Snakeheads and arrowana

[Joe23]

Hi everyone I'm relatively new to the monster keeping side of tropical fish and need a bit of help please. I have a 5Lx2Hx1w tank with sand , large piece of bog wood and a few artificial plants , i started with a red tiger Oscar 6" then two pacu6" about 6 month ago and are doing great and about 2 month ago I acquired what I think is a rainbow snakehead7" and a flowerhorn cichlid 4" but iv got the chance of arrowana that is roughly same size as the snakehead and I would just like to ask if anyone has any experience with mixing snakeheads and arrowanas.
Any advice would be very helpful

 

[Allan01230]

Snakehead bad choice for that tank as they are too aggressive for the arrowanna, also they are all illegal in the states so not too many of us will know about them. Pacus will out grow that tank shortly also.

 

[Bderick67]

Unless you have plans to upgrade your tank size, you need not consider arowana as part of your stock. With a tank that is only 1 foot wide most all of your stock is on the verge of being to big for that tank of yours.

 

[onetouch2many]

your tank is 5' L and only 1'...

 

[J.Lake]

yuup no aro in that tank. Seems like its stocked pretty good

 

[RareExoticFish]

Snakeheads are a bad choice for any community tank so i would say remove the snakehead and go ahead with the arowana.
BUT i'm not done, right now your tank is extremely overstocked. You have an oscar, two pacus, a rainbow snakehead and a flowerhorn. NOT
one of those fish would fit in there long term.
Oscar - 12"
Pacus - 3' ( but get really wide and are known for busting tanks )
Snakehead - 8" ( all though they are small they will kill most things with them )
Flowerhorn - 12"
arowana - 3'
So basically you are looking at buying a 600+ gallon tank for these fish.
P.s the stock is fine without the snakehead.

 

[arowanaryan]

you could probably keep the snakehead oscar and flower horn in that tank..... The snakehead will most likely kill one of them at some point though... your tank is to small for apace or are though man.

 

[HungDang]

with that tank and the snake-head being a rainbow snake-head, you can do a snake-head tank with a few more rainbow snake head!

 

[jlnguyen74]

Snakehead bad choice for that tank as they are too aggressive for the arrowanna, also they are all illegal in the states so not too many of us will know about them. Pacus will out grow that tank shortly also.

If you don't know about snakehead, how do you know it's bad choice and too aggressive for arowana?

Snakeheads are a bad choice for any community tank so i would say remove the snakehead and go ahead with the arowana.
BUT i'm not done, right now your tank is extremely overstocked. You have an oscar, two pacus, a rainbow snakehead and a flowerhorn. NOT
one of those fish would fit in there long term.
Oscar - 12"
Pacus - 3' ( but get really wide and are known for busting tanks )
Snakehead - 8" ( all though they are small they will kill most things with them )
Flowerhorn - 12"
arowana - 3'
So basically you are looking at buying a 600+ gallon tank for these fish.
P.s the stock is fine without the snakehead.

Do you have any idea how big is a 600gal tank?

you could probably keep the snakehead oscar and flower horn in that tank..... The snakehead will most likely kill one of them at some point though... your tank is to small for apace or are though man.

How do you know snakehead will most likely kill one of them at some point? Have you had snakehead?

 

[arowanaryan]

*sigh*.... No John I have not had a snakehead although it is well documented that they have a habit of killing just about any tank mates even after being with them for a while.

Why are you simply trying to oppose the position that EVERYONE has tried to take?