Tank mates?

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MN_Rebel said:
^ Had a big green killed a young largemouth bass at same size.
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Really? I have never, but I usually introduce my fish into the tank at the same time. My biggest problem had been largemouth bass, there has always been one that was dominant and stresses the other ones out. I had one LMB get sick and ended up loosing all of his tail fin. It eventually grew back but still was a first for me.


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Thanks guys, sounds like an LMB is my best option, Thanks for all of your help, maybe if he calms down after this, i can put him up with the other fish again.
 
I wouldn't put anything with him. He's pretty much indicated he doesn't like anyone in his territory, hasn't he? And a LMB isn't immune, since some of them can be quite docile. Not to mention a LMB will just add excess bioload, being it's a fish that will quickly outgrow the tank and have to be moved anyway.
If he's that aggressive, say you get a LMB that will fight back, they may just fight until they extensively injure each other, and then you either have one or two dead fish, or two really crappy looking beat up fish. I'd rather have one nice looking greenie, than two horribly beat up fish of any species.
 
ShadowBass said:
I wouldn't put anything with him. He's pretty much indicated he doesn't like anyone in his territory, hasn't he? And a LMB isn't immune, since some of them can be quite docile. Not to mention a LMB will just add excess bioload, being it's a fish that will quickly outgrow the tank and have to be moved anyway.
If he's that aggressive, say you get a LMB that will fight back, they may just fight until they extensively injure each other, and then you either have one or two dead fish, or two really crappy looking beat up fish. I'd rather have one nice looking greenie, than two horribly beat up fish of any species.
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Keep the green alone! You should have learned by now that its a bad idea to give him tankmates!
 
Well, thanks anyway, if any one thinks of a small, thick scaled species that wold be just aggressive enough to make the green leave him alone, I would like to hear about it, but one more question, just thought of rapheal catfish, striped rapheal are armored catfish aren't they?
 
Rapheal catfish sucks.....you don't see them very much so why keeping them?
 
My husband had 2 raphaels years ago that he didn't even discover were still alive until he moved the tanks. They'd been in there for years and no one knew it. So yeah, not very interesting.

And anyway, a persistent greenie can chew up even an armored catfish, same as a cichlid could.
 
Honestly if you want some more movement, just try putting some kind of disposable schooling fish in there that you don't care about being eaten. Just make sure they're clean of course and don't get feeders from the pet store.

With my greenie I just keep netting mosquitofish out of my pond and putting more in as they disappear. I have so many mosquitofish though, I don't care. They're already food for the sunfish in my pond and their population stays pretty steady.

Decorate the tank with lots of hiding spots that he can't fit in and/or plants to break up his view so they don't get eaten all at once.
 
I would only recommend keeping Green Sunfish in a tank 55g or above the best natives to keep with them are equall sized or bigger stonecats, bullheads, golden shiners (ina group), and creek chubs or fallfish.
 
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