Tankmates with JARDINI (READ!!!)

[Hover408]

Thank you for the helpful info. My arrow is about 10 inches now. He use to get along with everyone but now he is starting to chase my datnoid around. But whats weird is he doesnt do anything else to any of my other fish just the datnoid.

 

[Cammo X]

I have my jar in with a 25cm Sooty grunter and my jar is about 30-35cm, Jar had a bit of a go at him and had strikes at the sooty but now after bout a week they are perfect and i changed around the tank and everything so its all new and looking better than eva! i also have 2 plecs 3 bullrout in with my jar all getting along fine.

Cammo X

 

[mferrufino]

If the Jardini is larger then 8inches, how big does the tank need to be?

 

[balton777]

I agree with you Steve about them being aggressive and also the tank mates you suggest. I think you started a very good thread.

I found that the larger the tank the less aggressive they become.

I have only owned three ever.

I have all three still alive today. All three are 10 years or more. One is a cull that I never had the heart to destroy (He was sold as a juvenile to me as a Scleropages leichardti). He was in a chinese fish store on the top row where the clerk had to use a ladder to get him. I questioned the owner if he really was a Scleropages leichardti and he assured me he was so I took him. He was very small at about 31/2 inches and turned out to be a jardini.......oh well.

They show no aggression to any of my fish in the 15k. I believe its because they have the freedom to swim away from other fish. Neoprodigy has just put up some video of the 15k they are in. You will see them swimming in
15,000 gallon Tank Video Series #2 - 2/5. The brycons and Dorados are all
16" to 24". The other aros are Asian Red Tail Goldens and Asian Greens (22" to 26"; and Silvers (24" to 38". There are at least 15 Aros in the tank.

If you look at the 15k videos you will see the fish that are compatible with jardinis.

I also am adding a few pics now of them and tankmates.

You sir are one lucky sob haha.

 

[Steve_89]

If the Jardini is larger then 8inches, how big does the tank need to be?

I would be looking into getting a 180g

 

[nitrofish1]

so it says in the beginning that they would mix well with a giant gourami, but this all depends on the individual specimen? but would a jar be ok with a limas shovel nose catfish? something that wouldnt pay attention to the jar?

 

[Hot Slime]

so it says in the beginning that they would mix well with a giant gourami, but this all depends on the individual specimen? but would a jar be ok with a limas shovel nose catfish? something that wouldnt pay attention to the jar?

It could work with a lima shovel nose but it mostly depends on the jar. I've tried plecos once with my jar thinking that since the plecos a bottom dweller the jar will ignore it and since the pleco doesn't eat the same kind of food as the jar then there wouldn't be any aggression directed to the pleco at feeding time. Well it didn't work the jar started attacking the pleco and I had to remove it.

 

[nitrofish1]

well my quandry with this is that, id let the lima get large enough to where it would be big enough to where the jardini wouldnt think to mess with it, since i read they wont really go for fish that are much larger than it, but then i knew that the lima would think of the jar as a snack, an expensive snack......

 

[nitrofish1]

i was thinking that maybe a large pacu would do the trick for a tankmate. since i could add a jar when the pacu was large and not worry about it getting eaten, but then again it would detract from the jardini. i may just do a solo jardini and not worry about this problem lol.

 

[mak17bue]

I have my jardini with 3 peacock bass and a couple red tails. he nips every now and then but so far so good.