Tankmates with JARDINI (READ!!!)

[nitrofish1]

might be doing a limas shovelnose catfish for a tankmate for a jardini, or even a silver arowana.

 

[HunterX]

might be doing a limas shovelnose catfish for a tankmate for a jardini, or even a silver arowana.

there's a good chance your jardini will tear the silver up. Be warned.....

 

[ctoychik]

My Jardini ( 20" or so ) got along fine with my RTC ( about the same size ).
He leaves Birchirs alone but wont tolerate any fish that swims up in the water column.

Is your jar still around??? I would have thought RTC woulda munched your jar by now.

I add a little from my experience: my jar is beyond 8" now. Still no signs of aggression <hope it stays that way). The fact that it leaves with two arapaimas could be a factor lol. The other tank mate is bichir (surprised paimas did not munch him) and a longer-than-jar silver aro. So far so good - no torn fins or lost scales. Let's see when paimas are moved out to a bigger place, will the aggression start. I will update after paimas are moved out. I must admit that i am concerned for bichir (he is the only one i have) but i have two back-up silver aros

From the thread i think i tend to agree that it is luck mostly and may be strong current. Having an odd number of large fish also is a factor i.e. i kill him, but i get tired then the third one gets me.

 

[pwmin]

mine has reached the 10" mark and it's getting more and more aggressive (to the point of some chasing and a couple nipped fins), but it hasn't killed anything since the congo tetras quite a while ago. It messes with my gold saum, flagtail and pikes some, but not my BGK, polys or marbled goby.

 

[pwmin]

i had to move it to a tank with larger fish cuz it started messing up my gold saum and pikes

 

[ausarow]

hi, im from australia and i run a fish farm, we dont breed jardines but i know a guy that does and when he catches and keeps his fish among others in a fibreglass tank they will all fight until only one fish is left alive. what her found was that if he kept them in a shallow tank with a whole lot of weed shelter they would not fight. so if you would like to try keep them with other fish then try have a log and some weeds and some rocks in the tanks opposed to a clear open tank.
this seems to be the behaviour of the fish. other fish like mangrove jack for example will fight over shelter or a hidey hole as a territorial thing but jardini seem to peace out amongst a lot of cover. farmers found by removeing the shelter in the tanks with these mangrove jack fish they stopped killing each other. it would be good to know with people that have had some sucess with keeping jardini with other fish if they indeed had a lot of shelter or what? it may be the secret.

 

[greenterra]

hi, im from australia and i run a fish farm, we dont breed jardines but i know a guy that does and when he catches and keeps his fish among others in a fibreglass tank they will all fight until only one fish is left alive. what her found was that if he kept them in a shallow tank with a whole lot of weed shelter they would not fight. so if you would like to try keep them with other fish then try have a log and some weeds and some rocks in the tanks opposed to a clear open tank.
this seems to be the behavior of the fish. other fish like mangrove jack for example will fight over shelter or a hide hole as a territorial thing but Jardini seem to peace out amongst a lot of cover. farmers found by removing the shelter in the tanks with these mangrove jack fish they stopped killing each other. it would be good to know with people that have had some sucess with keeping jardini with other fish if they indeed had a lot of shelter or what? it may be the secret.

Interesting point you make ausarow. Maybe that is why I have had success so far with my Jar in a community. That and a little luck. This guy has been in this tank for 17 mths and is still going strong. He has been great, touch wood. He was about 16-17" at the time of vid about 3 mths ago. I put my success down to a few things. Driftwood arranged in a way that fish can swim in and around it all, I started him off with some large mature tank mates that he couldn't attack so he had to get used to tank mates and I have never fed him live fish. I believe in having no quick, flighty fish like SDs etc as this will entice a Jardini to attack IMO. You need fish that won't go nuts when the Jar enters their space and make the Jar feel threatened. I also only run a temp of no more then 24 degree Celsius = 75.2 degree Fahrenheit in this tank as Saratoga are known to spawn in winter(The only time they don't fight even in the wild).I believe if you can attain all this then there is a chance of success. So far I am one of the lucky few
p.s. the Jag is no longer in the tank now but only because I wanted to give him more room.
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[shiv]

Nice shooting and really nice fish

 

[Datnoid101]

I've kept many different fish with my jardinis. Never anything fatal.

Older pic of my jar and tsn pre gold coloration

 

[mrSW20]

i have a 7in Ailver Aro with a 6" Bargarius Yarelli and and i just put in the 10in jar ....fingers crossed so far so good!! pix's to come