Tankmates with JARDINI (READ!!!)
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This is a photo of my 18 Jardini with a pacifier in his mouth. The pacifier is a short length of silicone air tubing, which the fish pulled from the top of the 180-gallon aquarium home. I leave it in the fish tank and from time to time, the Jardini picks up the air tubing in his mouth and swims with it sometimes for hours. I am not saying the fish is any less aggressive toward its tank mates but when he has his pacifier he is very calm and the other fish swim normally.
Wow. I just bought a Jardidi today. He is about 3 to 4 inches. I have no previous experience with this species. I saw him at the lfs and he was missing an eye. He has been there for a few weeks, and wasnt selling. I felt for him. No one else wants him because he was deformed. I asked the owner what he wanted for him and he said $20.( he was originally $60). I took him home, all proud of myself for saving this poor thing from certain death, and plopped him in my 55 community. I figured he could chill in there for a few months untill he was big enough to go in the 220. THEN I read this thread. I think I might just throw him in the 220, before he can kill anything, and he can be an expensive snack for my marbled pim. Unless anyone wants a free jardini that has one eye!!
yes the jardini can be very aggressive.
I had one that i kept up to 18" long. it killed my parrot cichlid which was 5" long, that was when the jardini reached 12". They had live together since the jardini was 3". It was starting to beat up on my gibbicep and my syno. decorus, so i sold it to someone.
My mate had a jardini with 2 large oscars - one day the jardini suddenly turned on them and killed both of them.
So do select tankmates carefully.
I had one that i kept up to 18" long. it killed my parrot cichlid which was 5" long, that was when the jardini reached 12". They had live together since the jardini was 3". It was starting to beat up on my gibbicep and my syno. decorus, so i sold it to someone.
My mate had a jardini with 2 large oscars - one day the jardini suddenly turned on them and killed both of them.
So do select tankmates carefully.
i am now keeping 5 jars about to be 6... and only want one, but i'm hoping this way i can later keep the less agrssive one... 4 are 3'', these are in a growing 850 liter tank with a 4'' silver some dats and some more raryties, 1 is 4'', and is in another same sized tank with 4, 5'' silver a temensis, a hujeta and some more... the other one is 5'' arriving thursday... hope to put it in the cichild growout tank with some doviis and midas and jags atc..
just hope i can get a less agressive one... i really wanna do an all aros comunity tank
still need -a black, because mine died...
- a leix. very hard to come by here
- an african, even harder
- and an asian. gonna order an RTG soon, expensive, but one more dream comming true... eehehhe
something like this pic of members here at MFK, but with one of each...
just hope i can get a less agressive one... i really wanna do an all aros comunity tank
still need -a black, because mine died...
- a leix. very hard to come by here
- an african, even harder
- and an asian. gonna order an RTG soon, expensive, but one more dream comming true... eehehhe
something like this pic of members here at MFK, but with one of each...
Anythingfish;769484; said:This is a photo of my 18 Jardini with a pacifier in his mouth. The pacifier is a short length of silicone air tubing, which the fish pulled from the top of the 180-gallon aquarium home. I leave it in the fish tank and from time to time, the Jardini picks up the air tubing in his mouth and swims with it sometimes for hours. I am not saying the fish is any less aggressive toward its tank mates but when he has his pacifier he is very calm and the other fish swim normally.
this is too funny
tryed moving it around to see if it goes to get it? ehehehdamn my jar almost got killed by my parriots and they are like 3 inches lolz and the jars pushing 6
JARS ARE UNPREDICTABLE...THERE'S SCARS ON MY TSN HYBRID ONCE IN AWHILE AND THE ONLY OTHER FISH IN THE TANK IS THE JAR....THE JAR IS 20" AND THE HYBRID IS 10"....
BUT I STILL LIKE MY JAR...BASTARD =P
BUT I STILL LIKE MY JAR...BASTARD =P
Thanks for the info I just purchased a jardini and have him with a silver but I think I will split them up before I have to flush a dead siver domn the cyclone tunel
Last year I tried making a aro community by adding 9 silvers at 3" and 6 jardines at 3" in a 55 gal. tank. What i noticed was that the silvers fought with only silvers and jardines fought with only jardines. at the end it was "only the strong surive".even with over feeding, they still fought like gladiators. there was 1 jardine and 1 silver left. they didn't bother eachother after that. they lived for 1 year until i fed them a bad batch of live feeders. what had happened was that i put in about 20 comets (the usual) then the next morning i found that all the comets where dead. so the dieses that the comets had transfered to the aros cause of the ones they ate. so now i have a 125 gal with three silvers at 6" and one jardine at 3". all living peacefully.going to add my datnoid when it reaches 5".
