Tiny fish with monsters?

[guppy]

I have also seen large silver aros, 20+" kept with neons and like sized tetras but I have no idea how stable the tank was.

 

[HiGhTiMeZ]

lol very nice pics del!!!!
i specially loved that one with the luohan in it looking down on that tsn? hahaha thats so random.

anyway back to topic, different fish - different personalities, MOST big fish will eat smaller fish but there have been quite a few hobbyists who were successful in com-ing preds with smaller fish. Hell ive even seen Large red bellied piranha cohabitting with cardinal tetras.

 

[RadleyMiller]

theres a video here of an aro with a school of small tiger barbs, looks amazing...wonder how it was done

Its like when you see a pic of 12 aros in a small tank. Put the fish in, take the picture, and remove the fish back into their own tanks.

 

[Vcygnus1]

No, that guy with the aro and tiger barbs said he just replaced the tigers as they were eaten. SO if you are willing to replace the fish as they disappear it would look very cool.

 

[Eupterus]

Boston public aquarium seemed to do this.

There was a fully grown red tail catfish among many smaller species as well as a silver arowana all in the same tank. I wonder if it has to do with tank size?. Huge tank and then they will bother less with chasing down smaller fish.

 

[WyldFya]

People shouldn't go by rare cases, but by what normally happens most of the time.

Sure, you could get lucky but there is a far greater chance that you will not.

Every instance of large aro/neon or cardinal tetra combinations I have heard of success. It really isn't that rare. I have seen it in person several times, and they were said to have coexisted for at least 1 year at the shortest for the ones I had seen.

 

[rottbo]

The Omaha zoo has a huge tank with a few large aros (30"+) and some huge RTC (40"+) plus some huge niger and some TSN but there are some root structures that are way to dense fpr these large fish to fit in and in the root structure there is a large school of Fire Mouths (probally 100 of them) this is a very cool set up but I believe that the only reasont that they survive is because of thecoever that they have.. You never see the FM's leave the root structure

 

[Killerhap]

Every instance of large aro/neon or cardinal tetra combinations I have heard of success. It really isn't that rare. I have seen it in person several times, and they were said to have coexisted for at least 1 year at the shortest for the ones I had seen.

If the small fish is too fast for the bigger fish to catch, then it may not be an issue.

But, I wouldn't do it, hey he can try and report back after a few months.

 

[WyldFya]

Neons and cardinals are not that fast of a fish. Arowanas can be fast, and easily fast enough to catch a fish that moves at the speed a neon does. When they get large enough they simply stop hunting fish of this size.

 

[Lupin]

I've keep CL with my Jar for 6 months with no real problem.

I also keep loaches with my aro. What makes it possible is that they have blades under their eyes which makes defense possible against predation. Believe me, I had observed the aro failing to chomp the yoyos when the yoyos pull out the blades.
The only danger there is that if the aro managed to eat the loaches, its throat would be entangled to the blades(if ever the loaches pull them out) thus killing the aro.