Here giv ethis a read it should help make the right decision
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/f...rs-Guide-to-Keeping-Turtles-and-Fish-Together
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/f...rs-Guide-to-Keeping-Turtles-and-Fish-Together
Turtle with monster fish, possible?
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I have an Aussie Murray river turtle with a peacock bass in my 200g grow-out tank. They are happy together. The turtle chased the cichla a few times early on. They leave each other alone now.
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My buddy has a red eared slider in his thousand gallon tank with no issues. They all ignore each other. It sounds like that may be the exception to the rule though.
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I've seen mata mata kept with large cats before you might could look into that
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Turtles will usually pick on or eat the fish but sometimes with patience you get lucky. This is my florida softshell around 15" with 24-30" cats
the cats actually pick on him but theyve been together for over a year. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using MonsterAquariaNetwork App
FRT is probably the best suited turtle to keep with fish but i have the poors mans version lol
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Turtles will usually pick on or eat the fish but sometimes with patience you get lucky. This is my florida softshell around 15" with 24-30" cats
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Thanks for the pic, that looks awesome! Love the pack of TSN can wait until mine is that big
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Sorry for the reposts...but this softshell is also a female so she really doesnt have claws that could scratch the fish. I have a 6" spiny softshell male that has longer claws than her lol....also this was probably a bad idea to post pics. I am very lucky to have my group cohabitate with no issues my smaller softshell tears up anything in his tank so its a case by case scenario.
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I raised a Softshell turtle with my fish since it was silverdollar size. Its about 8" diameter now never bothers any of my fish. Eats pellets or whatever I feed the fish it eats.
