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hey, i want to raise an arrowana (dragonfish) with some sort of other fish. i would raise it with an oscar, but they are very prone to hith and many meds cant go with arrowanas. any ways i need some suggestions on cichlids that dont get diseases..hardy and the such. thanx

Hey you know that you will need to have a 300 gallon tank for that fish eventually right?

Adam

Hi all . good point tropical pond would be better option!!!!!! in the uk were trying to get code of practise on sale of so called 'tankbusters ' Im sure you are aware of the size of full grown arowanas ! .Many fish shops in the uk are happy to sell large cichlids and the likes to new fish keepers with small tanks not knowing the final size of a full grown adult.Many zoos and local aqariums wont take large fish any more, people like me end up buying more tanks to house unwanted oscars etc.Provided you know what your taking on they are awesome 'little' fish
GOOD LUCK.

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yah, those suckers get big. the silver arrowana would get bigger than 4 feet in an aquarium. although more expensive here in frisko, i would get an australian one, which would only get to a size of about 3 feet when fully grown. the green, red and black arrowana cost around 200-300 bux and , unfortunatly, i dont got that kind of money. i would get a pond since they could get that gill disease when they dont have turning room, except when it gets cold (everyday) in san francisco, the arrowana would hate it. especially with cats and raccons trying to get at it...but the arrowana could eat it if it was full grown.. (i would let it too...damm cat keeps pissin in our dirt!) but it would be great to get a pond..take up that free time i got.

anyways....what other fish can i keep with an arrowana besides oscars and bottom feeders??

There is a LFS here that has a 1000 gallon tank that they have a full grown arowana in and it is in with clown loaches, tin foil barbs, bala sharks, upsidedown catfish etc.. there is even a soft shell turtle in there... now these are all full grown and the clown loaches are nearly 20 years old but they are in there.

Adam

1000 gallon tank
Man what I could do with a tank that size

Id have to build another room for it with a concrete floor.

Oh well I will keep dreaming

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o man...1000 gal tank? i would love one of those...maybe i could try to gut the bottom floor of the house to get one of those... i would swim wit tha fish!

here http://www.fishprofiles.com/profiles/others/arowana.asp is a profile of the silver arrowana, and as you can see, it says they are rather peaceful fish, but they are predatory and will eat small fish. so basically any larger rather peaceful fish should be fine so long as your tank is big enough. i don't see why you couldn't get an oscar with it. yes, they are prone to hith disease, but (from my research) this is usually due to an improper diet (too many feederfish/goldfish) or poor water quality. if you feed them right, and keep the water in good condition, there shouldn't be a problem. not all oscars will get hith disease, and as with most other diseases, hith head is preventable.

holy friggin moly! u brought this topic back from the dead! eh....thanx i guess, good to know that people still read and help out old post.
...just some info: i wouldnt really trust that website with the fish info you get. most of the profiles are wrong about the fish. a good place you can mostly trust..not all would be www.aquariacentral.com

i think most of the profiles are fairly correct. why would you say that? not trying to say you're wrong, just curious as to the reason you would say that. i'm the kind of person that can't just accept something as fact, i need proof . i just want to know your reason so i can decide for myself. the only real place i can see them being incorrect is on the potential size of several of the fish. otherwise, i'd say the info (not the info added by other users on the profile) is mostly correct.

i wanted to mention also that i do visit the site you mentioned quite frequently.

btw, guess i did bring this topic back, as you said, from the dead sorry about that, i didn't look at the date of the other posts. haven't been to this site in quite a while, as i'm sure you can tell. next time, i'll try to pay more attention.

hey, no prob, no need to be sorrie. im glad you bring back old subjects. most of them either havent been answered or havent had complete answers for the questions. fishprofiles do have very, eh...inaccurate sizes of the fish and the other thing i have to say would be a bad thing is to listen to the advise of the 'suitable tankate' button. for example, click the oscar profile. they recommed the oscar can be kept with many other agressive cichlids..
the wolf
the JD
the jaguar
the texas..
and they recommend some really peaceful fish too...
the blue gourami
bumble bee goby (brackish)
dwarf gourami
paradise fish
they also recommed some african cichlids...which PH dont match.

although, the other things are right, like the ph, and tempeture. but that should be sort of known for most tropical fish..except african cichlids..which some ppl buy and place them with neutral ph fish.

besides the fish tankmates and size (which is REALLY important) that website is pretty good. im glad you questioned me because i might give out wrong and baddd info, and someone will be there to correct it.

i will definitely agree about the suitable tankmates button. i've clicked on it a few times and have been dumbfounded at the replies. to be completely honest, i mainly go there for the forums. i left here for a while and went there because their cichlid forum gets more replies per day than the one on this site, which seems to be geared more towards oscars. i love oscars, don't get me wrong, but i also like to talk about a wide variety of other cichlids also. i think most of the members of that site realize some of the errors in the profiles. you can get much better info in the forums. i'm going to try, from now on, to keep checking both sites' forums and stay current in both. not like i have too much free time on my hands or anything .

they have a form there? maybe i should check it out. i lurk in aquariacentral.com, and in arofanatic.com heh, time for another one.

http://aquarium.proboards.com/

here is another forum page which is just starting out, if you are interested. i believe they have only 10 members as of now, but are growing fast. i believe clothahump may have already posted about this, unless that was on aquariacentra forums. i post on at least 4 different forums and get confused sometimes. check it out if you are interested.

and yes, fishprofiles does have a forum with some very good info from experienced fishkeepers. definitely worth checking out.