Can I Mix These Fish

[ganda]

can i mix these fish:fire eel, syndontis multipuntus, polypterus palmas plams, ctenopoma leopard, elegant knifefish, tinfoil barb, jewel cichlid, snakehead assam lal chag.

PS: my tank is 300 litres

 

[nmonks]

In a word, no.

300 litres is a good size, but not a gigantic tank. Some of these fish are gregarious; you don't keep one tinfoil barb but a school of them, and realistically that means at least 375 litres. Fire eels are difficult to feed and even keep alive, and Steatogenys elegans is far from easy, requiring fairly cool, oxygen-rich water similar to the fast-water streams it inhabits in the wild. Both make sense in single-species settings, possibly with other, carefully chosen tankmates added ONLY when the the eel or the knifefish are feeding and settled.

Ctenopoma acutirostre is a nice fish comparable to an angelfish in temperament, and will be taken apart by Hemichromis spp. Bichirs are easy targets for aggressive cichlids.

Synodontis multipunctatus needs hard, basic water and middling temperature; it has no place in a tank with soft water fish.

Cheers, Neale

can i mix these fish:fire eel, syndontis multipuntus, polypterus palmas plams, ctenopoma leopard, elegant knifefish, tinfoil barb, jewel cichlid, snakehead assam lal chag.
PS: my tank is 300 litres

 

[ganda]

In a word, no.

300 litres is a good size, but not a gigantic tank. Some of these fish are gregarious; you don't keep one tinfoil barb but a school of them, and realistically that means at least 375 litres. Fire eels are difficult to feed and even keep alive, and Steatogenys elegans is far from easy, requiring fairly cool, oxygen-rich water similar to the fast-water streams it inhabits in the wild. Both make sense in single-species settings, possibly with other, carefully chosen tankmates added ONLY when the the eel or the knifefish are feeding and settled.

Ctenopoma acutirostre is a nice fish comparable to an angelfish in temperament, and will be taken apart by Hemichromis spp. Bichirs are easy targets for aggressive cichlids.

Synodontis multipunctatus needs hard, basic water and middling temperature; it has no place in a tank with soft water fish.

Thanks for the advice but which of the fish out of them can i mix?

Cheers, Neale

can i mix these fish:fire eel, syndontis multipuntus, polypterus palmas plams, ctenopoma leopard, elegant knifefish, tinfoil barb, jewel cichlid, snakehead assam lal chag.
PS: my tank is 300 litres

 

[ganda]

Which of these can i mix

 

[ganda]

how much does it cost to run a jewel rekord 110, a jewel rio 240 and an aquaone aquareef 200 all light on for 5hrs a day with no mods done to tanks pumps, heaters on all day oh and the skimmer is on all day too.

Cheers

Please tell me in Great British Pounds!

 

[ZoddyZod]

how much does it cost to run a jewel rekord 110, a jewel rio 240 and an aquaone aquareef 200 all light on for 5hrs a day with no mods done to tanks pumps, heaters on all day oh and the skimmer is on all day too.

Cheers

Please tell me in Great British Pounds!

you'll need to know what your electricity company charges you in kw/h to calculate that.

 

[ganda]

how much does it cost to run a jewel rekord 110, a jewel rio 240 and an aquaone aquareef 200 all light on for 5hrs a day with no mods done to tanks pumps, heaters on all day oh and the skimmer is on all day too.

Cheers

Please tell me in Great British Pounds!

you'll need to know what your electricity company charges you in kw/h to calculate that.

Think it's 13p

 

[OldMan47]

The filters cost almost nothing to run since few use much more than 15 or 20 watts. You know the wattage so figure the heaters are on about half of the time and you know the light fixture wattage so figure about 20% more than the 5 hours of the wattage in the lighting tubes. The 20% is to account for the fact that the light ballasts are not running anywhere near ideal efficiency. A modern lighting ballast does not get as hot as an old fashioned one but still heats up. That heat is wasted energy. If you could find a ballast that ran at room temperature with no special cooling at all, you could just use the simple 5 hours of the lighting tubes wattage. I have yet to see one actually running cool though. Add it all up and you have an estimate of your daily power consumption. If you know what you pay for power and the number of days in your billing cycle, you should be able to come close with a cost estimate. You will certainly come closer than we will guessing it from this end.
I never really want to know in my home since I have lights over about 20 tanks averaging 6.5 hours a day, heat in about 10 of them and some kind of filter in every one of 26 tanks. If I ever find out I will probably find a home elsewhere for many of my fish.