Chaca Chaca

[nick.w]

Hey, i saw one of these and they r very cool..ive researched a bit about them and read the bit on the index. Just wondering can they go in my 30 gal wit my senegalus bichir?.......and it said they only need one good meal a week, wots a good meal
Getting live food wont b a prob i have a sunday job at LFS.

 

[CFC]

Chaca chace is really best left to a species tank, they dont compete well with other predators as their sedentry approach to hunting is disrupted by more mobile fish which often leads to them starving to death. They also have a strang ability to lower the pH of their tank to sometimes dangerous levels, no one is exactly sure how or why but it does happen as i have witnessed it myself, the pH in my Chaca tank droped to below 5! A 20g tank would be fine for a single Chaca chaca and its feeders.

A good meal would be one fish about half the size of the Chaca chaca once a week.