Confusion

[leongreenway]

Hi,

I have discussed on these forums mixing Red tailed Black shark fish with Paradise fish and various Cyclids, alot of people have said they are not really compatible, however I have found an interesting page on this website

My Webpage

can anyone explain...please

 

[Erised]

I'm afraid I'm not much of a help, seeing as I cant clear up the confusion here. I can however tell you I do not trust that website at all. According to them, you're able to house them with SAP (South American Puffers), which I can not recommend. The fish will end up with nipped fins if not worse.

Also:

Note: This is a rule based search which makes certain assumptions based on characteristics including size, temperament, temperature and pH. As with all advice, please use common sense before combining any two species

It seems to me that the website uses signs of aggression and size to put fish together, meaning that you Can end up with things that do not match at all.

 

[leongreenway]

Thanks Erised

what setup have you got ?

 

[Erised]

which one out of 8 do you mean?
I've got:

5 Gallon:
corydoras fry hatching tank (about 50 in there now, less than a week old)

12 Gallon:
2 dwarf puffers

15 Gallon (brackish):
5 bumblebee gobies

15 Gallon:
1 chinese algae eater (he'll have to move when getting too big)

20 Gallon:
corydoras out grow tank (about 80 till a 100 in here now, aging between 3 weeks and 2 months)

40 Gallon:
1 common plec (moving into 75G when getting bigger)
1 sailfin plec (moving into 75G when bigger, but will get too big for this as well)
7 zebra danios

55 Gallon:
6 black neons
5 cardinal tetras
5 ember tetras
5 peppered corydoras
1 siamese algae eater
2 banjo catfish

75 Gallon (Family tank):
a whole lot of guppies
2 platies
1 bristle nose plec
7 cardinal tetras
1 peppered corydoras (soon to be upped to 5)

 

[nc_nutcase]

Those compatibility charts are rarely if ever accurate. I'm not sure how they work but they obviously aren't well thought out and reviewed. I looked at the one you posted... it says that Redtail Sharks are compatible with themselves, then in the profile for Redtail Shark it says they are intolerable of their own species... The first two fish on the list were Green Terror and Midas. At adult maturity, either of these other fish would terrorize the Redtail Shark.

 

[leongreenway]

Erised
I am impressed, got any pics ?

 

[Erised]

Good question that is I think I do somewhere, but only old ones ... I'm not much of a picture person I'll have to get some new ones tomorrow or so.

Just had a look for the old picturs, but my mum (who takes about 700 photos on a daily base, then sends them in to 2 different tv channels, at least 4 websites etc ) has burned all the photos onto dvds a couple of weeks ago. So I'm not having any luck finding them.

I'll ask my mum to take some pics tomorrow, and then upload them to this site when I've got time

 

[leongreenway]

cool look forward