Rainbow Shark Helppp

[Mo_loves_fish]

What is a Good group number to get them in?

 

[OohFeeshy]

Ones, unless you want a bloodbath. Which still might happen anyway...

 

[WILDER]

Need a 40gal for that type of shark.

 

[joss81]

yeah i have just one and she is only just tolerant of certain other fish, especially my silver dollar. she used to be in a tank with my elephant nose and they would just fight furiously and constantly so i had to seperate them. apart from being very fat i dont have any other trouble with my shark!

 

[Mo_loves_fish]

thanks i know what they need and im not putting them in my 29 callon i have a 120 gallon that im putting these rainbow sharks in. So i would like to know a good school amount. NOTICE im only puting just these in the tank and they are actually quite tolerant of eachor in a tank together at my LFS.

 

[phlawed]

yeah i have just one and she is only just tolerant of certain other fish, especially my silver dollar. she used to be in a tank with my elephant nose and they would just fight furiously and constantly so i had to seperate them. apart from being very fat i dont have any other trouble with my shark!

I beleive the larger the school the better, but the smallest is almost guranteed to get picked on alot. I think the rainbow shark fall under the 1 or 6+ rule. But I might be wrong. I know i tried to pair up a male and female once and the smaller female was dead the next morning. Bad idea, dont try it

 

[@ombomb]

DO NOT PUT MORE THAN ONE IN YOUR TANK.

Forget what your fish shop do, the conditions are COMPLETELY different. In a small sale tank the fish are there for a short period, have no time / space to establish a territory and therefore can be crammed in like that TEMPORARILY. In a settled environment their behaviour will be completely different as they have the time to form a territory which they will defend aggressively.

 

[dwarfgourami]

DO NOT PUT MORE THAN ONE IN YOUR TANK.

Forget what your fish shop do, the conditions are COMPLETELY different. In a small sale tank the fish are there for a short period, have no time / space to establish a territory and therefore can be crammed in like that TEMPORARILY. In a settled environment their behaviour will be completely different as they have the time to form a territory which they will defend aggressively.

This point is so important that somebody ought to write a pinned topic on it. Time and again, posters want to base their stocking on what they have seen at the shop, and do not realise how different the circumstances are- couldn't have been put better than above. Add to that, the fact that fish seen at a shop are mostly juveniles, and that their behaviour there is not guide to adult behaviour.

afraid I cannot pronounce of the possibility of maintaining several rainbows in a large enough tank, no experience- but noone should ever base their stocking on shop stocking.

 

[Mo_loves_fish]

well i have had luck with 3 before in my 29 gallon with other fish in there. nothing happned. i also had cories and the little black shark with the red fins i had like 2 of those. nothing ever happened. I read some where that likethey each nee there own "territory" or basicaly a hiding spot fot the daytime. And my LFS is not a pet store. its a fish store. And its not very popular. He keeps fish to standards of what they need. I asked him about it. Never Had a "blood bath"

Ok, Ok. Since none of you had real proof i did some research.

http/species.fishindex.com/species_3233epalzeorhynchos_frenatum_rainbow_shark.html

Web link of where i got this info from. Good Site^^^^
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Epalzeorhynchos frenatum (Rainbow Shark)
Class: Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes)

Order: Cypriniformes (carps, minnows, algae eaters, suckers, loaches)

Family: Cyprinidae

Scientific Name: Epalzeorhynchos frenatum

Other Scientific Name(s): Epalzeorhynchus frenatus, Epalzeorhynchos frenatus, Labeo frenatus, Labeo munensis, Labeo erythrurus

Common Name: Rainbow Shark

Other Common Names: Rainbow sharkminnow

Distribution: Asia: Mekong, Chao Phraya and Xe Bangfai basins (Ref. 27732) and Maeklong basin (Ref. 28024).

Diet: They clean the bottom of the tank and all the surfaces, eating algae and flake foods that were missed by the others. They appreciate an algae tablet every so often if kept in a cleaner (i.e. less algae-overrun) tank. They will eat prepared foods in most forms (flake, wafer, tablet) and are not very picky.

Temperament: They do chase each other every now and then, but if you have enough live plants and ornaments that they can hide from each other, they do fine. When they do fight, all they do is slide up beside each other and bump back and forth, butting heads, then butting tails. They never seem to do any physical damage to each other or to the other fish. If kept in large groups or singly, they do fine. But, if kept in a group of 3 or less, one will pick on the other two.

Other Comments: They prefer to have a cave or a tunnel to hide in


so think ill get like 6 and some other stuff. Ill get them all around the same size. and give them each there own cave. if problems occour ill split them.

ill keep you updated on how this works

 

[kramers]

I've got 2 in my tank and have never had a problem with them fighting each other or any other fish.

 

[@ombomb]

120 Gallon:
8 Albino Rainbow Sharks
4 Black Red Finned Sharks

Well I think that's a recipe for disaster.

IMO the info you have posted is complete junk and the link doesn't work. Copying and pasting info from a website isn't "PROOF", if it is then I can copy and paste conflicting info from a wide range of other websites including it's entry on the fish index from THIS FORUM...

 

[Mo_loves_fish]

ITS FROM FISH INDEX .COM and all the effing fish are doing fine right now. if u read my other post. i have a back up plan. wehere as i can always spereate them.

 

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Woohoo, one site saying you won't end up with a bloodbath. What a lot of proof, I'm sure I can find sites that say a great community setup would be a male betta community, a few fahakas and a TSN to clean the bottom.

 

[piper]

Mo, it just that this topic comes up alot, and we have seen many posts of people trying to get a group to share the aggression.

But once they start to mature it always seems to end the same way.

aka your fish getting hurt

 

[trace1]

ITS FROM FISH INDEX .COM and all the effing fish are doing fine right now. if u read my other post. i have a back up plan. wehere as i can always spereate them.

no offence but i think that was pretty rude, if you were gona do it anyway why bother to ask if it will work ???
people on here have tried to give you good sound advice & at the end of the day u had no intension of listening to it
personally i don't know anything about rainbow sharks, but i would be inclined to listen to the good experienced people on here