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[NicholasC]

I am looking for a good fish to have in with a 23cm barrmundi and 4x around 20cm black bream?

I have been talking to steve about a arowana but lack of funds kinda blows that out of the water, and i could sell my possessions and rent out my room to back packers to afford a alligator gar but then what would i do with something that big in 1 years time?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[Andrew]

how wide is the tank?

[NicholasC]

1.3 foot so it is kinda small i guess in width. But plenty for room for another i just get sick of seeing alot of empty uninhabited space.

[alec]

an archer fish?
or
a sleepy cod? :?

[NicholasC]

Yeah archer would go good and is still native, i forgot to mention it had black bream and barra so we want to keep it native

How big can archers grow? or cods?

[alec]

Archers, most species grow around 30cm

the sleepy cod can grow around 45cm

so they grow big enough so that when the bara grows to around 100cm that they won't fit in its mouth

sleepy cods are also native

cheers alec

[NicholasC]

i just need to buy one about 30cm or so because the barra is 27cm, i think Steve sells them ill have a look at his list.

[Tucunare]

yeah i sell em though not that big

[piscevore]

Barra are not a good fish for a 6 ft tank. As a minimum for an adult you want a 12x6x2.5 (seen as adults can reportedly grow to 2 meters which is about 6ft according to fishbase at http://www.fishbase....ary.php?id=346), so think about saving up for that a tank or a pond that is heated, or get rid of the barra now if you cant provide them with adequate requirements for the duration of their lives, because it is very difficult to get rid of a large fish as not many people can house them. You might also find that the bream will become quite nasty so watch out for that.

[NicholasC]

We have had the barra since about december last year and athough he has grow we dont try to feed him up to grow, i have been told a goldfish a day will make him huge but we just feed him this frozen food mix and worm and even the tanks yabbie which he decieded was food

The bream develop a peaking order so the biggest is the leader, but now that the barra is bigger he is the leader (they adopted him as the commander )

Many fish grow huge and we are building a aquaponics system right now that will have a HUGE rain water tank just for fish that will connect to the system (full heated of course).

Also if he gets too big before then everyone on the forum is invited to a big barra cook off it will also be his funeral but i am sure it will be a good one

[piscevore]

The cookv off might upset some people here... But ill be the first one there
The problem will be finding a barbacue big enough

[Peckoltia]

Tank raised barra usually taste like mush, their muscles don't develop properly. You will need to throw in a couple big pumps and get him swimming against the current!

[NicholasC]

OK but what to cook him with? batter, just plain, Herbs?

and we have the eheim pushing the water to one side of the tank along a horizontal strip, he swims against it and loves it

[FishGal]

You lot should be ashamed of yourselves lol...this is your pet your talking about!! :wink:

[NicholasC]

It was a joke i coudn't eat him unless it was a last option!

or someone had a really good recipie hehe

[studzy6]

I could, My Salmontail makes me hungry everytime I walk past the tank :roll:

lol

[NicholasC]

serious? you can eat salmon tail catfish?

[keenas]

Its sold as silver cobler in the shops.

[NicholasC]

I have had that before... strange you think they would just call it salmon tail? Is silver cobbler its other name?

[keenas]

If you seen salmon tailed catfish for sale in a shop would you buy it? I wouldnt. We caught these by the hundreds in Kununurra and always through them back as they werent as good as barra.