Ctenolucius hujeta - Info

[Xray_chic]

As long as it doesn't fit in their mouth and it's a bottom dwelling fish, it's ok.

We have 5 at my work with corydoras.


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I have 3. I keep them with a rope fish, hoplo cat, and a pleco. I've had them kill a young peacock bass that was barely smaller and one ate a fish 3/4 it's size.
They pellet trained quickly. I just added pellets at the same time as the feeder guppies. I do miss the S shaped strike when they attacked the feeders though. They are very active feeders and start splashing at the surface when I open the lid.


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[ss720]

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I have 3. I keep them with a rope fish, hoplo cat, and a pleco. I've had them kill a young peacock bass that was barely smaller and one ate a fish 3/4 it's size.
They pellet trained quickly. I just added pellets at the same time as the feeder guppies. I do miss the S shaped strike when they attacked the feeders though. They are very active feeders and start splashing at the surface when I open the lid.


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I'm curious to this question, take Bolivian rams and apistogrammas.

They are fairly small, but they tend to spend their life's in the bottom half of the tank, do you think they would be viewed as food?

I mean some of the smaller females of the apistogramma family certainly would fit in the mouth of an adult, but given proper amount of food, would the hujeta's be stalking them?

I'm trying to rationalize the idea of adding the 5 hujeta's at my work to my tank at home.
I've been drooling over them ever since we got them.



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[Xray_chic]

Pretty sure my guys would either eat them or torment them to death. I would only put my rocket gars with fish larger than them, if any at all (I gave up). The bottom dwellers seem to do ok, but they hide unless feeding. They all live in a 60 cube.

The peacock bass they killed was too big to eat, but they couldn't resist chasing the shiny silver fish.

It seems others have had better luck. This is just my experience. Perhaps I have an aggressive group.

My rockets



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[Bonkripper7666]

Not sure where the info came from that C. Hujeta likes strong currents or who’s hujeta gar “loves” current
They DO NOT like current.
They like more still water with lots of vegetation and overhangs.
His C. Hujeta must of been sick and itchy.
They don’t normally like current and like the top of the water column almost exclusively.
Becarful what you follow on “care guides”
For these guys cause a lot of them are simply wrong.

 

[tlindsey]

Not sure where the info came from that C. Hujeta likes strong currents or who’s hujeta gar “loves” current
They DO NOT like current.
They like more still water with lots of vegetation and overhangs.
His C. Hujeta must of been sick and itchy.
They don’t normally like current and like the top of the water column almost exclusively.
Becarful what you follow on “care guides”
For these guys cause a lot of them are simply wrong.

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