I have a 150 gallon with a baby Black Ghost Knife thats about 3-3½ inches and 2 1-1½ inch Electric Blue Acaras. I am wondering what other tank mates I could put in with these fish. Im planning on buying anothet Electric Blue Acara in the next week for the tank. The tank is 6 feet long 18 inches deep and 24 inches tall. Any suggestions will be appreciated.
Black Ghost Knife tank mates
- Thread starter Voramis
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you have a lot of choices... if you are doing three EBAs, look at larger tetras, silver dollars, geophagus, etc. I'd stay away from larger / meaner cichlids , most barbs and anything that might nip the BGK's tail. On the flip side of that, the Knife will be able to catch and eat small fish , so no guppies, small rasboras, etc.
I read on another forum that some of the bigger corydoras would work because the bgk would not eat them because of spines the corys have. Im guessing this is not true but a firm answer would be nice. The tank also has live plants so I could not add anything that would eat them.
Cories should work (not the dwarf variety), banjo cats, most plecos, and Rafael / armored cats would be ok.
You have a big enough tank to stop aggression so I think you’ll Ben fine.
They have all been added to the tank in the last 2 days so none are fully settled in. They seem to be getting along fine, the stay together and dont seem to be agressive towards each or any other fish in the tank.
Give it lots of hardscape to hide in. My foot long BGK feeds like a scavenger more than a predator. It has never eaten any of it's tank mates and the smallest tankmate was 2 inch, a baby GT that has since grown.Still I won't bet on nano fish.
