Fish to house with my 28 inch freshwater common snook

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Joeisnewhere

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1000 gallon pool pond. Three snook one 20 inches one 25 biggest one 28. Any monster fish that i can house with these guys that they wont get eaten by them or will bully the snook. Send your suggestions 😀
 
welcome to MFK! :headbang2

one of my personal favorite "true" Monster fish would be the barramundi, native to Australia, and have a similar shape to snooks. I find them very personable and remind me of chitala ornata or lopis with their funny long face shape when you view them from the front.

though I am unsure how aggressive they are towards other fish, they are definitely tanks of fish that I doubt most fish would mess with.

their max sizes and tank size also can be put into speculation but I believe a 1000g can suffice for an extremely long period of time

I think some catfish also fit the standard of such a large pool like tiger shovelnoses or big ripsaws, would probably stray away from tigrinus though, as they have many "bitable" parts like their thin flag tails and fins
 
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Honestly I have always seen silver and black arowanA to be good community fish. Just stay away from jardini. Of course for this to succeed you would have to find a already grown arowanA as well as have some safeguards in place to keep the arowanA from bailing out. Another possibility could be peacock bass? They seem to be more predatory than aggressive. You would have to check with some of the OG mfk'ers around here on which kind, but they are impressive fish for sure.
 
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welcome to MFK! :headbang2

one of my personal favorite "true" Monster fish would be the barramundi, native to Australia, and have a similar shape to snooks. I find them very personable and remind me of chitala ornata or lopis with their funny long face shape when you view them from the front.

though I am unsure how aggressive they are towards other fish, they are definitely tanks of fish that I doubt most fish would mess with.

their max sizes and tank size also can be put into speculation but I believe a 1000g can suffice for an extremely long period of time

I think some catfish also fit the standard of such a large pool like tiger shovelnoses or big ripsaws, would probably stray away from tigrinus though, as they have many "bitable" parts like their thin flag tails and fins
It will be hard to get them since i live in florida sadly :/
 
Cool mate.
What filtration do you have on the pond?
Did you catch or buy the snook?
What do to feed them?
Can’t they be fresh or salt water?
 
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Cool mate.
What filtration do you have on the pond?
Did you catch or buy the snook?
What do to feed them?
Can’t they be fresh or salt water?

VEVOR Uv filter i got off amazon​

Caught these guys treated them each in a 250 gallon stock tank.
Feed the smaller ones rosy reds feeders.
The bigger one eats live goldfish or if i can i try to get live tilapia and treat them and feed them to him.
Snook can be full salt and be full freshwater i try to get them in full freshwater so i don’t have to slowly make them full freshwater
 
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