Tankmates with JARDINI (READ!!!)

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yeah, usually a bad idea w/ any aro species, especially saratogas, and gar except for Africans
 
I hand raised my jar from a baby (5 inches) he's now 14 he's kept happily with a full grown jag a Texas x a baby jag a baby dovii and some tabbies plus a goldfish someone didn't eat and has grown to 5 inches he's the biggest softie in my tank let's me pat him he's never shown any aggression even when I introduce new tank mates
 
rumblesushi;312210; said:
This part is totally true.

I've been trying to tell people that who say "nah my jardini is fine"

Sometime between 8 and 12 inches they'll suddenly turn and start picking off your tankmates.

it'll start with the jardini casually snapping at or nipping tankmates that get in it's way, and from there is escalates to vicious beatings, ripping fish up and killing them.

But people get fooled, mine seemed like a complete softy at 6 inches, a couple of months later and it was a mean bastard.
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my 9" jardini is fine it didnt kill anything even small trichogaster fishes and i have it with two spotted gars ina 250
 
Jardinis are territorial, once they are king of the tank they can hurt or kill anything they like, take their territory away by adding some extra fish, at least 2 or 3 around the same size so he can't pick on just one, or take them out the tank when u introduce new fish to stir him up and break his routine, it's the only way.
 
Size doesn't matter, a jar is a jar. Put a big jar in a little jars tank and the small one will attack a bigger one without thinking, until the bigger one feels like it's his home and fights back, but by then all his fins will probly be shreaded, it's their territory not the fish, but sometimes it's a bit of both, they can be racist ha. Mine recently killed a 30cm jag because I didn't introduce him into the tank properly, relentless attacking, I added some more fish took my driftwood out and the tables have turned, he's fine again, if anything my clown knife chases him now, another territorial fish, but the tank is relatively peaceful now, jars are one tuff awesome Aussie predator, u jus gotta try contain their aggression and their fine
 
My first jar lived with a breeding colony of frontosas he was 45cm, no problems, jus socialize them, first use big cheap fish if ur worried hel kill, then add ur expensive stuff, it can be tricky but it's worth it
 
the other day i bought a silver aro to add to my tank where i have a jar, dat, oscar and pleco. in two days time the silver was really beat up and i had to set up another tank for him where he is healing right now. also noticed that my jar is now starting to get agressive with my oscar and even territorial with him and my oscar is about double his size. my jar is about 4 inches right now
 
Never had a Jar that would tolerate any tank mates, this one is particularly nasty. Put these 4 Coal Grunter in there 10 weeks ago at 2 to 3 inches as I had no where else to put them, now 3 to 4 inches. Any 4 inch fish that goes in there gets eaten but she ignores these guys unless they try to eat her food then she will chase them.

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