Can I Keep A Leaf Fish With My 2Fire Eels?

[giant19000]

ok i have a 12inch fire eel..a 3-4inch baby fire eel i just got 1 day ago,3balloon mollies (my wife's and my daughter's) 1 tiger barb (my wife's) my fire eels dont bother any of my fish i also have a betta but im moving him to my 5gallon fish tank..would i be ale to keep the leaf fish with my fish?i have a 120gallon fishtank and my baby eel is always in his home but my 12inch likes to show off lol ..or if not can i keep a indian dwarf puffer?

 

[nmonks]

ok i have a 12inch fire eel..a 3-4inch baby fire eel i just got 1 day ago,

Not a gregarious species… the big one *will* kill the smaller one once it becomes sexually mature.

3 balloon mollies (my wife's and my daughter's)

Do be sure to read about the special requirements of mollies. In any case, mollies are fire eel food. 30 years ago I kept tyre-track eels, and among other things it ate swordtails and platies. I've learned a lot since then and strongly recommend against live feeder fish, but the main thing is that large spiny eels are piscivorous, and something as small and deformed as balloon mollies will be dinner.

1 tiger barb (my wife's) my fire eels dont bother any of my fish

Nazi Germany didn't bother Poland right up until 1939! My point here being you won't know about any problems until it's too late. These fish are NOT compatible. Fire eels are massive; you can expect adults to be between 2-3 feet in length. They can, will eat fish up to about 6 inches in length.

i also have a betta but im moving him to my 5gallon fish tank..would i be ale to keep the leaf fish with my fish?

Obvious the betta has to be kept alone. As for the other fish, yes, an adult Ctenopoma acutirostre should be okay with a fire eel this size, and quite possibly with fully grown adults too, given its deep body shape and spiny fins, both traits that make it a difficult mouthful for a spiny eel.

i have a 120gallon fishtank and my baby eel is always in his home but my 12inch likes to show off lol ..or if not can i keep a indian dwarf puffer?

All pufferfish are best kept either singly or in groups of their own species. A very small number can be combined, carefully, with certain other tankmates: figure-8 puffers with bumblebee gobies for example. But dwarf puffers are too small to keep with bigger fish and too nippy to keep with smaller fish. So no, if you want dwarf puffers, get a 10 gallon tank and keep 3-4 specimens in there with just some plants and perhaps a few cherry shrimps.

Cheers, Neale

 

[always4lora]

plus a 120 g wont be big enough for life of a fire eel. I had a 15inch tire track eel in a 100g and it looked cramp. It would also eat the big prawns you can get (king tiger maybe) and theyre probs the same size as molly and when it ate them it ate 4/5 in one feeding. Greedy #28###.

 

[Wills]

Nazi Germany didn't bother Poland right up until 1939! My point here being you won't know about any problems until it's too late. These fish are NOT compatible.

That is possibly the best analogy of explaining how a fish tank can become problematic I have ever read!!

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

On a related matter, my Pearl Danios (was three 5.5cm adults and seven 3.5cm fry) were put through two massacres in the last three weeks, thanks to bad judgement calls by me...

The adults used to be in the Rio240 without problems, from around April to June. I then removed them to the safety of the Korall60, as my new Barilius canarensis(?) appeared to be intimidating them regularly. Having moved the Barilius and Opsarius to the 540l, I decided that it would be a good time to return the Danios to the 240l... Wrong!
One of the fry literally had its head removed within two minutes of adding the group to the tank, now thought to be inflicted by the then unknown Lionhead Cichlid parents. One of the adult female Pearls suffered a huge wound to her back and flank, but thankfully she healed well and I managed to quickly (somehow) rescue the other remaining eight and get them back to the sanctuary of the Korall.

Two weeks later, with the female having healed up superbly, I was determined to give the Pearls the freedom of the 540l. I'm always preaching about Danios needing to be kept in 4-foot tanks and here I was couping them up in a 2-footer! Given that I had seen the previous aggression levels deminish to nothing in the 540 (even the canarensis were behaving), I felt really positive about the transfer... Wrong!
Over the space of two nights, four Pearls had vanished, now definitely presumed eaten (although I'm not sure by who, I suspect the Opsarius, but perhaps it was the ~12cm SL Synodontis brichardi). In amongst the survivors was that same adult female plus a "clever" fry who had taken up sanctuary in a really tight spot under a piece of bogwood, after having almost half of its caudial fin bitten off.

In what has been an awful few weeks of fish keeping experiences for me, having lost two of my Humphead Glassfish and a second Leopard Bushfish from the group of five (no symptoms that pinpointed a cause, but I'm no longer operating the Magnum8 powerhead through fear that the 12500lph current is stressing out some of the fish in the 540l), I've learnt some lessons the hard way. It has really highlighted the need for me to properly research the conditions a fish needs as well as the "if a fish will fit in another tankmate's mouth, it is a case of when, not if" lesson.