Rope Fish

[tennis4you]

I keep seeing this one rope fish in the LFS and I think it is awesome. I must have one.

But since I have become far more educated about the process of getting a fish I will ask the questions before I seriously look into getting one.

Are they aggressive?
What do they eat?
I can only assume a 125g tank is big enough?
Anything else? Do they need hiding spaces?

I have 4 barbs and an angle fish in the tank now, just getting it set up.

Any thoughts are greatly appreciated!!!

 

[matt1713]

the rope fish is agressive and it mite eat the barbs and the tank is big enough also they like to b kept in groups

 

[Ripley]

Ropefish will eat any fish that will fit in its mouth, but in my experince they are'nt too aggressive. I hav'nt had one that would go after other fish b/c of territiorial reasons. You can feed them anything from flakes to live/frozen food. My only word of caution is to make sure that you have no escape hole in your hood; the rope fish will get out.

 

[tennis4you]

I have another question about the rope fish. Pending this questions answer I am probably going to go get a few...

Do they bite?

Thanks!!!

 

[Ripley]

Mine never did, they seemed to be afriad of my hand anyway.