Fishherder Posted April 25, 2014 Report Share Posted April 25, 2014 I am new to this forum but have seen lots of good advice given out when I have been lurking. My situation is that we bought a Ghost knife fish and it has survived all the learning mistakes we have made :facepalm: and we are really attached to him. However he has grown well, and he is 20cm+ at the moment but has begun to get in touch with his inner predator and is becoming incompatible with the other inhabitants that are appropriate for a tank this size. (Barbs, rams, corys). Current tank is AR850. We have 2 options - one rehome him (least preferred) or upgrade to a 400l tank and start another tank my questions are: *is it worth going for example a juwel over aqua one and paying the extra $800 difference? *what tank mates that are reasonably large but wouldn't tear up the Ghost knife (eg not african cichlids) in a tank this size? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexyay Posted April 26, 2014 Report Share Posted April 26, 2014 Lol - we had a similar situation with our fire eel. Fortunately we already had it in a 450L tank, but it will eventually be in a 500L "monster" tank. Good ideas would be a medium spiny eel sp - something like a peacock or zebra spiny eel. Eventually a fire and tyre track might get a bit big for a 400L tank, but they're possibilities too. Synodontis and hoplos are both good bottom dweller species. Angels might be a possibility? I imagine it would depend on the aggressiveness of your ghost knife. There might be other good "new world" cichlids suitable (I don't know much about cichlids, though). I can't be of much help RE the Juwel and Aqua One. When we had a Juwel we hated the internal filter, and it's not a great filter for such a large tank anyway. So that was replaced. I think I liked the lighting though - but it was a while ago. I loooove the way Juwel tanks look, though. I'm personally not keen on most Aqua One stuff (not had any luck with their lighting for growing plants, and hate their HOB filters, but my experience doesn't go much beyond that) - but some say they do the job just fine. For tanks that size, a custom built tank is a good option. There are a few tank builders available through the forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godly3vil Posted April 26, 2014 Report Share Posted April 26, 2014 Hey there, where are you located? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishherder Posted April 26, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 26, 2014 Thanks Alex for your comments I will check out those species you recommended. I may rethink my tank options as well. @Godly Hi, I live in Massey in West Auckland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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