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i recently bought a fish called a south american dragon fish. i put it in a tank with three large healthy red bellied pacus, and the dragon fish killed them all. i havent been able to find any information on them on the web, what kind of fish can i keep with it that it wont kill? does anyone know a website i can go to to find anything out about them? i would appreciate the help

is it a dragon eel?
http://www.fishprofiles.com/files/profiles/dragoneel.xml

Last edited by r0b3y at 11-Jan-2005 01:58

How big were the pacus? what sized tank? i highly doubt it was the dragon eel, they're not very aggresive until they get bigger, and since the dragon "fish" killed the pacus quite quickly i'm assuming it wasn't a dragon eel. a pic would also help, was it one of these? they can be quite aggresive if i remember correctally, but they do get ~2ft but since you had pacu in the tank i'm assuming that's not an issue, that fish is also called a violet goby and they're brackish

BTW WELCOME TO FP

Daka

Last edited by dakafall at 11-Jan-2005 00:42

Can you describe this fish? Perhaps a Payara (Hydrolicus scomberoides)?

by large how big do u mean pacus get huge n r very hard to kill any way u could describe this dragon fish?

I believe the south american dragon fish he is referring to is called a violet goby. In that case this fish is actually brackish.

http://www.aquariacentral.com/species/db2.cgi?db=fresh&uid=default&ID=0488&picture_page_view=1

check this link tell me if thats what it is.

Last edited by Azrael_Darkness at 17-Jan-2005 18:29

yea, that's the fish i pointed out above in my earlier post, that is a violet goby that can get up to 2feet in length and they are a brackish fish

Daka

yea sorry, didn't see your post But i guess its all up to whoever started this thread to respond now.

I'm suprised a dragonfish would be able to kill pacus, since pacus get bigger, have teeth, and are generally more agressive. Dragonfish, especially at the size they are usually sold in pet stores (8-12 inches) can not eat anything much larger than bloodworms, they don't really have teeth and are just filter feeders. I've seen them try to eat shrimp pellets, and have to spit them back out.
Probably shouldn't go with pacus anyways though, since they're brackish. I've heard of people keeping them with swords and mollies, and I'm sure there's other fish they'd be fine with.

I'm so adjective, I verb nouns!

ya i cant see a violet goby killing a pacu maybe it was a birchir or however u spell them there often referred to as dinosaur eels its the closest i can think of