Leopard Bush Fish (Ctenopoma Acutirostre)

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Offline Dominika

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Leopard bush fish (Ctenopoma acutirostre)
« on: April 22, 2015, 06:45:48 PM »
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I saw these beauties in my LFS today and I was hoping for a bit of advice.

I currently have Peppered cories, rummy-nose tetras, honey gouramis and amano shrimps in my 120 litre tank. Would a single leopard bush fish (Ctenopoma acutirostre)be ok to keep with the rest?

My concern is, it's predatory and grows to 15cm. While gouramis should be ok, the rummy-nose tetras grow only to around 6cm. Would they become dinner?

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Re: Leopard bush fish (Ctenopoma acutirostre)
« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2015, 07:37:53 PM »
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I would be concerned for your smaller fish, mainly the torpedo shaped rummy noses, and amanos. Even if the bush fish didn't actually eat the rummies, it could well stress them by trying to eat them. Honey gouramis are probably the wrong shape to make a snack and cories can flick out 'daggers' to prevent them from being eaten - though often resulting in the cory getting stuck in the throat of the predator and death for both of them.

The other issue is your tank size. They need a tank 48 inches/120cm long, and not many 120 litre tanks are that long.

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Re: Leopard bush fish (Ctenopoma acutirostre)
« Reply #2 on: April 22, 2015, 10:56:30 PM »
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Thank you for your answer. It was just wishful thinking on my part, really.

I hate the idea of feeding one fish to another and I really like my rummy-noses so I won't get a leopard bush fish. At least until I get another tank, that is.

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