new fish info plz?

any one know ne thing about Royal Clown Knife fish? if they would kill large chiclids or would they kill it or would they live together?

thanks
-Justin

 

Im not sure what a royal clown knife is but a normal clown knife can usually get along fine with NW cichlids as long as they arnt overly agressivve (red devil, Midas, Dovii ect.)

 

Clown knife's get around 4' long. It would really fill up a 400 gallon tank so you couldn't put a whole lot more with it. Larger cichlids would probably be okay as long as they are too large for the knife to eat (they grow very quickly too).

http://www.worldcichlids.com/fishprofil ... efish.html
http://fishprofiles.com/files/profiles/ ... hitala.xml

-Chelle

 

thats very odd because the one that i am getting is 12'

would you like me to post url with pic + info?

 

Yes, please do. There very well could be other species out there that don't get as large, but the most commonly available clown knifes get round 40".

-Chelle

 

did u mean to say 40' because you said 4' :|

 

heres couple links
http://www.aqualandpetsplus.com/Knife%2C%20Clown.htm
http://www.aquariumfish.net/catalog_pag ... _clown.htm

 

40" - 4' (48") should be about the average for clown knifes.

And since those 2 sites are lumping the royal clown knifes with the regular ones, I'm guessing they're size is similar.

Also, I really hate it when sites say fish reach a huge size in the wild, but only about half that size in aquariums. If they're the same species of fish, there shouldn't be that much difference in their potential sizes (and especially not in wild caught fish like clown knifes). If there is, it's because the fish is severely stunted, malnourished, or dies early. So basically what I'm getting at is don't believe them when they say these fish only get 18" in aquariums.

-Chelle

 

As in 12 feet?!!

 

eeeeeeee no sorry i got confuzed with the ' and ''s sorrrrrrrry

 

I doubt that it would stay 12 inches. But with a 400 gallon tank It would sure have room to grow out. -tl