Can an african butterfly fish live with arowanas and oscars?

im planning to get an african butterfly fish but i dont know if it could live in the same tank with a 4inch jardini,a 5inch silver aro, and a 3inch oscar. And what kind of food does an african butterfly fish eat? And do they the just stay close to the sufface and not move around alot?|||i hope you have a large tank.





But it wont work, jardini arowanas are extremely aggressive and when it gets larger, it will not tolerate other tankmates, so the silver, oscar and butterfly fish will probably be killed. Did you do any research on jardinis? i certainly didnt when i bought my first,and he ended up killing two silver arowanas.





Overall it sounds like a bad idea, as you wont usually see a fully grown 4 foot silver arowana and a butterfly fish get along. He will be eatten.





But again i hope you have a large tank, and a seperate tank for the jardini.|||As for now, your butterfly should be fine while it is small. It would be such a threat for your african buttefly fish with the silver arowana. It might be better in a species tank.





ABF (african butterfly fish) eats mainly instects that fall to the water. I would recommend you give him some small crickets. For now, give him some megaworms. They usually stay close to the surface. They may not leave the surface. They will move all over the surface.|||3 INCH OSCAR IS THE PROBLEM!


THE BIGGER HE GETS


THE BIGGER HIS MOUTH GETS|||I have to agree with the idea of having both Jardini and Arowana in the same tank is a bad mix and then add in the fact that you are putting in a fish that has a max size of 4 inches I can't see that fish making it one year in there. The Jardini and the Silver South american by far will progress differently. Jardini have the same body build as their closer related Asian Arowana counterparts. The silvers however do not and tend to grow much larger. I'd assume you have around a 180 or 200 plus gallon set up to house these fish, or you if they are in like a 75 now, realize that they are not going to be able to stay in that tank long term wise. You're silver south american grows slower then the jardini, but has a larger potential. Not to mention as the poster above said, they tend to, though not always, be more aggressive in nature then then silvers. They will go after food below where the silver will spend the majority of it's time on the surface. I think you'd end up with a fight on your hand once they begin to hit lengths over a foot long. I've got four silvers now in a 180 and in the bigger three, they are now at about 12 inches solid. They are beginning to show signs of tail nipping occasionally, so if there was a jardini in that mix, like with your tank, you could full well expect that to become much worse.





The main point is that if you add your African butterfly, it's most likely going to end up being a tasty meal for one of those fish in your tank. I'd really think over housing the silver and jardini in seperate tanks though. They are both wonderful fish IMO and it'd be a shame to see either die from aggression.





JV|||This is a bad idea. The African butterfly fish won't grow more than 4" or so and will soon be food for the oscars, or possibly the arowana. You would be much better off keeping the African butterfly in another tank. African butterflies will eat small bugs that land on the surface, as well as floating pellets or flakes, but will rarely go after anything that sinks. They stay at the surface and don't move much at all.