Urgent: Large ID shark and Angel threat to baby Neon Tetra?
- Thread starter VicVegas84
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The Iridescent shark will definitely eat the neons and Angels will eat anything that will fit in their mouth.
Just an fyi on Iridescent sharks:
Your shark will quickly out grow your 29 gallon tank. They can grow to be 3 and sometimes 4 feet long. This is not really a shark, even though it's name implies it. They are a subclassification of a Pangasius catfish. They require a very large tank and prefer to school with 4 or 5 other catfish. They frighten easily and when scared will run into the glass and hurt themselves. If you keep this fish you will have to keep buying a bigger and bigger tank or he will stunt (meaning his organs will keep growing but his body won't) and he will die. He will eventually need a 300+ gallon tank if he reaches 3 feet in length. They can live past 20 years old.
Just an fyi on Iridescent sharks:
Your shark will quickly out grow your 29 gallon tank. They can grow to be 3 and sometimes 4 feet long. This is not really a shark, even though it's name implies it. They are a subclassification of a Pangasius catfish. They require a very large tank and prefer to school with 4 or 5 other catfish. They frighten easily and when scared will run into the glass and hurt themselves. If you keep this fish you will have to keep buying a bigger and bigger tank or he will stunt (meaning his organs will keep growing but his body won't) and he will die. He will eventually need a 300+ gallon tank if he reaches 3 feet in length. They can live past 20 years old.
PS- You may want to not overfeed your fish- there's already an overload on the water and the extra food will only make it worse. Try and keep your water clean b/c if your fish want to eat eachother, flake food decomposing on the bottom wont really make a difference... Fish really only need to be fed 2-3 times a week anyway. Hope you get everything worked out and don't get any MIA fish!
Errr, I hate to say it but I think you should have definitely done research on the ID shark before you bought it. I can't believe those things are still sold at LFSs, sick people! Housing that ID Shark is just going to be tough. I mean if you could keep up with moving it into larger homes as he grows I guess it's okay, it might hurt his health and growth rate though. All the tankmates you named with your ID shark will be feeder fish when he his mouth becomes big enough to stuff them. Pretty much all fish that don't grow to his size will be. =-\ don't really know what to tell ya, I would return or get rid of the ID shark in some safe, ethical manner though~