Two lungfish together??

lungfishgirl

lungfishgirl

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Amidst a lot of corn....
I'm hoping if anyone can answer if I can keep two lungfish together in a tank. One is 25" in length and the other is 30". I was hoping to put them both together in a 150 gallon aquarium. Has anyone tried this before? Both of them have slowed growing quite a bit.
Any lungfish experts out there- please help me!!

Thank you very much!
-lungfishgirl
 
what kind? africans are very agressive. the southern americans and austrialian usually leave tankmates they cant eat alone but you would need a tank that can handle 2 3 foot+ fish.
 
I'm assuming that they are African- there is so little information about them out there that everytime I think I have them figured out, i see another picture or description and I change my mind!
Here is a picture of one of them. He's the smaller one. The larger one is almost all dark grey...
smallerlungfish.jpg
 
looks like the west african lungfish to me. protopterus annectens, they get about 3 feet in the wild. how agressive are yours right now? i presonally wouldnt do it especially in a tank that small, once they get closer to their max size they will both always be in each others hair unless you get them in something like a 8 foot tank. an 8x3 with some larger surface tankmates would be awesome.
 
I agree with John, putting them in the same tank could cause problems. What size tanks do you have them in now?
 
That seems fine for now. Maybe you could move the bigger one into the 150g until you can get a bigger tank for the other one.???
 
i was thinking about that too...
I was also thinking of getting a 125 gallon instead of the 150 only because the width and length are the same, but the height is shorter in the 125, making it easier for them to come up for air. I think they might appreciate that more...

-lungfishgirl
 
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