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There are no species of arowanas or gars that will live in a 55 for long.


If you must have something like a gar try needlenose fish, hujeta gars/ rocket gar, african pike characins, african needlenose fish, they aren't gars but the closest thing you can probably get to one in a 55 gallon.

The only thing I know of that looks somewhat like an arowana are african butterflyfish, they're actually called the poorman's arowana. Pretty neat little things, look somewhat evil, and they readily eat live , flake, and frozen foods. Great jumpers too. Had them before and liked everything about them except the fact that they only get about 4 inches.