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Butterfly fish do well with peaceful softwater fish of a similar size or larger.
When I kept them, they like playing with hatchet fish of a similar size, if smaller they might eat them.

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If you have a big enough tank with enough hiding places, pH of around 7, you can keep virtually any fish together as long as all the fish are around the same size and these two groups of fish are avioded:
Serrasalmus
Tetradon(figure eights and dwarfs are the
exception).

I keep a successful community of fish in a 4 foot tank including the following families:
Cichlids, tetras, loaches, gouramis, barbs, rainbows, livebearers, killiefish, catfish, puffers.

04-09-2006, 12:16 PM	#3
Cichlid Man Super moderator Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 2,100	Butterfly fish do well with peaceful softwater fish of a similar size or larger. When I kept them, they like playing with hatchet fish of a similar size, if smaller they might eat them. __________________ If you have a big enough tank with enough hiding places, pH of around 7, you can keep virtually any fish together as long as all the fish are around the same size and these two groups of fish are avioded: Serrasalmus Tetradon(figure eights and dwarfs are the exception). I keep a successful community of fish in a 4 foot tank including the following families: Cichlids, tetras, loaches, gouramis, barbs, rainbows, livebearers, killiefish, catfish, puffers.