The peacock bass is the fish that's commonly found around the world. North America, Central America, South America and even Asia. This is not by default. These fish do not belong in many of these areas. The peacock bass is actually from the Amazon, it's areas inside of Central America and South America, also commonly founded in these areas like Florida, other warm climates and places like Asia because of fish keepers letting thier fish put their tanks and into main waterways. Now, when you hear the name Bass, first thing that comes to your mind is the actual North American bass, the largemouth bass or maybe even a smallmouth bass. This genus is actually not related to these fish whatsoever this peacock bass is actually a cichlid. It's more closely realted to my oscar or my jack dempsey which is also inside this tank or even my pike cichlid. They got their name bass because of the shapes of their bodies. Now they have a nice wide framed body that has a very small tail that widens to a nice big fin. Also probably the signature the peacock bass is its mouth which is why it's a problem it's in some of these areas. This peacock bass being inside of the areas like Florida and also Asia prosze proses problem for many native fish that are also in the area. Florida for example actually introduced this peacock bass into its ecosystem in the late 80s, the reason being is because there were so many fisherman down there that were attacking and killing me largemouth bass population, that actually had to introduce this species and that changed the ecosystem in Florida forever. Because this is a fish that will probably be there forever, because it eats so much it readily populate the area it's easy to spawn in those areas just like how any of the other invasive fish are in those areas.
Enough of peacock bass in the wild and where they are all over the world let's talk about them inside the fish tanks. Now, peacock bass and you see them in the store will be very small. I've seen the plenty of times where they're anywhere between two inches and very cute. And you know maybe six to seven inches and they look a little beefier. Now they're a supercool looking fish. If you were into predatory fish you definitely want to keep this guy because they're an incredible fish when it comes to their personality. When i first got him, he was just about 2 inches and he's roughly about the inches now. Speaking of ten inches, these guys can become by hemans. So the reason why it's a little bit off taking is because many people see this fish inside of a fish store that are 2,3 or 4 inches big. And they say wow it's really great-looking fish, I'm gonna buy him, but you didn't do that research on this fish. This fish needs tank size of way north of an omelet, This is a topic that's regularly argued about on forums all over the place. Many people say that this officially needs 180 gallons when it gets to be its max size. Some people say it needs to be at a minimum of 300 gallons.
Speaking of their max size fish tank, this fish become huge. These fish can become anywhere between 24 hopefully up to about 36 inches, all depending upon the type of peacock bass that you have. There's about 5 peacock bass species that are out. There are other species that'll not have really been identified. This specifically is the I'm gonna butcher this year the cichlid seller. Something like that also known as the butterfly key peacock bass. Now this fish are cichlid now. When he was younger he wasn't necessarily that aggressive or territorial, but now that he's got bigger, he's now displaying a little bit more of cichlid, like behavior. Now they have an incredibly large mouths but they don't necessarily have a lot of big teeth or things like that. So are they dangerous to other cichlids or could they fight with other cichlids? Yes, but are they exactly a dovey not exactly this fish does fight territorially with my jack pepsi here.
It reports a tank mate, don't put anything that could fit in this fish mouth, because it's not gonna end well for the other fish. Also don't put anything this hyper aggressive in this fish. They can put up a little bit of a fight. But if you put anything super aggressive with it, it's not going to do that.
Well, overall the peacock bass is a super fun fish if you can keep it for it's entire life, I would highly suggest getting it. If you like this article, please leave a comment, and don't forget to read another article about freshwater fish tank. Thank you for supporting us, bye.
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