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Old October 13th, 2008  
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Probably a school of 5, and that would be pushing it. Not because of the bioload, but the swimming space. These fishes have a 2 inch fish bioload, but can grow about 3 inches big,
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Old January 5th, 2009  
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5) Be wary of filters. At night, the Hatchets will be 'sleepng' like any other fish, and the current of the filter can suck they're several millimeter wide bodies up the intake with ease! You should install some sort of guard on your filter to prevent this.
Blub,
Any suggestion on what to put on the intake part of the filter? hatchet fish are on my stocking list for my new tank and I am glad that you made me aware of it.
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Old January 6th, 2009  
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i thought they got to 2 inches and about 1 inch or 1.5 inch bioload but i could be mistaking.

sorry no trying to hijack the thread
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Old February 16th, 2009  
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I have 4 marble hatchets in a 20 along with some other fish. They are about 1 inch long, I assume they are not fully grown. They seam to be pretty happy. I would go with a school of at least 5, i plan on getting more for my current 4. A 10 gallon aquarium for a whole school of hatchets is pushing it pretty far. I think it was a good idea to wait for another tank. Good luck!
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Old February 17th, 2009  
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I have 4 marble hatchets in a 20 along with some other fish. They are about 1 inch long, I assume they are not fully grown. They seam to be pretty happy. I would go with a school of at least 5, i plan on getting more for my current 4. A 10 gallon aquarium for a whole school of hatchets is pushing it pretty far. I think it was a good idea to wait for another tank. Good luck!
Watch the betta and hatchets - I've never tried to combine them out of fear for the hatchets. It may work though, but I guess it depends on your Bettas personality. Hatchets are peaceful fish that confine themselves to the top I suppose - which is like corys (except they stay at the bottom) so the combo may work.

David - sorry for the late reply! I'd put any kind of aquarium safe meshing stuff on the filter; you may of course not have that problem, as many people don't but I seemed to have it a lot.

Mjordan - that would be overstocking as hatchets ideally need at least 20gals of space, as they only use the top space and a in 10gals they wouldn't get much swimming space. They do have a vey low bio-load though ,due to their slim body shape.
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Old February 17th, 2009  
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Blub,
Any suggestion on what to put on the intake part of the filter? hatchet fish are on my stocking list for my new tank and I am glad that you made me aware of it.
i just cut a whisper biobag (lots of extras from my whisper filters that came with kits) in half and use fishing line or cotton thread to attach it
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Old February 17th, 2009  
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I think the reason the Betta doesn't attack the hatchets is because their fins are so short. Long fins attract Bettas because they look more like their own.
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Old February 17th, 2009  
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I think the reason the Betta doesn't attack the hatchets is because their fins are so short. Long fins attract Bettas because they look more like their own.
Yeh I once knew someone with a female betta with fancy guppies... And I tell you those gup's tails looked like stubs!
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Old February 17th, 2009  
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That happened to a long finned danio that i had. I didn't think about the long fins. It was pretty stupid of me. A couple of days later, those fins were shreds.
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Old February 17th, 2009  
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I had to move the Betta to a different container for a while.
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Old February 17th, 2009  
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Wasn't fun for it i bet.
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Old February 19th, 2009  
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so blub do u think i could get away with 4 hatchets in the 10g or do i need to increase that school. only prob. is that i not realy able to put them in my 30g unless i switched the hatchets for my neon tetras which im not really looking forward to if i were to have to....


thatnks and im hopin 4 a reply
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Old February 19th, 2009  
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so blub do u think i could get away with 4 hatchets in the 10g or do i need to increase that school. only prob. is that i not realy able to put them in my 30g unless i switched the hatchets for my neon tetras which im not really looking forward to if i were to have to....


thatnks and im hopin 4 a reply
Hatchets need a 20gal at least... As I stated before.
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Old February 20th, 2009  
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ok so i guess i will rework my stocking plans.
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