Black eye soldier fish or squirrel fish compatibility

[ajiisss]

I have a 220 gallon FOWLR with some GSP . I recently bought a soldier/squirrel fish 4 inch long from liveaquaria. The note indicated its a very peacful fish and can only a threat to shrimps and brittle stars . I dont have shrimps or starfish in my tank. I have few damsels in my tank. Any one have any experiences with these fish . Anyone ever experienced the fish eating smal fish like damsesl or clownfih? I have few large turbosnails too. The fish is still in QT . I am now scared to put that in my tank. I fed it 2 cubes of krill and it just swallowed both the cubes without any issues

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

I have a 220 gallon FOWLR with some GSP . I recently bought a soldier/squirrel fish 4 inch long from liveaquaria. The note indicated its a very peacful fish and can only a threat to shrimps and brittle stars . I dont have shrimps or starfish in my tank. I have few damsels in my tank. Any one have any experiences with these fish . Anyone ever experienced the fish eating smal fish like damsesl or clownfih? I have few large turbosnails too. The fish is still in QT . I am now scared to put that in my tank. I fed it 2 cubes of krill and it just swallowed both the cubes without any issues

They have pretty large mouths, so they can eat proportionally larger food. They are also more active at night when other fish are asleep., so if the clownfish/damsels were really small, they might be eaten. Normal sized damsels should be safe.

These are peaceful fish otherwise, they won't bother anything they can't swallow outright.

Do you know which species you have?

Jay

 

[ajiisss]

They have pretty large mouths, so they can eat proportionally larger food. They are also more active at night when other fish are asleep., so if the clownfish/damsels were really small, they might be eaten. Normal sized damsels should be safe.

These are peaceful fish otherwise, they won't bother anything they can't swallow outright.

Do you know which species you have?

Jay

Thanks Jay
Its this one . I bought a small cchromis fish and put him in QT to check it out. The soldier fish went bonkers trying to eat it . So I rehomed him yesterday gave it to my LFS . Not good for a community tank with small fishes eventhough it mentions the fish is peaceful