Planet Zoo 2 African Tigerfish — habitat, biome, size & which animals it can live with

African Tigerfish is one of the 130 Planet Zoo 2 launch species. It is housed in a Aquarium / Exhibit habitat, accepts the Lakes & Rivers biome, carries a no barrier requirement and is listed at no published size. It shares a biome and an enclosure type with 11 other species, but the official species data rules out every one of those pairings, so it needs a habitat of its own.

African Tigerfish

Every figure on this page comes from the official Planet Zoo 2 Zoopedia export rather than trailer footage: biome, enclosure type, barrier grade, size and the compatibility verdicts are all taken from the game's own data.

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EnclosureAquarium / Exhibit

BiomesLakes & Rivers

StatusLeast Concern

Where it lives in the wild
Africa

African Tigerfish at a glance

Source: official Planet Zoo 2 Zoopedia export (130 species). Also on the searchable animal list.

Enclosure and barrier requirements

African Tigerfish needs a Aquarium / Exhibit enclosure and accepts the Lakes & Rivers biome. The barrier requirement is none at all, and that is the number to check before building: a Grade 4 animal behind a Grade 1 wall is the most common way a first zoo stalls.

Which animals can live with the African Tigerfish?

African Tigerfish shares a biome and an enclosure type with 11 other species, but every one of those pairings is ruled out by the official data, because one side of each pair is officially solitary.

Same biome, but not compatible

11 of the species that accept the Lakes & Rivers biome cannot share an enclosure with the African Tigerfish, because one side of the pair is officially solitary. These are the pairings people ask about most, so they are spelled out rather than left as an unexplained gap.

Species	Biome	Enclosure	Why not
American Bullfrog	Lakes & RiversWetlands	Exhibit	African Tigerfish is solitary “African tigerfish are best described as asocial to loosely aggregative predators: juveniles show schooling behaviour, while adults are large…”
Axolotl Deluxe	Lakes & Rivers	Exhibit	African Tigerfish is solitary “African tigerfish are best described as asocial to loosely aggregative predators: juveniles show schooling behaviour, while adults are large…”
Blunthead Cichlid	Lakes & Rivers	AquariumExhibit	African Tigerfish is solitary “African tigerfish are best described as asocial to loosely aggregative predators: juveniles show schooling behaviour, while adults are large…”
Boeseman's Rainbowfish	Lakes & Rivers	AquariumExhibit	African Tigerfish is solitary “African tigerfish are best described as asocial to loosely aggregative predators: juveniles show schooling behaviour, while adults are large…”
Brown Trout	Lakes & Rivers	AquariumExhibit	African Tigerfish is solitary “African tigerfish are best described as asocial to loosely aggregative predators: juveniles show schooling behaviour, while adults are large…”
Clown Loach	Lakes & Rivers	AquariumExhibit	African Tigerfish is solitary “African tigerfish are best described as asocial to loosely aggregative predators: juveniles show schooling behaviour, while adults are large…”
Common Rudd	Lakes & Rivers	AquariumExhibit	African Tigerfish is solitary “African tigerfish are best described as asocial to loosely aggregative predators: juveniles show schooling behaviour, while adults are large…”
Danube Crested Newt	Lakes & RiversWetlands	Exhibit	African Tigerfish is solitary “African tigerfish are best described as asocial to loosely aggregative predators: juveniles show schooling behaviour, while adults are large…”
Giant Gourami	Lakes & Rivers	AquariumExhibit	African Tigerfish is solitary “African tigerfish are best described as asocial to loosely aggregative predators: juveniles show schooling behaviour, while adults are large…”
Giant Slippery Frog	Lakes & Rivers	Exhibit	African Tigerfish is solitary “African tigerfish are best described as asocial to loosely aggregative predators: juveniles show schooling behaviour, while adults are large…”
West Indian Manatee	EstuarineLakes & RiversMangroveOpen SeaWetlands	Aquarium	African Tigerfish is solitary “African tigerfish are best described as asocial to loosely aggregative predators: juveniles show schooling behaviour, while adults are large…”

Close, but ruled out by enclosure type

3 species share at least one biome with the African Tigerfish but use a different enclosure type — a land habitat against an aquarium or a flying aviary — so they cannot be mixed however well the biomes line up.

Common Hippopotamus, Eurasian Beaver, Gharial

Behaviour, size and weight

African Tigerfish is classed as Solitary in Frontier's Social & Reproduction notes: “African tigerfish are best described as asocial to loosely aggregative predators: juveniles show schooling behaviour, while adults are largely independent hunters that tolerate one another only when conditions favour it.” On size the game lists no published size for the male. Size and weight together decide the minimum habitat footprint, so use the female figure when you are sizing a breeding pair rather than a display animal.

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All 130 animals · Full compatibility chart for African Tigerfish · Aquarium animals · Aviary birds · Deluxe edition animals · System requirements