What's the largest Bichir that ate another bichir in your tank ?

[flamenco-t]

I just red msmasspoly's thread on her endli eating her senegalus.

I am curious on your experience.

Please post:

1. The size and type of your polypterus that ate the other polypterus

2. The size and type of the victim.

Thanks

stan

[dbcb314]

1. 5ish inch, fat senegal

2. ate a 1 inch, skinny p. polli


idk why I even tried. Thing was like a worm. didn't last through the night. It was just dumb and a waste of 25 bucks lol. I think I was just so excited i found a different poly that I made myself believe it would work even though I knew it wouldn't.

[Yellow Bichir]

1. Delhezi, about 4"
2. Senegal, about 3"

That Delhezi sure is a beast. :grinno:

[MsMassPoly]

i have a 4 inch short body albino sen that ate a 2 inch IT tiger

[MsMassPoly]

I also have a 12 plus inch sen that ate a 10 inch rope fish:{

[AHMAD]

my monster ornate, 12inch ate my albino sen,4inch. very sad

[likestofish]

my old endli 10" ate a 7" arowana i had just bought.

[Cohazard]

12" congicus that ate two 4" albino sens

12" palmas palmas, ate a 4" albino sen

4' fishgonewild, ate a 12" and 10" albino sen

[Miles]

So I shouldn't put my 16" Ornate Poly in with my 4x 8" Senegalus? bad idea..

[Steve_2]

My 7" ornate at my 3" delhezi.

[MsMassPoly]

Don't do it i beg you,lol

[ArowBichir]

8" Ornate ate 9" rope didn't know how that worked

[tilo@meyer]

20"+ endlicheri ate 4" delhezi

[Bichirs4life]

My 10" Ornate ate my 8.5" Ropefish =(

[dbcb314]

well this thread has convinced me to make sure my grow out get a lot bigger LOL

[CDM]

My bichirs are all good boys & girls, they never ate any of the same kind. Infact, the largest they ate was 2" feederfishes.

[flamenco-t]

20"+ endlicheri ate 4" delhezi

I think I would've seen that one coming

[Dreamsofpeace54]

5" sen ate a 2"sen

[Kohaku]

My experience is my 14inch Lap ate my 4 inch endy and SB albino senegal.:(

[ettfettbranamn]

12" congicus that ate two 4" albino sens

12" palmas palmas, ate a 4" albino sen

4' fishgonewild, ate a 12" and 10" albino sen


do you have a personal vendetta against albino sens or are you into expensive feeders? :ROFL:

[Bichirs4life]

^^^I mean seriously!!!^^^

[uwe]

Hello,

i never lost abichir by eating by another bichir ...

But my onates love cichlids of all sizes - my first ornate had eaten 25(!!!) Jack Dempseys ... no-one wanted them to keep. Some of them were longer as the half size of the ornate.
My new ornate (i had given the old one to another keeper due to place problems to this time) killed the last cichlid (sajica) i had - also more than the half size ...

Beware of keeping cichlids & ornates!

Greetings

Uwe

[banjocat]

my 8-9 inch sen tried to eat my 4 inch albino sen. He went after the albino right after it was introduced to the aquarium. Was able to rescue the albino with only maybe a tail nip. Unless the albino puts on some more size, I won't be trying it again. I have owned the albino for about 6 months and it only seems to have grown about an inch(still about 4 inches). The regular sen grew much faster. Hope the LFS didn't stunt him somehow

[pytonson]

My 7" ornate at my 3" delhezi.

'n' thats the only bichir I lost too. 'n' the ornate made a party out of my 5" malaysian giant shrimp and 2 6" arowanas.

[CDM]

Hello,

i never lost abichir by eating by another bichir ...

But my onates love cichlids of all sizes - my first ornate had eaten 25(!!!) Jack Dempseys ... no-one wanted them to keep. Some of them were longer as the half size of the ornate.
My new ornate (i had given the old one to another keeper due to place problems to this time) killed the last cichlid (sajica) i had - also more than the half size ...

Beware of keeping cichlids & ornates!

Greetings

Uwe

I bet take out the potential threat is the purpose, and sometimes some expensive meal is not bad at all.:banhim::D

[xcuter]

12" congicus that ate two 4" albino sens

12" palmas palmas, ate a 4" albino sen

4' fishgonewild, ate a 12" and 10" albino sen

:ROFL::ROFL::ROFL::ROFL:
knock on wood havent had anyone swallowed yet

[Prophet714]

I also have a 12 plus inch sen that ate a 10 inch rope fish:{


8" Ornate ate 9" rope didn't know how that worked

My 10" Ornate ate my 8.5" Ropefish =(

all very disturbing. i will watch my bichirs carefully even though it seems they are very slim and not much would fit in their mouth

my old endli 10" ate a 7" arowana i had just bought.

This scares me. I'm planning to have that combo


i have a 4 inch short body albino sen that ate a 2 inch IT tiger

I have 10 inch ornate and a 5 inch NTTiger, should caution apply here also? the NTT looks very thick, not something i think would fit in the ornates mouth/stomach, but then again, all your posts has proven me wrong about what they could eat.

oh and i have a 4 inch loach in there also

[flamenco-t]

Datnoids are very very quick...I wouldn't worry about your NGTT with bichir..

stan

[Prophet714]

Datnoids are very very quick...I wouldn't worry about your NGTT with bichir..

stan

glad to hear.. thanks stan

[gmachine19]

Datnoids are very very quick...I wouldn't worry about your NGTT with bichir..

stan

Thats what i thought of my Hujeta gar. He was 4" and my 5" palmas ate it.:screwy: i wonder how that worked

[Knowdafish]

Another spaghetti eating thread! :D

[BlackGhostKnifelovr]

After reading this thread i Dont understand how i have this going on in my tank


http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f64/intoxi/polychill.jpg

My other black ghost knife used to point his head straight up and poke the tip of his tail on the poly's head and bounce on him... I found him dead one day.

[GUNA]

Ok,
also in my tanks a poly never ate another one.
But i would never co-house a 3" poly with a for example 8" + poly.
But in one of my tanks i keep a few 3" polys together with 16" - 18" ropefishes wthout no problems.

Instead all of my bichirs love the tail of my ghostfishes.
Its a shame but what to do??
Is not of the food.
My small bichirs getting theit shrimps and larvas every day.

How long you kept this combination??

[Jakob]

Never had a Poly that ate another Poly so they are cooperating the system, POLY ONLY TANK!
But one of my 11" senegal females once ate a 6" Tyre track eel...

[BlackGhostKnifelovr]

I'm not sure if you were talking to me but.. I have had theese two together about two months.

[uwe]

Hello,

i remember any pics of bichirs eating bichirs got posted on MFK ... but i couldn't find again.

Can anyone post pics?

Greetings
Uwe

[polypterus77]

yes, post some pics they will make a great remainder of what could happen :WHOA: