View Full Version : how you setup your bichir tank?
fishmadness
04-11-2005, 11:31 AM
i getting into keeping bichirs. how you setup your tank?
Just off the top of my head.
-smooth substrate (sand, barebottom, fine gravel).
-no sharp corners (sharp slate, ornaments)
-lots of hiding places (driftwood, rocks, plants)
-lid that covers the whole top (no holes, they are jumpers)
-floating plants to dim the lights
Or
you can go completey barebottom, no decor whatsoever. This way they have nothing to fight over
Wisdom16
04-12-2005, 12:35 AM
I basically have plastic plants and black gravel. There is some turned over bowls for them to hide in.
buddah101
04-12-2005, 8:39 AM
Are most bichirs captive bred? I just wondered if they are harvested out of the wild or not?
beblondie
04-12-2005, 10:57 AM
Until recently all were harvested in the wild it's only within the last few years
captive breeding has been established and only with a few limited species.
P.senegalus senegalus for example are now farm raised.
armed2teeth
04-12-2005, 8:32 PM
I have read that the endlicheri and palmas polli are farm raised in asia, Trip P's I understand are also used as a food fish over there.
Trip P's I understand are also used as a food fish over there.
Trip p's. hahaha thats the first i heard of that. I've never heard of them being used as food, maybe in rare cases by certain people?
redtailfool
04-12-2005, 10:18 PM
how much would a large endlicheri cost? I stopped keeping them
2 years ago when my large senegalus jumped out of my tank. But i think
i want to have an endli now..
armed2teeth
04-12-2005, 10:28 PM
There has been some confusion in the Pacific Northwest Trip P's have been coming in as retropinnis so there has been some discussions about the two and thats the new hip abbreviation. I was talking to a lfs owner and he was saying that one of his costomer FOB told him asian farmers use them and snake heads for food in restaruants. He also said that the snake heads were usually kept in buckets "outback" and when they needed a fillet they just chopped off a steak from the back of the fish and left it there til they needed another. Sounds delicious! Dog anyone?
armed2teeth
04-12-2005, 10:32 PM
I was up in Portland this weekend and a place called the Wetspot had big 14" Chad endy's for about eighty bucks.
Kenta
04-12-2005, 11:28 PM
There has been some confusion in the Pacific Northwest Trip P's have been coming in as retropinnis so there has been some discussions about the two and thats the new hip abbreviation.
Yeah, i've heard that pollis are often mislabelled as retros. I'm from the pacific northwest too, well southwest (Vancouver). But, we don't ever get pollis or retros here.
neoprodigy
04-12-2005, 11:32 PM
I keep mine BARE...
Freshy
05-04-2005, 9:12 AM
dark background n base colour tank would be ideal for the bichir to show its true colour..:D
Trip p's. hahaha thats the first i heard of that. I've never heard of them being used as food, maybe in rare cases by certain people?
Tere are more types of fish for sale in thai food markets than you will ever see in a lfs. Never saw a bichir though. Maybe we should ask corydoras(new member) he is from singapore and might Know what is sold as munchies there?