Bichirs and their growth rates

I wanted to start this thread for anyone interested since I was looking for the fastest growing bichir and couldn't find any info.
I bought a 3,5" endlicheri endlicheri bichir in May and It is now approx. 7.5-8" it is also being feed sinking gold pellets and chopped up Massivore pellets in my 300 gallon tank.
I would have loved to by an ornate bichir but I heard they were slow growers.


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Aw3s0m3 said:

Ornates are usually hit or miss. I got 2 ornates at 7" last year and in the year I had them, they only grew to 10". I've noticed that fastest growth though with sens and endli's. I've grown sens from 2" to 8" in 6 months and I got my black volta endli in February at 4" and now it's about 12".


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I think endli's are just pigs haha
Anyone know how they would act with stingrays?


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Aw3s0m3 said:

I've heard mixed of bichirs with stingrays. They could get along fine or the bichirs could start nipping at the Ray's disc. Most people say don't try it though.


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Yea kinda figured, I'm going away to university next year and don't think it would be a good idea anyway. I think I will just keep dreaming about owning a golden cross back(asian arowana since I live in canada) and leopoldi stingrays lol


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SawickiB said:

I think it all comes down to who eats the most one of my teugelsi bichirs has grown 2" in a month while the others are only at .5 to 1" in growth. I may have gotten lucky on my teugs though haha i got 5 that all eat like pigs , but my one eats SO much. Got 3 more coming But yea id agree that endis seem to grow the fastest. When i had one it grew from 6" to 13" in a few months.

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One bichir that would be pretty awesome to own would be a nile bichir. I've literally looked everywhere for one with no luck



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ReisAntonio said:

Same here I would love to have one but never managed to find one yet. At the moment I have a 12" ornate, a 14" endli and an 8" senegalus and I would have to say that the senegalus are the slowest growers because I have mine for 5 years and it´s still that size and i´ve heard they can get to 10"

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You might have gotten a smaller one that just maxed out at 8"


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