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Please guide me on the type of bichir , 15 specimen of which could possibly live in a 120 for life.
Hey,
Mokelembembe, Polli, Palmas, Senegalus, Delhezi.
15 sounds like a lot but if you keep up maitenance and filtration it's fine.
Polypterus except for teugelsi and ornatipinnis don't mind being kept with a lot of specimen of their own genus.
 
Hey,
Mokelembembe, Polli, Palmas, Senegalus, Delhezi.
15 sounds like a lot but if you keep up maitenance and filtration it's fine.
Polypterus except for teugelsi and ornatipinnis don't mind being kept with a lot of specimen of their own genus.
You serious? 15 senegalus in a 120 ?
I bet that tank would need 70-80% wc every alternate day. Sorry but I don't keep fish that way.this is thr reason I don't keep Africans. It seems like raising tilapia in a hydroponics system.
 
Hey,
yea it will look crowded when those specimen are fullgrown but that doesn't mean it bothers or harms the fish.
It's a personal choice everyone has to make for themselves.

I don't have a 120g at the moment but in my 228gal I am keeping 19 Polypterus (mostly lower jaw WC) at the moment and you really can't tell there that many of them in the tank.

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Hey,
yea it will look crowded when those specimen are fullgrown but that doesn't mean it bothers or harms the fish.
It's a personal choice everyone has to make for themselves.
Good luck with the maintaince tho.
But provided a person also has other priorities in life, I do think that the fish will suffer water parameters. That's my take.
Peace✌
 
Nice.Are you a member on Polypterid Fanatics?
Hey,
yea it will look crowded when those specimen are fullgrown but that doesn't mean it bothers or harms the fish.
It's a personal choice everyone has to make for themselves.

I don't have a 120g at the moment but in my 228gal I am keeping 19 Polypterus (mostly lower jaw WC) at the moment and you really can't tell there that many of them in the tank.

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