Birchirs are very adaptable (mine is in hard water) but they will eat anything they can fit in their mouths, which is quite a lot when fully grown. And as they hunt at night they can ambush most fish while they ate dormant. Just for info.
240 Gallon exotic stocking
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I think it could work with adult cichlids. I kept a large ornate with cichlids ranging in size from about 6" to 14" in a 6' tank with no problem. Ornate was over a foot long. But like stated they will eat anything they can fit, or even almost fit. I also had a Senegal bichir choke on a pictus catfish that was much too big for it, and both died. You might want to stick with large haplochromis species, the 5"ish peacocks could possibly become a meal depending on the ornate's size.
Whenever I get the 240gallon I plan on letting it run for about a week or two so o have time to test the water and get everything to where it should be before I get the fish I plan on getting them all around the same time, would you guys recommended I quarantine them for a few days in my old 40 gallon or what would you guys recommend the best way to acculmate them into the tank
I was planning 2 Black ghost knife fish, 1 ornate Bichir, 1 dragon goby, 2 Redfin Prochilodus, 1 German red peacock, and 1 dragon blood peacock,
2 knife fishes dont work out together. U wane keep 1 or 0
dragon goby' while a lot of people say that they are brackish they are truly freshwater fish. Unless they are wild caught. But u dont wane mix them up with these fish because of their waterperimeters.
Those peacocks, u will need to go for a peacock only tank if u wane do that.
Redfin Prochilodus are from America.
ornate are from Africa.
U should not keep peacocks with a bichirs. The water perimeters are very different and it will not be good for ur fishes.
Peacock:
Temperature: 25 – 29 °C
pH: 7.5 – 9.0
Hardness: 179 – 447 ppm
Bichir:
Temperature: 72-82°F (22-28°C)
pH: 6.0-8.0
Hardness: 5-25 dH
U will see that the hardness is very different. I would not recommend keeping them together.
2 knife fishes dont work out together. U wane keep 1 or 0
dragon goby' while a lot of people say that they are brackish they are truly freshwater fish. Unless they are wild caught. But u dont wane mix them up with these fish because of their waterperimeters.
Those peacocks, u will need to go for a peacock only tank if u wane do that.
Redfin Prochilodus are from America.
ornate are from Africa.
U should not keep peacocks with a bichirs. The water perimeters are very different and it will not be good for ur fishes.
Peacock:
Temperature: 25 – 29 °C
pH: 7.5 – 9.0
Hardness: 179 – 447 ppm
Bichir:
Temperature: 72-82°F (22-28°C)
pH: 6.0-8.0
Hardness: 5-25 dH
U will see that the hardness is very different. I would not recommend keeping them together.
'That's correct, however unless those fish are wild-caught or have been kept and bred in true brackish water, they are *not* from costal environments. They have been bred for countless generations in salt-free environments. Their ancestors may have lived in brackish water at times, but their descendants have not.'
if u search I find a lot of people who say that u need to keep them in freshwater depending on the grower. I dont know how u found that they are all wild caught but I can not find anything about them only being wildcaught
There is a freshwater variety,however it is seldom offered and gets much bigger(3-4feet), however that is beyond the scope of this discussion,and where are any of the dragon gobies captive bred?
