bichir+dojo loache=?

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I am about to get a 55 or 75 gallon tank and considering buying a dragon eel (they look so awesome!)
currently I have 2 dojo loaches and was wondering if that would be a big no no.
my current tank has a peatmoss dirt mix coated in sand and planted in swords a apongetos java fern and what looks like an underwater elephant ear
the new one would have more of the above so that would help with the load.
I've heard dojo's are sensitive, but so far I've had one (still living) get sucked into my filter tube when the cap fell off and was sucked into the propeller cutting off its whiskers I found it 2 hours later. somehow it lived, floated around for a day though. Doesn't sound so sensitive.
could I pull it off or is it worth the risk?

I've heard that it wouldn't work, and I've hear people that have done it and it worked out great.
I know the bichir is safe with anything half its size, my dojo is about 7-8 inches long now, I plan of adding feeder guppies regularly, as long as it stays fed it should keep to itself maybe..?
thoughts?
 
The bichir will have the 2 loaches for lunch. The Doctor.
 
Usually dragon eels are violet gobies and dinosaur eels are Polypterus senegalus are you sure what you saw was a bichir?
 
deffinately not.
they called it a dinosaur eel
so Polypterus senegalus I guess?
well than what should I put in with Polypterus senegalus
 
Anything that is too big for its mouth. No serpentine loaches.
 
bichir senegalus might work, since it only grows to 12in, and one of the tricks i will do is to make sure the bichirs are extremely well fed, so it don't look at the dojos as food.

Good luck.
 
They use dojo loaches as feeders in the far east.
haysanatar:what other fish do you like there are several possibilites
 
How slender are dojo loaches? I'm dubious about a bichir eating a loach the same length is it, even if it is pretty skinny. Personally. I wouldn't try it though.

What other fish do you want in that tank? Cichlids probably won't work if you want a lot of plants, but pike cichlids would thrive. Several dwarf pikes would definitely work, I think. They don't get very big, so they probably wouldn't manage to eat the loaches, although I'm not sure if they are compatible due to aggression.
 
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