I'm thinking about getting a bichir. I want to keep it with a gold flake pike cichlid and a green terror. In a 29 gallon for now and uprading them all the a 55gallon in 2-5months. Its going to be in a heavily planted tank. What should I feed it? the substrate is aquatic plant soil and pea gravel. I'm adding plant nutrients as well. It wont react bad to any of these things will it? does It need caves? cause I've seen tons of tanks w/o them. what should I feed them? Do i meat all requirments?
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Pea gravel is probably okay, at least for juvie bichirs because it's too big for them to swallow, but gravel is not recommended, because some do swallow gravel with fatal results. Caves are an option, not a requirement. Plants should be very hardy, as both your cichlids and bichir are well known plant uprooters if not outright destroyers. My oscar was nearly named "Shredder" for what he likes to do to plants and green terrors are of similar temperament.
Be sure to get the 55 on schedule, I don't have experience with gold flake pike cichlids, but the others grow fast from small sizes.
Read Beblondie's primer in the sticky section above, she worked hard on it and it is loaded for bear with good information. She has probably forgotten more about bichirs than most people will ever know.(I'm a big Anne fan!)
Be sure to get the 55 on schedule, I don't have experience with gold flake pike cichlids, but the others grow fast from small sizes.
Read Beblondie's primer in the sticky section above, she worked hard on it and it is loaded for bear with good information. She has probably forgotten more about bichirs than most people will ever know.(I'm a big Anne fan!)
55gal is a little too narrow IMO/IME for even a Senegal go with something at least 18" wide...My Bichir went from 3"-4" to 10" in 3 months (that is a Senegal) Get the 55gal now and then worry about getting a 75gal....
yeah i would def plan on getting a 75g then, 55g would be fine for the GT BY ITSELF however with any kind of tankmates especially ones that get larger (like a sen) dont know how big the other one gets, but yeah you will def need bigger tank than a 55g, oh and thats awesome your sen grew that fast im planning on getting a couple for my 120g and wasnt sure how fast they grew is that typical of them?
I would encourage some kind of hiding spot for the bichir as the other two might get a little aggressive and he'll need a spot to relax.