Bichirs

[Davidiator]

Yes, it's me with another stocking idea for my 150 gallon tank.

Could I make a bichir and angelfish tank?

Or some sort of bichir tank that also has a ton of fish swimming everywhere ?

 

[Gourami Swami]

Yes as long as the fish are too large to become bichir food. I have kept cichlids with bichirs in the past with success.

 

[Davidiator]

Yes as long as the fish are too large to become bichir food. I have kept cichlids with bichirs in the past with success.

What would be good tankmates for them?
Preferably for pics cause my phone doesn't load pics when I search them online

 

[kno4te]

Probably senegalus or most upper jaws. Others can be delhezi and palmas complex. Just want to avoid bichirs nipping on the fins of any angel fish.

 

[kno4te]

For got about retros and gold dust as well. Another good options.

 

[Gourami Swami]

Pretty much anything that the bichir cannot eat. Elongated fish are likely to become snacks. Upper jaw bichirs I have found to mostly be easy-going. Something like a Senegal could be kept with south American cichlids like severums, etc.
You would have to watch out for if you got a particularly nippy one,as kno4te mentioned. Though my experience has not been that they are very nippy.

 

[smitty03281964]

My friend has kept several fish with Bichirs. They were at a size where they could not be prey.