Birchir Help!!

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asenarose said:
I have four bichirs and they have not attempted to escape their tank at all. From some of what I have read, they will not do so as long as they are happy. I make sure that they have lots of hiding places, the best of food and they seem very content. One of them even comes to the top now to let me pet him. I love my bichirs. I keep gravel and several different sizes of rocks in the tank. I mostly feed blood worms and beef blood cubes. I gravel vac 2x a week ( their food can be messy ) and net out the left over food daily and do a partial water change once a week ( about 10 gallons ) . I had a cool ornament that resembled a small tree that all my fish seemed to love but finally removed it as all they were doing was hiding in it and I hardly ever saw them. Instead, I put some old clear kitchen glasses and a large clear drinking pitcher in the tank and now I can watch them and they seem to find it acceeptable. Right now I temporarily have them in a 29 gallon they have just about outgrown and am getting ready to buy a bigger tank. Mine have grown very quickly since I got them.......I did have two tanks going with bichirs and my other fish but as my pump and heater both died recently on one of the tanks, I combined them until I by a bigger tank as I need to upgrade all that stuff anyway. Raising bichirs is a rewarding experience ! I get excited everytime I can tell they have grown and they all have such different personalities.
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Jumping out has nothing to do with their happiness. If you do not take precautions to secure your tank top openings, it will likely be a matter of time till one goes shall we say exploring. It is such a preventable fish loss. I can till you really like your fish, imagine how you would feel to find one dried up on the carpet. cut to fit egg crate works well and is cheap, fast and easy. Having said that, lets see a thread with some pics of your fish, sound like they are really healthy.
 
hey guys my lfs recently went out of stock on senegal bichir :/ but my local petsmart has a lot in stock but there called dinosaur eel are these senegals ? and can you guys tell me how to pick out healthy one cuz i really hate shopping there just cuz they mix south american cichlids and African cichlids together and in each tank there is about 1 fish dead or dying and because the people there dont know anything and wont feed the fish if you ask them to see if there healthy and the people there hurry you up if your checking the fish out and if you ask them for a certain fish in a tank they say no i cant get that, petsmart i hate that place -_- so ya can you also give me ways on how to identify baby sens are there like any characteristics that baby sens have thx :)
 
The Dinosaur Bichir is what Petsmark calls their Sens. Not really sure why, but that's where mine came from and they called it a dinosaur here also!
 
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