Bleheri/Bichir temp change?

[FisherCat]

Ello,

So I have a 30 gal with 2 sengal bichir & 1 ropefish (moving 1 sen), and I plan to place 2 Bleheri snakehead in there once I get them ordered.

Heard Bleheri need to have a lower temp(how low?) for 2-3 months to stay healthy, then moved back up into tropical temp(how high?). Would the bichir become ill due the temp lowering? Are there other fish that can deal with this? Guessing low temp fish could like rosy barb & danio, but any exotics can?

(tank is at 79-ish currently)

Thanks


p.s. any one have CND cost on bleheri? Seen at $40 once. OR have ordered from store on Van Island, BC?

 

[tokyogasmask]

Ello,

So I have a 30 gal with 2 sengal bichir & 1 ropefish (moving 1 sen), and I plan to place 2 Bleheri snakehead in there once I get them ordered.

Heard Bleheri need to have a lower temp(how low?) for 2-3 months to stay healthy, then moved back up into tropical temp(how high?). Would the bichir become ill due the temp lowering? Are there other fish that can deal with this? Guessing low temp fish could like rosy barb & danio, but any exotics can?

(tank is at 79-ish currently)

Thanks


p.s. any one have CND cost on bleheri? Seen at $40 once. OR have ordered from store on Van Island, BC?

Hi. Your tank sounds overstocked as it is allready without adding Bleheri!
Bleheri are sub-tropical fish. They shouldn't ever go it tropical temps.

Bleheri as with most snakeheads should be kept in species only tanks.

 

[-DC-]

Hi. Your tank sounds overstocked as it is already without adding Bleheri!

Bleheri are sub-tropical fish. They shouldn't ever go it tropical temps.

Bleheri as with most snakeheads should be kept in species only tanks.

Agreed, they don’t fair well in higher temps, you'll have to keep them in sub tropical temps, although those area's do overlap so you might pull it off, if you stick in the higher range of the sub tropical, but snakeheads tend to do poorly over the long term at higher temps,

As for the species tank, with blehri although it's always a risk I’d say anything that wont fit into it's mouth is safe... I've seen them keep with lot's of different species, even seen them live happily with feeder gold fish that were a bit to big lol,

But a word of caution I know one tank that had 4 bleheri lived very will with many other fish for a long time, then one day they started showing signs of mating, a pair (or trio) formed and EVRYTHING else got wiped out, over night including the "extra bleheri"

I'd say one in a community tank is fine, so if mixing stick with one,

 

[gigas12]

Hi,channa bleheri needs a species tank,like most if not all channa species!

 

[-DC-]

Many snakeheads can be put in community tanks as long as u select the right tank mates ie other tough fish that are larger then the snakehead, species tank is better but there are several species that will mix , however many species like bleheri are sub tropical, there are other choices equally attractive that would be better suited for tropical temps, recearch the various species and go from there. The other thing to keep in mind is that your chances of a working community tank with snakeheads is to grow them out with the tankmates however they grow very quickly.

 

[Acura_RSX]

as for the canada price .. last time i checked either spencer jack or oliver lucans had bleheri .. dont remember which one it was. and think they were around 40 each i think. pm me if u dont know who they are and ill link u their sites

 

[-DC-]

Ya i belive Oliver had them around that price at one point didn't see any on the last list, and my local source has them at that price right now in shop

 

[RAI CARL SANTOS]

hi i would like to ask something because tomorrow i will add my new 6' senegal bichir to my tank. right now my tank had one 5' dwarf snakehead and with 4 goldfish and 1 ID shark . i would like to ask if they would work fine with each other?

 

[Madou]

What I did with my Polys that are still in my Auranti pair was to adapt to the Channa. They're much more calm, but mine are all doing very fine. I don't think they would be fine doing this two years in a row, but for this winter, they have no choice, and I have had no death nor sign or illness. They eat every 3-4 days like the channas, sometimes less, but that is probably best with colder temps.

So if you want to make it work, I think the only way is to go sub-tropical with no heater and pray your bichirs are tough. I have 2 ornates, 1 senegal, and all 3 are alright, but for how long...

The other way around won't work, bleheris will fade and eventually die. So that is definitely not an option.

 

[-DC-]

Since this post was revived from 5 years ago I wish to state for the record that I disagree with my own post from the past. Lol

Like everyone back then when I got into channa the internet was riddled with incorrect information and backed up by many "success stories" that later went bad . I've had several more years of research and much more hands on experience since those days and have learned like many people back then that the subtropical species and their requirements were highly misunderstood and that those success stories are short lived.

Maduo, just FYI years back I dabbled with slowly lowering tropical fish into the lower temps to try and find that happy medium (including bichirs) . It seems to work well at first but just like keeping channa too warm keeping the bichirs too cold eventually catches up with them. First it slows them down a bit but otherwise they seemed perfectly healthy , unfortunately the real damage is happening internally , mainly because they can't digest food properly and this results in sudden deaths with no symptoms ( other then the lethargic behavior which in hind site was a warning sigh ) small meals might slow/delay the damage but I fear your setting yourself up for the same leson I learned the hard way !

I know in your case your doing what you can with what you have but just wanted to share what I learned when I tried .