Hello! I'm just wanting to get everyone's opinion on eventually putting my bowfin and bichir together. Right now they are both babies and in separate tanks. I wont be putting them together until they are about the same size as I've had my bowfin since February and my bichir I got a little over a week ago.
Bowfin and Bichir as tank mates?
- Thread starter BailyRivera
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Never kept a Bowfin but have seen members with them with Bichir. I would keep them separate to make sure Bichir don't have any parasites or any other health related issues.
Polyaddict86
has both bichirs and a bowfin. He can give some advice. But size has to be close.
I've owned bowfins in the past, and one bichir (coincidentally, an ornate). They lived together in a community of large fish and never paid any attention to each other or anybody else too big to eat.
Bowfins may look like snakeheads but they are pussycats by comparison. Voracious eaters, yes, but not aggressive to non-food targets.
Bowfins may look like snakeheads but they are pussycats by comparison. Voracious eaters, yes, but not aggressive to non-food targets.
I am very skeptical of this in the long run. Bowfin get big and they have a big mouth. The Florida record is 19lbs. If size is similar it will work for a while, but fishing for them they have taken some pretty big baits. I agree on the aggression I don't think they will be bullies, but eating a tankmate is not out of the question.
not my pic
not my pic
Eating tankmates is not out of question, but captivity is way different than in the wild. Most fish will be smaller when captuve-bred