''Dream bichir tank''

[RandomAlgae]

Crikey... you have to much spare time on your hands. But sounds awesome! Wouldn't recommend diving with crocs, but you do you. Also what does teaching crocs no to eat toads do if you are trying to get them to not eat fish?

Well depending on specie diving with captive Niles croc is dangerous to a degree but not suicidal like diving with Saltie. Diving with captive tame Gharial is safe though Tomistoma is also relatively safe to dive with if they are habituated to people.

I say i wouldn't use such method but using the same logic if i gave it a bichir injected with small amount of poison the croc would learn (erroneously) that bichir is poisonous.

 

[Bara fisk]

Since this is a dream and not posted in bichir section mine would be Bawitius bartheli in Kem kem biotope.

But if i would answer seriously it would be Nile river theme.

Clear water.

Substrate: On deep section it will be heavy mud and dirt but along the perimeter it will be sand with rocks and gravel along the transition areas.

Decor: Rocks and Wood with floating plants and Nymphea and Pistia as well as some Azolla for the herbivores and Valisneria over deep ammonia trapping substrate bed and Papyrus plant along some part of the margin.

Size: 18×30 meter (18×45 if Nile crocodile can be added) it will be 4.5 meter deep at deepest.

Specie: Polypterus bichir.

Water temperature and PH: 27C° and PH 7.

Country: I live in Thailand and i have never seen P.bichir for sale or most of the tankmate I will list as well.

Tankmates: Clarotes laticeps, Trionyx triunguis, Labeobarbus bynni, Oreochromis niloticus, Hydrocynus vittatus

and if there is a way to stop Nile crocodile from eating my large fishes that doesn't involve animal abuse (it seem feeding young crocs small toad teach them to avoid toads altogether because they remember that toads are poisonous) Crocodylus niloticus (1 male, 2 female).

Lid space: No lid it will be a pond with underground viewing panel and a glass bottom boat.

Sape of the tank: Free form pond with slope to the land area with a undergound veiwing room shaped like half circle with flat window projecting into the pond and curved area have small round viewing window peering into nursery area (heavily planted and decorated allowing small fishes to replenish their numbers) the viewing plat form only go down to 3 meter deep and the room is only 2.1 meter tall. The roof of the room is walking board with ladder into water if I feel like diving in.

This probably will never happen for real though too expensive and used too much space.

the bichir aquarium i could hope to have would be 3×3 meter by 1.2 deep housing P.ornatipinnis with a lake Tanganyika cichlids.

Very very interesting that you'r also into crodiles i recently got a stuffed caiman that my grandfather picked up many years ago when he was in the army, overseas somewhere i think it was. i've been playing with the idea of getting a caiman , i think there is laws to it tough! the smallest caiman in the world gets to 1.9 m (male ) and 1.2m (female ) and if i remember it correctly a 1.2 female would need 20k liters / 5000 gallons ) + some land space , which is alot but really not impossible , i think its 500cm x 400x cm and 100 cm depth , + and maybe 200x200x100-125cm heigh ish land area, ALSO might be possible to try bichirs in that tank size since if i get bigger ones ( like the 70-100 cm wild caught ones ) i doubt the caiman would go for them especially since i want to growth the caiman out and planning as getting it as a baby

 

[RandomAlgae]

Very very interesting that you'r also into crodiles i recently got a stuffed caiman that my grandfather picked up many years ago when he was in the army, overseas somewhere i think it was. i've been playing with the idea of getting a caiman , i think there is laws to it tough! the smallest caiman in the world gets to 1.9 m (male ) and 1.2m (female ) and if i remember it correctly a 1.2 female would need 20k liters / 5000 gallons ) + some land space , which is alot but really not impossible , i think its 500cm x 400x cm and 100 cm depth , + and maybe 200x200x100-125cm heigh ish land area, ALSO might be possible to try bichirs in that tank size since if i get bigger ones ( like the 70-100 cm wild caught ones ) i doubt the caiman would go for them especially since i want to growth the caiman out and planning as getting it as a baby

I do like crocs I like Sunda gavial(Tomistoma schlegelii) especially, hope to keep a pair some day. It is the animal in my profile pic. They also get massive female over 4 meter are not rare and male can get over 5 m with multiple specimen alledgedly been measured at 6 m. From what I have seen they are roughly the same size as Saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus.)

I assume you are talking about Cuvier dwarf caiman (Paleosuchus palpebrosus).

They prefer hides in a burrow on land but live mostly in water so they need at least enough land area for hides.

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I don't know if you are into Stingray or not but they seem to be viable tankmates. Especially for Paleosuchus which often spent the night on land.

 

[Bara fisk]

I do like crocs I like Sunda gavial(Tomistoma schlegelii) especially, hope to keep a pair some day. It is the animal in my profile pic. They also get massive female over 4 meter are not rare and male can get over 5 m with multiple specimen alledgedly been measured at 6 m. From what I have seen they are roughly the same size as Saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus.)

I assume you are talking about Cuvier dwarf caiman (Paleosuchus palpebrosus).

They prefer hides in a burrow on land but live mostly in water so they need at least enough land area for hides.

Google Scholar

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I don't know if you are into Stingray or not but they seem to be viable tankmates. Especially for Paleosuchus which often spent the night on land.

Didn't know that ! i havent had stingrays nope been wanting it since atleast from what i've seen its kinda the next level of monster fisk keeping ^^ but i saw kgtropicals i think they're called and he said something about just touchign the barb while cleaning the tank ( a dropped barb ) and the said his hand felt numb for about 5 days after that and i got rather unsure after that , also im sure this isnt really a real issue and its a 1 in a 100 but i have also seen stingrays killing a bichir with its barb once again even the video owner said he was really chocked and he had them both for years before that happened