Evil baby beuttikoferi!

[Cohazard]

i wouldn't keep these 2 species together as the buttie grows it will probably attempt to kill your bichirs,polys aren't very territorial towards other fish especially large aggressive cichlids,a friend of mine couldn't keep a 10" buttie in with 4 12"-14" oscars as it was just too bad tempered

Seriously? Search for a clip called "Life in the 95" by a user named Dozer0011 on youtube.

It's a coool video that shows some big polys, including a buett, living together peacefully with africanbrown knife smaller than them, even some syno cats smaller than them.

 

[jordanlewis100]

i don't doubt it but i'm just talking generally,butties living with other more peaceful fish is a rarity rather than the norm,maybe if grown together it would work also the bigger the tank the better as if there's more room for territory then fish will generally be more peaceful,but (as i'm sure you know ) all fish have their different personalities

 

[Cohazard]

Yes I know bichirs are very individual in their personality, I've just never heard of buetts being normally aggressive rather than laid back like most polys.

I hope the little guy settles down, it would be a PITA to have to keep it separated it's whole life.

 

[ironmunki]

i wouldn't keep these 2 species together as the buttie grows it will probably attempt to kill your bichirs,polys aren't very territorial towards other fish especially large aggressive cichlids,a friend of mine couldn't keep a 10" buttie in with 4 12"-14" oscars as it was just too bad tempered

are you talking about beuttikoferi bichirs or the other fish? i thought cohaz was talking about strictly bichirs.

 

[Cohazard]

are you talking about beuttikoferi bichirs or the other fish? i thought cohaz was talking about strictly bichirs.

Now that makes more sense. I'm speaking strictly bichirs, thus, posted in the bichir forum.

 

[is300zx]

People are confusing buttikoferi cichlids with BUETtikoferi bichirs.

 

[Mudfrog]

I had a 10" Buettikoferi and it was semi aggressive during feeding, but it was the largest bichir in the tank as well. Now the really crazy part with him was every time I did a water change it would slam into the cover like it was trying to escape. It was the only one to do this and he did it hard too. That guy was crazy lol.

 

[ironmunki]

my buet is the 2nd smallest in a tank of about 7 polys. i've never seen any aggression from him at all. he is kinda like in his own little world.