Help me stock my future bichir tank.
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for your 80 gallon, make sure it is wide and long..as bichirs like to swim around alot, and quite big over time. Favorite right now for me, are my 2 senegals.. they are very active.
For 80 gallons which is standard size of 48"x18"x22". You can keep mostly dwarf specy bichirs and maybe squeeze one Endli or Ornate in there. If you stick with dwarf species such as senegals, polli palmas, palmas palmas, delhezi, and albino senegals you'll still have a nice setups. You could keep 8-10 of these if you overfilter your tank and do weekly waterchanges.
I'd stay away from anything that gets muchover a foot. My 14" ornate looks cramped in his 48x20x20" (~80g) tank.
Senegals, dels, palmas would be good, or you could go for some short-bodied endli's....
Senegals, dels, palmas would be good, or you could go for some short-bodied endli's....
I currently have an Albino Senegal and Ornate in a 30 gallon(They will be moved to my 47 gallon tank in case they get too cramped). Although I doubt my ornate will be in my new 80 gallon as it will be the largest one there and apparently there is a good chance of him becoming a bully(which confuses me a little honestly, he seldom leaves his cave and runs to it's protection whenever someone is in sight). The tank is a corner Venezia Model 350 http://www.seapets.co.uk/product-details/stkcode/660056/category/1203.html
I'm not buying it from there but it is the exact same tank, the dimensions are 122cm L x 87cm W x 135cm H according to the site and hold 350 litres. So it is really an 87.5 gallon tank according to 4 litres = 1 U.S gallon. 350/4 = 87.5(I just rounded to 80 cause the aforementioned number is rather cumbersome, a dumb idea now that I think of it, sorry for any confusion this causes.)
I'm not buying it from there but it is the exact same tank, the dimensions are 122cm L x 87cm W x 135cm H according to the site and hold 350 litres. So it is really an 87.5 gallon tank according to 4 litres = 1 U.S gallon. 350/4 = 87.5(I just rounded to 80 cause the aforementioned number is rather cumbersome, a dumb idea now that I think of it, sorry for any confusion this causes.)
January is a long ways off. You may get other ideas for the tank before then. Your ornate will definitely be cramped in the 30, I'd put him in the 47 and leave the seng in the 30. A species you may want to consider is P. Palmas buettikoferi.
good thing ornates grow slow so you have plenty of time to get him to a tank bigger than 80 gallons! trust me, I got told off plenty of times on MFK for even thinking or purchasing an ornate to go into anything smaller than 120 gallons.