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are you looking for size, color, aggression? it all depends on your taste. a 75 or a 55 are great started sizes, 75 obviously being better.
If your anything like me, youll fall in love with bichirs. I started keeping fish because they were so snake like, i have kept a couple snakes over the years and wanted to try something new. You could fit a delhezi bichir, senegal bichir (most common), mokelembembe, and all of the palmas species (beuttokoferri, palmas palmas, polli) for life in that size of a tank. They also deathroll like alligators sometimes, if the food is too big to swallow.
Very cool fish, very ancient, breaths air, sounds right up your alley.
And quite good to keep w/ other fish, as long as they dont suck slime coat or are big enough for the bichirs to eat (alive) ive had incidents where a fish died and my senegal had deathrolled a few chunks but didnt do the actual killing. Ive seen a couple people keep them w/ knife fish
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Very cool fish, very ancient, breaths air, sounds right up your alley.
And quite good to keep w/ other fish, as long as they dont suck slime coat or are big enough for the bichirs to eat (alive) ive had incidents where a fish died and my senegal had deathrolled a few chunks but didnt do the actual killing. Ive seen a couple people keep them w/ knife fish
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Im not sure what knife fish are like, but you may need slightly larger tankmates to avoid the knife potentially eating them all?
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birchirs also go with almost any fish that cant fit in its mouth, they are great fish, I currently have 3 with my ebjd, jd, and convict
i was saying how i have a couple knife fish picked out and maybe a tetra or two, plus the knife. what are some good medium sized freshwater peaceful fish?
Trust me knife fish can grow very large and their mouths can open quite wide as well so any small species of fish wouldn't really work, if you have your mind set on the knife fish mine seems to do well with my oscar, red tail catfish and birchirs. If you want some smaller more colorful fish you can always try out the assorted cichlids from your local pet store, you can get some really cool looking fish and best of all they don't grow too big! Best of luck in the new hobby!
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I could tell that you might vouch for gars, and bichirs... Maybe try some axolotl. It's fully aquatic also, it needs cool waters tho.
If you go with the bicher I would IMO try brown knife, or the black ghost knife, just make sure you have a hiding tube such as PVC for the black ghost knife.
. I personally would'nt try to keep both knife species in the same aquarium. Brown knife would be the hardiest of the two. Brown knife from Africa, Black Ghost Knife from South America.
. I personally would'nt try to keep both knife species in the same aquarium. Brown knife would be the hardiest of the two. Brown knife from Africa, Black Ghost Knife from South America.I have had Jack Dempsy's in the past. They are pretty easy to take care of and the iridescent colors are beautiful.
