I'm getting a Senegal - I have some questions :)

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1000$ on two senegals, man oh man you Aussies got it rough... But if you get them breeding... $$$$$$$$$

I would give them pristine water, soft and slightly acidic, and condition them with the best foods money can buy. Then I would do my weekly water changes with maybe 3-5 degree cooler water, add a few ice cubes to simulate rain... And pray.


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...dam.. $400 for a sengal that sucks...I just saw a post by one of the vendors here selling 10 inch senegal for $10. However I'm pretty sure that sengal you have purchased was worth it as I have seen them and they are great! Good Luck
 
I am a PhD student in zoology. I never even thought of looking that kind of info up through the journals. Any really good ones I should look up?

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There are a few good ones - a lot of them will not interest your average hobbyish (too scientific, irrelevant to hobbyists, too old (the authorities on the subjects wrote most of the good articles around 1900).

I will make a list of good ones and post the list here for people to get an idea of what to look for.

So far the most promising is "comportement et reproduction en captivite de polypterus senegalus" by J.Arnoult. It's in French so I'm getting a Canadian buddy to translate it for me.
 
Sounds lik you are a planted tank guy. I like that :P

I keep my bichirs in a tank that is much like yours (I still need to get co2 though)
I'm going for that hi tech feel as well, already have 4 54w t5-HO on my tank of same size as yours, dosing ei as well, with a pump for water movement.

My substrate is eco complete, doesn't bug the bichirs at all. Only issue though is that, especially my big endli, tends to uproot plants with poor root systems with just the force from his tail. So super delicate stems don't do that well for me. But if its rooted or a thick stem, they stay put and grow for me. Swords, Crinums, Crypts ,Dwarf Lillies/Lotus, Hygros, and I am going to try some harder to find ludwigia, rotala, and more limnophia aromatica soon as well. For some reason though, I feel like bichirs would appreciate a carpet of plants on the bottom of the tank....or just a lot of plants that they can lay down on. My sen also loves chilling with the anubias I have as well.
 
I am :)

I had a high tech planted tank but decided to tear it down and get into bichirs. Plants were getting too hard with algae and I had spent thousands trying to get it to look Like amanos.

I'll still keep plants, but the focus will be on the fish not the plants. Will keep my red lotuses and I'll get a few good stem plants and some anubias. I want to keep it African.


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What african stem plants are there? Don't forget about bolbitis, and more or less any apongeton species.

Can't beat the look of madagascar lace plant if you find one, and mine seem to grow really well with my bichirs.

I'll make a thread on here eventually if I can go full on hi-tech with my bichirs :P
Gunna try getting a carpet of glosso and s. repens with them lol I must enjoy pain or something XP
 
Thanks for the tips. I tried glosso and spent hundreds trying to get it to grow. No luck :(

Madagascar's are around $100 each here so unlikely to get it haha. Trying to keep it north african.

Any idea what flow rate I should have?


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