Ropefish and Bichir stocking help

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Hello.

I am looking to set up a tank with hopefully some rope fish or bichirs with maybe some congo tetras in with plants.

The tank I have measures 120cm x 40cm x 55cm which is 240 litres. I was wondering if I opted for rope fish and congo tetras what numbers could go or if the bichir route was better as I've never kept rope or bichirs before.

Would it be possible to house 3 rope fish for life in this tank or 2 and 1 bichir or just 2 ropes?

Sorry just looking for advice and tank sizes online vary massively
 
tlindsey said:
I suggest a small bichir species CB Senegal or Moke.
I don't have experience with the ropefish so hopefully others will chime in.
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Yes, your tank is large enough to house 3 ropefish, even more than that especially if you give them hiding places. You can mix ropefish with upper jaw bichirs such as delhezi, ornate or senegalus if you wanted to. You can add Congo tetras as top dwellers as well 🙏
 
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tlindsey said:
I suggest a small bichir species CB Senegal or Moke.
I don't have experience with the ropefish so hopefully others will chime in.
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Thanks! I was looking at senegal bichirs but I know nothing about them most of my recent research has been based on rope fish rather than bichirs.

Thanks for the reply.

Caveden said:
Yes, your tank is large enough to house 3 ropefish, even more than that especially if you give them hiding places. You can mix ropefish with upper jaw bichirs such as delhezi, ornate or senegalus if you wanted to. You can add Congo tetras as top dwellers as well 🙏
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Great! The tank isn't even set up yet and probably won't be until after Christmas so it's all planning at the moment. My intention was to try lay down some PVC pipe work as tunnels and caves and try lay sand over them and plant them with plants to hide the pipe but I'm not sure if that might be too complex so probably gonna have to YouTube and see what's what lol.

How would bichir and rope fish fare together are they OK to mix?

Congo should finish the tank nicely!

Thanks for the reply
 
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LBUK said:
Thanks! I was looking at senegal bichirs but I know nothing about them most of my recent research has been based on rope fish rather than bichirs.

Thanks for the reply.



Great! The tank isn't even set up yet and probably won't be until after Christmas so it's all planning at the moment. My intention was to try lay down some PVC pipe work as tunnels and caves and try lay sand over them and plant them with plants to hide the pipe but I'm not sure if that might be too complex so probably gonna have to YouTube and see what's what lol.

How would bichir and rope fish fare together are they OK to mix?

Congo should finish the tank nicely!

Thanks for the reply
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Bichirs and ropefish do great together. For congo tetras, I'd recommend at least 6--8, with a mix of males and females.
 
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Caveden said:
Yes, your tank is large enough to house 3 ropefish, even more than that especially if you give them hiding places. You can mix ropefish with upper jaw bichirs such as delhezi, ornate or senegalus if you wanted to. You can add Congo tetras as top dwellers as well 🙏
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Definitely not ornate, but sens, mokes, dels and probably palmas should be fine with ropes
 
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After doing some more research I think I am leaning more towards a ropefish and congo tetra setup.

I understand a sand substrate is best for them and would like to do a planted tank but have never tried one before and wondered which plants would be easy to grow as a beginner and how hard it would be to do in sand? Is it possible to achieve a decent plant setup without having to dose co2 etc? I've looked on YouTube and people are suggesting gas cannisters and things like that which if possible I'd like to avoid lol.

Thanks in advance
 
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LBUK said:
plants would be easy to grow as a beginner and how hard it would be to do in sand? I
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I personally was hesitant about Amazon Swords but I have them after a few yrs now. The easiest plants imo are Anubius but you can't bury the rhizome of the plant or it will rot. Most people attached them to driftwood with fishing line or sewing thread.
LBUK said:
gas cannisters
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I don't use them.
 
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