I have a bunch of giant danios in with 7 UJ/LJ bichir and not a single one has been eaten
Schooling fish with Bichirs?
- Thread starter SwampFins
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Biggest are my 13" ornate and teugelsi. My lap and ansorgii are just a tad smaller but much thicker.
Not sure if it makes a difference, but my tank is 29" high and the danios stay at the top, while my polys only come to the top for air.
The danios have been in 6+ months with no lost to poly stomachs.
they eventually will be food they are shaped perfectly depending on your tank size I'd use a deep bodied fish like silver dollars or something similarly shaped maybe some dats ?
Agreed. My dels took out a school of 10 giant danios when they were only 8". It took them about 2 months and they had grown up with them. At that point they had never had live food as I had them since they were about 1".
I alternate mine with sinking pellets live shrimp and baby mollies well I say alternate but what really happens is I give them pellets twice a week and the rest of the time they are hunters and I know they are eating because they have little knots in their tummy's
Lucky for the danios, I have a 360g being delivered this week that all my big guys will be moving into. Then the danios will share their 170g with only a pink tail chalceus and a lone synodontis.
Tell you what - you convince my wife of that and I'll let you pick out the fish.
Apparently my fish budget has been spent with the purchase of this new tank...
Im really not on the SD thing. Ive never really liked them in person as in owning them, they are kind of a PIA personality wise. Eat your plants, gobble your food so no one else gets a chance, and are fairly aggressive to quite a few other fish. They always look nice in groups though.
