Surprise! It's a pair of Bichirs! Now What?

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CynSyn

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Ok... my mother was out of town and stopped by PetSmart since the closest one to us is 70 miles away. Mind you, I didn't know this until she handed me a bag full of smaller bags with 6 kuhli loaches and 2 of what I believe to be senegal bichirs (receipt says dinosaur bichir).

She figured that since I have 7 tanks running, I could just put them in the 55 gallon I'm cycling for some Koi Angelfish. That's not gonna happen. (The angels are tiny still and were given to me by my grandfather the day he passed away recently. I refuse to keep anything that could eat them in their tank.)

I've since explained to her that fish are not bubblegum and must be planned out. The kuhlis are in my angel tank because I wanted some anyway.

My question is, for the time being, what do I do? I can't take them back and she wants to keep them.
I have a 46 euro with 7 giant danio, a 45 tall with 3 skunk loach and a pink gourami, a 55 gallon with 7 bluegill, 2 3inch bullheads, and a red crayfish, a 30 gallon hex full of mystery snails, a 20 gallon with small black convicts (growing out) and a 10 gallon with the small angels and a few snails (also growing out until they go in the other 55 gal with kuhlis)

What should I move around? What habitat do I need, and is anything I have listed compatible? I can't move the skunk loaches to the tank with kuhlis since they've systematically hunted past kuhlis. I don't want the skunks eaten, because I've had them 6 years already.

Help?
 
Just add them to the 46 euro with the 7 giant danios...they shud be fine....dont need to move anything around imo.....They arent that picky about habitat just keep the water parameters good
 
I've read that they grow very quickly and can eat anything they can fit in their mouth. Is this suitable for short term only, or could this potentially be a long term solution with the danios?
 
well giant danio are relatively large, so i assume they would be fine together for long-term housing, butyou can never be too sure because bichirs are unpredictable.
 
Awesome.

I'm actually excited in spite of being nervous. I love "aquatic puppy dog" fish, and between what I've read and their antics in the quarantine tank, they seem to have good personality.

Do they escape as often as Violet Gobies? I have to get another strip guard for the back of my glass cover if that's the case.
 
CynSyn;4285556; said:
I've read that they grow very quickly and can eat anything they can fit in their mouth. Is this suitable for short term only, or could this potentially be a long term solution with the danios?
They dont grow THAT quick they shud be pretty good for long term and i would add the strip guard just in chance....better safe then sorry...i just had my ornate jump out on me last week and i thought bichirs wudnt be able to jump but he did:(
 
CynSyn;4285556; said:
I've read that they grow very quickly and can eat anything they can fit in their mouth. Is this suitable for short term only, or could this potentially be a long term solution with the danios?

Sens are one of the slowest growing polys, i have got 02 brown, 03albino sen. They seem to take for ever to grow. The danios will be ok with them. I have had my two brown to about a year now and the only grew abt 04cm.
 
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