What do you guys keep with your bichirs??

[wolfsburgfanatic]

Lungfish is also a good choice, but stay away from any African species as they are unpredictable and might kill the bichirs or take a chunk of meat out.

A lungfish would be sweet.

From what I've seen and read lungfish are a bad choice for community tanks. The only possible exception is the Australian Lungfish and they're hard to come by in the hobby.

I keep my senegals with congo tetras and african butterfly fish at the moment, but both would eventually become expensive feeders for a full grown Ornate. My suggestion is Severums - nice size, temperment, and personality

 

[frazzlerock5]

I'm a cichlid keeper through in a through out.... BUT... when I bought my 125g from a person off craigslist, it came with 2 senegals and 4 (that's right, 4) fancy goldfish. How retarded is that????

 

[wolfsburgfanatic]

at least they were in a 125g.. it could have been a lot worse

 

[King-eL]

A lungfish would be sweet. I would get a gar but the needlenose I had only ate live food and I despise of feeders now. Tough decision what about some kind of south american cichlid with personality?

Needlenose are not even a true gar species. They are characin.

 

[King-eL]

well i kept a scomb with my 3 birchirs in a 55g for several months and never had a problem they actually hungout sometime the payara would get real low with him and chill! but thats just something i wanted to add...

along with the fact he said the fish where in a 90Gallon i was just stating about a scomb because the tat and armatus would eventually outgrow the tank. i believe the tat will, havent owned one so i havent done much research yet but i think they may get to like 24" possibly.

Got a 8" scomb before got death rolled by my 9" sene and 10" delhezi.

 

[King-eL]

From what I've seen and read lungfish are a bad choice for community tanks. The only possible exception is the Australian Lungfish and they're hard to come by in the hobby.

I keep my senegals with congo tetras and african butterfly fish at the moment, but both would eventually become expensive feeders for a full grown Ornate. My suggestion is Severums - nice size, temperment, and personality

That's why I said stay awat from any african species. I have 2 50" and 39" SAL and 18" Aussie lungfish with my bichirs that are 21"-8", no problem.

 

[King-eL]

Datnoids, featherfins knifefis, naked back knifish, spiny eels, some mid-size doradid catfish, some mid-size tropical snakeheads, cichlids, mid-size barbs or characins.

 

[frazzlerock5]

I'm a cichlid keeper through in a through out.... BUT... when I bought my 125g from a person off craigslist, it came with 2 senegals and 4 (that's right, 4) fancy goldfish. How retarded is that????

Oh... and the lady called them "eels"

 

[crisper]

Can discus be kept with bichers. I think they would look great together in a planted tank.

 

[Austin]

mine are with aro's, pbass, gar, jade goby, dats, tigrinus. lots of options.