What do you guys keep with your bichirs??
- Thread starter tcarswell
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I keep my 8" ornate in a planted tank with angels, gourami, a severum and a green aro. I had 2 severum but the larger one bullied everybody so I moved him to another tank.
Mine is with 2 florida gars, a dumb blue acara which will not die, pleco(I know), and a raphael(which is totally awesome even though he never comes out).
I have had success with dack dempseys, severums, climbing perch, african knife fish, syno cats, gars, big clown loaches, even kissing gs, a pleco that has worked for me is L333. I have had mixed results with the bristlenose sp, some go after the slime coat it seems. But I keep mainly upperjaw sp. A hungry endli is very capable of eat some of what I listed. Festae is a no go, tried it worked for a while but she took over.
crisper;3254777; said:
I've seen it done before, 3 huge ornates and 3 massive senegals in a 3000L tank with [among other things] a group of large adult discus. Starting out with larger discus would be a good idea though.
I keep my big ornate with an asian aro, dats, eartheaters, severums, uarus, a royal plec and a tyre track eel. More peacefull south american cichlids make great tankmates for polys.
swede;3254008; said:
bichers and pretty much all other fish can live fine in brackish water, the salt is actually good for them... I have mine with gars and a mild tempered dempsey in one tank and my other with a smaller marble gudgeon and a couple columbian shark... all seem to do well as long as size is appropriate with their tank mates
i got silver dollars, fire eel, giant gourami, silver arowana and a common pleco together with my bichirs. (2 delhezi 2 ornate 1 senegal 1 albino senegal)
