What do you guys keep with your bichirs?

[Nim Dibbley]

What do you guys keep with your bichirs? i keep a red tail giant gourami with mine. but im kinda bored with my setup. I want to add another active fish or two, but it seems the right combo might be difficult to achieve.

the biggest bichir is a 17 inch ornate. i tried to add a 6 inch cichlid of questionable lineage and the ornate stalked it and snapped at it for about an hour before i decided to remove it. i really thought the cichlid would be too big to eat, but the ornate didnt agree.

 

[Thekid]

What do you guys keep with your bichirs? i keep a red tail giant gourami with mine. but im kinda bored with my setup. I want to add another active fish or two, but it seems the right combo might be difficult to achieve.

the biggest bichir is a 17 inch ornate. i tried to add a 6 inch cichlid of questionable lineage and the ornate stalked it and snapped at it for about an hour before i decided to remove it. i really thought the cichlid would be too big to eat, but the ornate didnt agree.

More Birchers.


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[Nim Dibbley]

More Birchers.


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good response, but not what im looking for.

 

[MrBlueDream]

Maybe a jardini?

 

[Thekid]

Dats, large chiclids, Rays, catfish, and arowannas all work


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[Dr.B]

I keep mine with gar and irwini catfish

 

[Nim Dibbley]

i have the giant gourami already. so that limits me. no jardini with that. true gars are illegal in CA. datnoids would be cool, but i hear they take forever to grow and if i find a large one the prices on those are pretty extreme.

 

[S4Detroit]

I have Monoculus Pbass with mine and a few large Cory cats. I even kept a Flowerhorn with them before. You could get some large Tin foil barbs.

 

[Vancouver_98683]

The question is what your giant gourami is willing to tolerate. I had a gray, it got big and messed with everything except bichirs. Than got a true albino gouramy then the same. Once those effers get past 12" they can get mean. Most that is.

So agreed with the "more bichirs" until gourami is no longer the boss. But I see In Your signature that it's humungous and perhaps uber friendly.

 

[Nim Dibbley]

The question is what your red tail giant gourami is willing to tolerate. I had a gray, it got big and messed with everything except bichirs. Than got a true albino gouramy then the same. Once those effers get past 12" they can get mean. Most that is.

So agreed with the "more bichirs" until gourami is no longer the boss

i just tried to add a 6 inch cichlid (flowerhorn hybrid thing,) and after about 10 mins of the gourami following it around, he lost interest. maybe it wouldnt have worked in the long term, but the real prob was the ornate trying to eat the cichlid. i think the cichlid was small enough the gourami didnt consider it a threat.