I want another one but the one I have is 7" and the ones the pet stores get in are 4"
I'm concerned mine might eat the new one even though I keep my tank stocked with feeder guppies...
People with experience with this type of fish no google paste please I've read the while eating anything in their mouths, half their size and are good with their own species....
I'm looking for experience please and I have a 75 gallon tank so no lectures please just those two bichirs would be in it and they require a minimum of 55 gallons.... I've been raising one for two years almost and want another.
No online breeders or store I've been burnt before and thanx in advance.
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i'm going to provide help to recognize what I save with mine. he's in a fifty 5 witha 14 inch Clown Knifefish, and eight inch Chocholate Cichlid, A 5 inch Synodonits Catfish, a 9 inch Prochilodus insignis, and 3 great Rainbow Cichlids. no one bothers every physique. you could save Bichirs with any cichlids that at the instant are not great aggressive, and maximum fish that are too enormous for them to consume.
Two hundred gallons? Seriously? Seventy-five is more than adequate for a pair of bichirs, so long as you're not keeping behemoths like Polypterus endlicheri that reach two and a half feet. Most species sold in pet stores are the smaller P. palmas and P. senegalensis which max out at twelve inches or so. This is what I assume you have. Yes, the larger may harass the smaller, but the sizes you quote would make it impossible for it to consume the smaller one. Best to set up a grow-out tank to get the smaller one up to at least 3/4 the size of the larger. Barring that, try removing the larger one, rearranging the tank, introduce the smaller one and let him settle in for a few hours and then putting the larger back in. This works for cichlids when a larger one has established a territory and new ones are introduced. The smaller one will have time to get his bearings, and when the larger is introduced to the "new" tank, he'll assume the smaller is in charge with an established territory. In the wild, smaller fishes regularly manage to fight off larger fishes that invade their territory. Possession is nine tenths of the law in the fish world to.
It is a risk but it could work depends on the temperament of your other Bichr but you do need at least 200 gallons