Polypterus Personalities

magpie

Potamotrygon
MFK Member
Jun 4, 2016
3,552
5,324
164
Oregon
I actually did get the Polli to hand feed a few times but she wasn't always in my face at dinner like the ropes. Sorry for the crap video - hard to hold a phone and watch through the screen while feeding fish with your fingers. Ha


Just swimming around in my fingers. (They are hoping for food.)
 

twentyleagues

Bronze Tier VIP
MFK Member
Apr 5, 2017
6,675
9,877
463
Flint town!
I actually did get the Polli to hand feed a few times but she wasn't always in my face at dinner like the ropes. Sorry for the crap video - hard to hold a phone and watch through the screen while feeding fish with your fingers. Ha


Just swimming around in my fingers. (They are hoping for food.)
magpie magpie your tank was sooo cool! I am blessed to have your noodles swimming in my soup....lol. Sounds kinda dirty too..lmao I need to leave this post as is.

To be honest though thank you. They are great and I love them all.
 

Sarahmander

Piranha
MFK Member
Sep 11, 2018
229
515
77
San Diego
In my limited experience the Pollis are more Sen-like in that mine swam around a lot and actually begged at me for food - a nicely interactive fish. Mine was (now belongs to clm08k clm08k ) CB and I'm not sure if that makes a difference.

My Moke was (also now with clm08k clm08k ) gorgeous - so green and in the middle ground for hiding and activity - would do both. I had a really densely planted tank, though. If you have hiding spots, they will hide sometimes. That's just polys in general.

But if I were you, with that stock, I would go with 3-5 ropes. They are similar, yet different in shape and they way they swim, which is so graceful and soothing. They're active when there's enough cover, they 'snuggle' with each other and the other polys, and for wild caught fish they can get super hand tame with patience. Mine (now twentyleagues twentyleagues ) would eat out of my fingers and swim through my fingers / hands. Plus they look like they're smiling all the time. :) I'm a big fan.

How do you plan on decorating your 100? I am really into planted, natual looking tanks. That being said, I now always say that if I were to do it over again with polys of any type, I'd find a balance between having plants and driftwood or other natural cover that provided cover up in the top / middle of the tank height but leave more floor space open. For example, lotus plants (foliage mostly at the top), floating plants, some wood with anubias tied on but not many rooted plants. Maybe even have the wood suspended so it was more like the edge of a river/lake, coming down into the water. Some rocks for the bottom but not any caves.

I think it'd be a nice way to still have the natural look and the benefit of the plants, but see the polys more often as they hang out on the floor. I do think that most fish find comfort in cover, and they could still get that without as many hides below in a setup like that. When I was tearing down my 65 I pulled all of my rooted plants and let them float for a while. It was cool to see all of the polys all of the time but still not have a more bare tank - that spawned the idea.

So that's my long opinionated post. LOL
I just brought home a huge piece of manzanita that I am going to put in there and I have anubis and moss. My tank right now is lightly planted and i think I will keep it that way. I don't want to worry too much about taking care of the plants. I was thinking about a sand fall in the corner, but it would honestly just take up space. My bichirs love moving around the spiderwood I have for them now, and I like watching them perch on it, but they still don't have spots where they can hide entirely.

About the ropes... my LFS is ordering in 5 and some "varied" bichirs, so I'll be able to check those out on Tuesday.
 

Sarahmander

Piranha
MFK Member
Sep 11, 2018
229
515
77
San Diego
I actually did get the Polli to hand feed a few times but she wasn't always in my face at dinner like the ropes. Sorry for the crap video - hard to hold a phone and watch through the screen while feeding fish with your fingers. Ha


Just swimming around in my fingers. (They are hoping for food.)
Yeah... I'm kinda sold. Beautiful tank, by the way.
 
  • Like
Reactions: magpie
zoomed.com
hikariusa.com
aqaimports.com
Store