Minimum Safe Sizes?

Zmouvek

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a bottomless pit.
I recently acquired a little bichir, and have been thinking about getting other fish, but that has led me to a question : What IS a good minimum, there has to be some set dimension of size where it can be swallowed and not (at least for a specific species at specific size), like, we know that it's not just length but height, since things are khuli loaches sometimes get noshed by bichirs anyways. I am mostly thinking about this in terms of stuff like Dwarf Pikes or Upside Down Catfish, smaller fish that have a long but not stick like shape to them, how safe would they be? For the purposes or consistency, I think it's best to first examine the Upside Down Syno.
 

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It’s pretty much impossible to make that call without knowing the species. Big enough to live with a sen would be a snack for an endli.
 
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Zmouvek

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It’s pretty much impossible to make that call without knowing the species. Big enough to live with a sen would be a snack for an endli.
Well for me I have a polli, but I'm mostly speaking specifically to the Small Upper Jaw's, Polli, Palmas, Retropinnis, and Delhezi.
 
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My electric blue acara does well in my tank and I have 2 Senegals and a delhezi in there
 
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