bichir

So I forgot plecos eat bichir slimecoats when I let my girlfriend get a Delhezi Bichir for her 125 gallon african tank today. He's only about 2 or 3 inches right now, would it be a good idea to move him to my molly tank with about 20 adult mollies and a tiny bristlenose pleco until we can get a...

I don't have a good quality camera so can't show photos, does anyone know if bloat is a large jutting bump at the abdomen or can look like overall thick/fat? It's a 5 inch bichir and it doesn't really have a bump, more so just very thick/fat, and it had a back end floating issue that went away...

Hi guys, I'm just about to finalise the delivery of the new tank inhabitants, on way are: 1 x Delhezi @ 4: 1 x Endlicheri @ 4" 1 x 4 bar Indo Dat @ 4" 3 x Tinfoils at unknown size as of yet And 1 x Hepsetus Odoe as soon as I can source one locally. My question is, although the Bichir and...

First off, I have been researching my favorite fish. Every time I have a question about Bichirs, Google has turned me to this forum (literally every time lol). So I figured Why not join? I use the term paludarium loosely. Idealy I am looking to get an Aqueon 210. The top 5-7 inches or so will...

I just wonder why his anal fin swollen like that? He is eat and act like normal one (not like a sick or ill fish). Anybody can help me what's wrong with him? Thanks before :)

Hey everyone. My ornate bichir had a scratch(maybe a burn from heater, maybe puncture from something sharp in the tank) the first week of December. It has since then opened into a big red sore. He's slowed down a lot, and I can't figure out how to heal it. Upped my water changes to 50% per...

Hey all! I'm about to switch this tank over to a sand substrate (finally), and then the whole gang's moving into a 120g later in the spring. So this is sort of the last hurrah for this particular setup, which has been running more or less interrupted for the last decade. The tank's a mess, but...

My Endi bichir eats very slow. I put the food right in front of him yet he lets it sit in front of him for sometimes up to a minute or more before he eats it. He also rarely moves from this one hiding spot he has, and is just overall a inactive fish. alive had him for about 3 weeks and he's...

It was suggested I made a thread and showed my babies - eh why not. I have 3 currently. Ornate - Molly Endlicheri - River Senegal - Jack Eventually would like to own a teugelsi and retropinnis. Show and tell me about yours please!

Could I add a delhezi bichir in my 75 with my roughly 6 inch senegal? If so how big would I have to get a dehlezi for him to be safe? Current stock: • 1 6 inch senegal bichir • 1 4-5 inch zig zag eel • 2 synodontis • 1 banjo • african butterflyfish • 4 red ruby barbs ( prob getting rid of) •...

I noticed a few days ago my zig zag eel had a bit of discoloration on him, then today I did a water change and noticed 1 of my clown loaches and a few ruby red barbs have like very small bubble like thing throughout their body, is this ich? If so what is the best way to treat it and how...

not sure if I spelled it right, but I think this is how my LFS spelled it. I was just wondering if anyone has kept a full size one and if so how big it got and how aggressive they are. one of the only things I've heard is that they haven't been in the hobby that long, I think since 2004. also if...

I was wondering would my 3 pbs 2 dats and bichir would do fine if the temperature was 85 till they get bigger then I would bring it down to 83 would they be good or what it not work

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I got a peacock eel about a week ago and I haven't seen or been able to get it to eat, it just kinda chills behind the intake for my filter, today I did a water change and it seemed to stress it out a bit and it came out and I noticed it was pretty damn skinny, I feed sinking shrimp pellets and...

Curious if anyone has experience or knowledge in regard to this topic, thank you ahead of time. 1. Do they digest at the same rate we do? 2. If they are still full/stomach bulge after 8+ hours, did they overeat? 3. Does age/raw tilapia vs. pellets play a factor in their digestion rate?

So my question is if have 1 125 gallon W/ common wolf fish 6 inch Endelzi bichir 6 inch Cuban cichlid 10 inch Jaguar cichlid 8 inch The Cuban and jaguar are a mateing pair I also have a 150 gallon W/red wolf 6 inch Fire eel Black diamond cichlid 4 inch...

I finally got my first bichir! ( sorry he's hard to get a pic of ) he's only maybe 3 and a half inches and I got him yesterday, he's in a 75 with 5 pictus cats. I feed the cats tubefix worms and they go crazy for them but I never saw my bichir eat so what do they normally eat? I saw him eat a...

Got my 75 setup and will be getting a senegal bichir, a peacock eel and a zig zag eel soon. I want a larger schooling fish so I was thinking clown loaches but they will eventually outgrow the tank, bala sharks also came to mind but I'm not sure how fast they would outgrow the tank, then I came...

I have a 75 setup and I plan on getting 1 senegal bichir 1 peacock eel and 1 zig zag eel, I was gonna get a small school of clown loaches and just trade then out when they got big but my LFS had 2 roughly 6 inch channel cats. I do a lot of fishing and channels are what I love catching so could I...