Polypterus with Elephant Nose?

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peewee you seem to have lost track on what this thread was about. stl2pab wanted to know if elephantnoses and birchirs would mix. you decided he should add an aba aba or lungfish! are you crazy??? lungfish should be species only yes i have kept one for 7 years and it killed everything except plecostomus. no i havent had an aba aba but they use electrial pulses to navigate/locate food etc as do elephant nose. now unless stl2pab has a very large tank you shouldnt mix these types of fish. not to mention the elephant nose would not be able to defend itself against even an overly aggressive guppy! quite frankly i think your suggestions are stupid but then you do take fishkeeping to the EXTREME so who am i to argue! hahahahaha

i don't even understand why those suggestions were made in the first place , even the sexfaciatus. It's obvious from stl2pab's post that he intends this to be a community of relatively small fish.

stl2pab: i'd try frozen worms (bloodworms etc) and see if that works. also it probably still hasn't settled in yet.

 

[stl2pab]

I think he's gonna be alright. First couple days he kinda hung out by the filter near the top, now he hides in a cave all day (where I can see him luckily), and it's been over a week and his belly isn't suken and I've seen him go after a few worms. Think things are gonna be ok, and soon I'm gonna rearrange things and add alot more caves and maybe some new plants this weekend. I would get congo tetras cuz I think they're awesome, BUT they're pretty expensive and buenos aires tetras look almost exactly like an african tetra I saw on fishbase, so I'm gonna probly go with those. . . . it really irritates me to mix fish from different places, but if they look pretty much the same I think I can deal with it. Anyway, when I get the tank lookin how I want and get my camera together I'll post some pics. Oh, and I saw there's a catfish from the congo that looks just like a glass catfish, so I might get a school of those too. . . . money and time gotta line up, so I guess we'll just see what happens. Thanks for the input.

 

[lungfishlover]

good luck hope to see some pics - i have a few suggestions for plants too, anubias varieties such as nana and barterii(i think) and as a centrepiece you can add a nymphaea lilly which i have and my birchirs love to hide under its leaves