Schooling fish with Bichirs?

[SwampFins]

So I have been making some changes around in the last few months and currently have sort of a central American planted community tank thing going on, bichirs aside of course lol

Everyone has gotten along great so far. I have my bichirs eating pellets now and gaining some size.

2 days ago I decided to introduce a school of 10 green barbs hoping they'd do fine and grow in the tank as everyone gets established. However my delhezi had other plans and decided to eat 4 barbs in one night, and 1 more the next.

This is not surprising in a way as that's just what they do, but I didn't think he'd go that crazy over them as they are still eating plenty of pellets and I have never done live food with them.

Anyhow, I am now wondering what kind of schooling fish options might be good with bichirs. What do you guys keep with yours?

I had some silver dollars but they started mowing my plants so I traded them in for the barbs.... and well, you can see how that played out lol

Look at this fatty ---->

 

[fishhead0103666]

Congo tetras grow bigger than the everage tetra, it’s worth a shot.

 

[kno4te]

Barbs (teardrop/filament) always went well with upper jaws. I know Vancouver_98683 has some Apollo sharks with his polys. Looked really nice.

 

[Vancouver_98683]

U can try anything 3- 4 times the length of their head.

 

[BichirKing]

silver dollars get big enough.

 

[twentyleagues]

I had filamented barbs looked great but ate all my plants. Tried congos put 14 in lost 2 almost immediately and pulled 12 out one was baddly hurt but has since healed these were 3" adults. Could try some other larger tetras, Columbian, diamond, bleeding heart.

 

[BichirKing]

vampire tetra?
how big is your tank?

 

[twentyleagues]

vampire tetra?
how big is your tank?

Pretty sure that would be bad for the other fish eventually.

 

[Chefken]

Pink Tailed Chalceus....Cool little predator

 

[SwampFins]

Thank you for the suggestions. I do like the way the Congo Tetras look and the Filament Barbs. Never heard of these before. Are they good with other fish and plants?

As for my tank, I have a 125 gallon with 3 canister filters.

The picture below is not current as I sold a bunch of fish. The current stock is:

1 Delhezi
1 Senegal
3 Nicaraguan cichlids
3 Firemouths
1 Blood parrot
5 green barbs (slowly going down)