A bit of an update... the universal rocks stuff has held up pretty well so far. it will develop a bit of greenish algae growth on it and I can just pull it out and do a light bleach solution and scrub it off and rinse and its as good as new. Was a bit disappointed in the one tall grass like plant, it has metal wire in it and the one I have had a section where the exterior plastic was worn off so it rusted... but in the end no different than people who make their own plants from the ones at Michaels or the craft store.
While not a bichir update I did do a change to my fishroom... replace the standard 30 gallon with a Fluval Flex 32.5
Original tank was this Shell dweller set up
Found them to be boring so went with this and am moving my puffer into it
The fishroom now