Channa Gachua

[§tudz]

90gal will be fine for a gachua, you can keep a breeding pair in a 15gallon with no probs.

I'd suggest maybe some polypterus such as:

- P. senegalus
- P. delhezi

as an intro to oddballs, thats the way I came in, and they are easy to care for and feed. And they are good tank mates with the C. gachua too, well mine is

Dont go with the P. ornatapinnis as these can be very agressive and I know a few people who's orantes have eaten their tankmates.

Frozen meaty foods are great for both bichirs and SHs, I feed mine, frozen prawns and bloodworm, earthworms, catfish pellets, and frozen lance fish.

 

[Miss Wiggle]

birchirs.... i just don't get it?! lol

sorry but quite simply i don't like them so birchirs are out as tankmates

 

[Miss Wiggle]

what about purple spotted gudgeon as tankmates?

 

[§tudz]

how can you like SHs and not Bichirs? they are very much alilke... lol

As for the gudgeon, not my thing I dont know much about them, with snakeheads the bigger the tank mate the better I wouldnt risk putting in a fish that only grows to say 4" or so

 

[Miss Wiggle]

how can you like SHs and not Bichirs? they are very much alilke... lol

As for the gudgeon, not my thing I dont know much about them, with snakeheads the bigger the tank mate the better I wouldnt risk putting in a fish that only grows to say 4" or so

ha ha i find birchirs a bit plain, i really love the colours on the SH's

say's on the fish species profile they get to 6"

oh and i think i know the answer to this one, but just for the sake of asking really. any puffers that could go in with this sort of set up?

 

[§tudz]

drum role please!......


no, basically the one big enough to not get eaten will eat the SH, and the ones smaller will be eaten by the SH

 

[Miss Wiggle]

as i suspected

 

[§tudz]

in a big enough tank you could keep them together, with plenty of hiding places, but your prob talking 600gall lol

 

[Miss Wiggle]

that's bigger than my house

maybe we could just live in wetsuits......

 

[§tudz]

that's bigger than my house

maybe we could just live in wetsuits......

I could deal with that wet suits would be fine by me, lets buy a pond/house

 

[Miss Wiggle]

ha ha you tell Ian after all the hard work he's put into renovating our house we're just gonna flood it!!

bear in mind he's 6'4 and used to be a bouncer

 

[§tudz]

ha ha you tell Ian after all the hard work he's put into renovating our house we're just gonna flood it!!

bear in mind he's 6'4 and used to be a bouncer

lol I used to do martail arts! rawr!! but I was only like 13 then

I'm a black belt in typhoo, karaoke, Aragami and a yellow belt in judo... the bigger they are the harder they fall...

/me runs away and hides

 

[Miss Wiggle]

pmsl

he's a big softy really although he won't thank me for saying that

but moving swiftly on before i get told off for general chat

the current decor of the tank is sandy substrate, loads of stones around the front, few really big amazon swords, loads of java fern and moss on the rocks then a really big bit of wood leant up against the back wall which oscar likes to hide behind.

if i do decide to re-home oscar i'd take out the big bit of wood as it's very hard to get around it to clean, oscar kindly keeps that part of the tank bare bottomed and nice and clean for me by digging around but without him in it'd become a pain so I'd take it out.

aside from that is there anything else I'd need to do/rearrange decor wise for these fish to be happy?

 

[§tudz]

nope that sounds good to me

 

[Miss Wiggle]

hmmmm it all sounds rather possible

need to decide if i want to re-home oscar first, the other option if he goes is to close down Ian's planted tank which he hasn't the time to maintain properly at the moment and put his community fish into the 92 gal and add a few more.

thanks for all your help

any more suggestions for tankmates appreciated