Hi bros,

I'm Alvin from PJ. I just recently got back into keeping bichirs, since many years back when I used to have only 1 ornate and 1 senegal. Didn't realise now got many other species being kept in Malaysia....currently I only can get 1 delhezi, 1 endlicheri endlicheri, and senegalus, only got them a few months back. Hope to learn more from all bichir kakis here!

kasturipurba, just a rough guess, not able to measure them correctly as they are usually hidden among the driftwood

endlicheri - 12 inch
delhezi - 5 inch
senegalus - got 3 of them, 9 inch, 6 inch and 4 inch

They are all living in a 2.5 ft tank with Shirui sand as substrate. I hope is ok if they swallow it as the particles get kicked up easily when the endli moves around.


Your collection is superb, bro!! I want to keep my bichirs in empty tank like yours, but they keep dashing around nervously whenever I go near the tank. How to make them lose their nervousness?

Also, my endli refuses to eat anything other than market prawns. It won't take any pellets. Even then, only recently it has started to eat since I got it about a month ago. Does your endli behave like this when you first got it?

LOL! Keep bichirs bro!! They're skinks with fins!!

Thanks tommy, btw, how big should the pellet be for a 12 inch endli? All my other polys eat hikari crab pellets, I think will be definitely too small for it to find the pellet. May I know what pellets do you feed urs endli?

I think it eats daphnia or other verry small insects rite? Wonder how long they survive in the aquarium....

That one is tiger salamander bro...I kept two before, but still got gills one, like axolotl. If you reduce the water level week by week eventually it will lose the gills and become adult stage...

Anyone who interest in tiger salamanders, I don't know how long this has been but the last time I saw one tiger salamander for sale at 88 Pets Sunwaymas. Quite expensive, rm3++ I think.

Btw just wanna share this blurry pic I took when I drop by Xian Leng just now...they were sitting there looking at something...



This post has been edited by funkychips: May 18 2011, 09:55 PM

I saw one LFS got a short body albino senegalus, almost more than half of the normal length, wonder if it can swallow as much food as a normal one coz it's so short




I wouldn't think they will, but if it cannot digest the food then it will be deep trouble. Used to have a small senegal last time due to keeping with Otocinclus (algae eater) it swallowed the fish but then it died one week later coz of the spines and head bone which stuck in the stomach...


This post has been edited by funkychips: Jun 4 2011, 09:15 PM

How big is your endli? As long as the algae eater not more than half the size of him then should be ok, and small enough to digest slowly without harming the internal organs....coz my senegal end up got ruptured stomach. Did open up the fish and found bone lumps with spiky bits of fin stuck together....so scary....