bichor and oscar

[gwenavir]

hello! it's gwenavir again with questions about my fish and the fish in my future. i have moved out of the small place i was living in and will be moving into my own apartment so i will now have enough space for the tiger oscar's i wanted so badly!!! my question is this: if i put a structure of some sort for my bichor to hide out in, will it be okay to put him in a 45 gallon tank with two oscars? i'm going to buy them small because i want to share their entire life with them, and my bichor is only 3 1/2 inches long or so, so i dont think there will be an issue of him bothering them but i'm not the fish expert, so what do you all think?

 

[rich311k]

A pair of oscars will need 90 gallons. I would think a bichir and the Os will get along ok as long as neither is much larger than each other.

 

[gwenavir]

thank you very much for your reply, so you dont think i coul start them off in a 45 gallon, how about just one of them with the bichor?

 

[rich311k]

You could start them off but remember they grow very quickly. Within 8 months to a year you will need to be ready to upgrade the tank.

 

[gwenavir]

word, i can handle that no problem, i would love to have the biggest tank they sell for a house but i'm just not in a finantial possition to do that

 

[jbarr]

My 6" Oscar and 6" Bichir have grown out of a 30 gal together, into a 90", among a few others. But they've been neck and neck, speaking strictly lengthwise. No problems as the O hangs mid-surface, Bichir strictly bottom, beside his daily tank cruise.

 

[gwenavir]

well that makes me very happy to here!!! or read..whatever. so then i'll just continue to follow everyones advise on this forum and watch my fishies closely