Best place to buy fish online?

[Connershawzz]

@Connershawzz ... well they are a smaller variety getting to 16" ( some get much bigger )

this is a well respected site for information on different fish... I use it all the time...

Polypterus teugelsi

Polypterus teugelsi is a bichir probably endemic to the River Cross drainage in Cameroon, where it lives in shady, slow-moving rainforest streams. Its colour pattern differs from every other member of the genus: a network of black marks over the upper half of the body, an orange belly and jet...

www.seriouslyfish.com

Ya I meant as in like starting with it as a baby I think this one will be the biggest in my tank for sure. I just have a senegul and an albino senegul. Who surprisingly haven’t batted an eye at any of my skirt tetras or sword tails , I know it’s only a matter of time tho

 

[Magnum Man77 191]

you would think they would be chowing all the time, but if I put 10 Rosy Minnows in the tank... when they are not used to get predated on, the Bichir catches 4-5 the 1st day, 2-3 the next day, 1-2 the next day, then it can take a couple weeks, even the minnows learn what the Bichir is, & stay away from it... mine is in fine aquarium gravel, & buries him self in the substrate, with just it's nose sticking out, the minnow must be in just the right position, before the bichir pounces...

 

[I Like Rare Fish]

heres an article I wrote - everything you need to knkw about the bichir. https://www.fishforums.net/threads/an-illustrated-article-to-the-bichir-folio-1.475855/#post-4110965
As for finding them online, depending on where you live I’d look at non-chain LFS’s before considering online. However, a couple online ones are wetspot, petzoneSD,