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

An incredibly hardy, nocturnal species with very poor vision, P. teugseli relies on its excellent sense of smell to locate food. This species along with others of its genus are some of the last surviving relatives of very ancient species. Fossils of earlier relatives have been found that date...

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 Man]

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,