Jardini and bichir

[Fish Fanatic34]

I'm upgrading my bichir and 5 silver dollars to a 180 gallon could I put a jardini in the tank, or best not?

 

[GaryE]

My view is that you take the total adult length of any fish, and multiply it by 8. Then you compare that to the front glass of the aquarium. If the numbers fit, the fish has room to live.
That's my self serving formula. It really should be 10 times the length of the front glass, but eight gets a few more fish in and is reasonably close.
A jardini can grow to 36 inches in an aquarium, and larger in the wild. The tank is probably a 6 or 8 foot one? That isn't even close to long enough.

I know. Monster fishkeepers don't like this view, and generally just ignore it. But while there are some big fish I would love to keep, I'll only do so with a tank big enough.

 

[Fish Fanatic34]

My view is that you take the total adult length of any fish, and multiply it by 8. Then you compare that to the front glass of the aquarium. If the numbers fit, the fish has room to live.
That's my self serving formula. It really should be 10 times the length of the front glass, but eight gets a few more fish in and is reasonably close.
A jardini can grow to 36 inches in an aquarium, and larger in the wild. The tank is probably a 6 or 8 foot one? That isn't even close to long enough.

I know. Monster fishkeepers don't like this view, and generally just ignore it. But while there are some big fish I would love to keep, I'll only do so with a tank big enough.

Yeah I see that, it's a 6x2x2, I wanted an African cross river biotope-ish tank with Giant kribensis, African butterfly fish but I feel the bichir would eat then