Sorry for the lack of responses on this lately. My little bichir was dead by the morning after it began showing symptoms that something was wrong. I suppose it could have been the diet I was feeding it (blood worms, and flakes) it never showed any interest in brine or mysis shrimp for some reason. Honestly, not sure if I'm gonna try this one again...I'm just not sure what could have gone wrong. I was easily able to feed it with feeding tongs so it had plenty of chances to eat (as far as I know) and really it's a very quiet tank, before my bechir died, I had even ended up moving my salvini into another tank since my festae and it were beginning to have mutual disputes.. At any rate I really appreciate all of the assistance you offered me, for what it's worth I did end up moving the little bichir to my qt tank and treated with aquarium salt...is that the same as epsom salt? I'd love to be able to grow my own bichir and my 40 gallon tank I think would be a superb grow-out tank for a baby bichir since it is so calm... But again, I am a keeper of cichlids..not bichirs so I could be very wrong.
Currently I also have a 20 gallon long aquarium established with only a couple of loaches in it, I had for a time even considered trying to start a bichir in that tank since it's an even smaller and more controllable environment than my 40 gallon. Not sure it would have made any difference for my bichir though. At any rate, any further thoughts or advice on what could have happened or what I should consider doing before i even consider attempting this again are very much appreciated!
kno4te
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