Are fish flakes a good stable diet for a baby Bichir?
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Perhaps..the teug is growing slightly faster than the delhezi and was larger in general when I got em, but they are so peaceful with each other it's kind of comical. Maybe they're besties? I hope they remain this way as they grow...
yay! I love them. Like the title too. That del was quite ready for dinner haha,
Hello again all you poly people! Finally got back around to giving this thing an update and thought maybe it'd be better to update this existing thread rather than start a new one! So it's been a while....
A few months back our Delhezi passed away suddenly. It stopped eating for about a week or so, then started eating, and was upside down dead on the bottom of the tank the next day. I couldn't find a single thing wrong with our water and I hadn't done a cleaning that day or anything of the like. Very sad and frustrating for us... Rather than complicate things we just decided to stick with our Teug (her name is Stig) and see how things went.
Fortunately Stig is becoming quiet a beast....She's probably right around the 8-9 inch mark and is a total goof. Eats like crazy and loves hiding in her pipes... I attached a few pics from the recent weeks!
A few months back our Delhezi passed away suddenly. It stopped eating for about a week or so, then started eating, and was upside down dead on the bottom of the tank the next day. I couldn't find a single thing wrong with our water and I hadn't done a cleaning that day or anything of the like. Very sad and frustrating for us... Rather than complicate things we just decided to stick with our Teug (her name is Stig) and see how things went.
Fortunately Stig is becoming quiet a beast....She's probably right around the 8-9 inch mark and is a total goof. Eats like crazy and loves hiding in her pipes... I attached a few pics from the recent weeks!
nice it's interesting to see how they lighten up on light colored substrate my tank is a mix of black diamond sandblasting abrasive and pool filter sand so mine is a much darker color
Yeah, my wife wants black or red sand in the next tank when she out grows the one she's in now...hopefully that won't be for at least a year though.
Thanks much, yea upon further research I am really beginning to think that with polys, over breeding is something you've really got to watch for, if you buy them small especially.. both my ornate and del which have died had characteristic signs in their head shape and banding (in the Del's case) that seemed to point to over breeding and both of them died suddenly :/ with digestive issues it seems. Teug's are newer to aquarium keeping (generally) so perhaps less over breeding is why ours is still going strong? Dunno really...but honestly I think 1 is a good number for me, I'm hoping this one keeps growing and growing until I can keep it in a huge tank with some of my bigger south American cichlids, that's a long ways off from now though, we'll have to wait and see how she doesSorry to hear about your del
I think mystery death is common to alot of poly, not only CB but sometimes we see it with WC specimen too.Thanks much, yea upon further research I am really beginning to think that with polys, over breeding is something you've really got to watch for, if you buy them small especially.. both my ornate and del which have died had characteristic signs in their head shape and banding (in the Del's case) that seemed to point to over breeding and both of them died suddenly :/ with digestive issues it seems. Teug's are newer to aquarium keeping (generally) so perhaps less over breeding is why ours is still going strong? Dunno really...but honestly I think 1 is a good number for me, I'm hoping this one keeps growing and growing until I can keep it in a huge tank with some of my bigger south American cichlids, that's a long ways off from now though, we'll have to wait and see how she does
I had a WC congicus that ate and swimming fine one night then saw in the morning it was dead,
Idk the cause of its death.
She's precious! Glad to hear she and you are doing well! Stig looks like a total goof and beast. Love it!
It is pretty unsettling to hear this happens with some regularity to folks :/ it has toughened my skin a little.. and made me very particular with how I keep my poly (diet, habitat, cleaning & feeding rituals, etc) I guess I always took for granted the relative hardiness of cichlids!
