Senegalus Bichir don't keep external gills as long as others that size, so he/she may have lost them already.
1 External gill?
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Senegalus Bichir don't keep external gills as long as others that size, so he/she may have lost them already.
i see. i thought they lose their external gills when they're 10cm or more. mine are 6cm
In less oxygenated water, they are forced to breathe at the surface with their lungs(possibly the reason to losing the external gills). My friend's tank was highly oxygenated, and all of his endlis at 6"-8" had crazy long external gills.
I had a ornate and a endli that kept there's at 8", I ended up selling them before they fell off.
maybe 4 inches
Do you think a bubbler is necessary?
the gills bother me so much...it's like so...inside out and vulnerable...
IMO no, they'll adapt and use their lungs anyway.
