125 Poly House
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Lost my CB delhezi last night. Was fine one day, dead the next. Parameters are well within range, diet hasn't changed, temps are good, no signs of illness. The dead bichir didn't have any visible symptoms or injuries.
My two suspicious are either poor CB genetics, or the weeksii managed to crush him somehow without leaving any external damage. Everyone else appears to be fine - but the delhezi was totally fine, and then belly up 12hrs later.
My two suspicious are either poor CB genetics, or the weeksii managed to crush him somehow without leaving any external damage. Everyone else appears to be fine - but the delhezi was totally fine, and then belly up 12hrs later.
Well that sux. Sorry to hear. Wonder if you have some kind of parasite or bacteria that's 2 in short order. Anything change?
No changes whatsoever. No new additions, no change in diet, no plants. I'm at a loss. Just keeping a close eye now.
Yeah you a probably right. I have a sen pretty sure he's captive bred looks like he may be developing a tumor. I guess stuff like that is common. Hopefully it's just a lypoma and isn't life threatening. Atm he's still acting fine.
My sen has a tumour on the anal fin and has been fine for quite awhile. You should be alright depending on location.
Update!
Ended up losing all my known CB bichirs awhile back now. Both teugelsis and the delhezi sadly passed. No identified reason. None of my fish are showing aggression, everyone eats the same, WCs every 5 days, parameters are good, filter's bacterial colony is strong. I've wracked my head over it all, and can't find a fault in the care that led to them passing - especially since the other seven polypterids in the aquarium at the time are all healthy and growing.
Since my last update, I sourced 2 WC retros from an LFS, and just today picked up a little delhezi and weeksii from a listing on kijiji. They had a retro and palmas as well, but sadly they were already spoken for. Hopefully the deal falls through and I can pick 'em up.
125g stocking is as follows:
1 Paratilapia polleni (presumed male)
Pair of WC retros
Blind female weeksii
female sen
4M/1F ropefish
Then the new del and weeksii, both of which are a liiiitle too young to sex IMO. I know people will say female when they see the weeksii's pic, but I thought I had 2 female retros for awhile and then one week the muscle around the anal fin really beefed up.
Here's some pics!
My old, blind weeksii gal with the new delhezi
A better photo of the new delhezi
A photo of the new weeksii in the old keeper's aquarium. Notice the filth. The water smelled of ammonia as I brought it back, took the toll road to get home ASAP. Thankfully bichirs are hardy. Could've probably kept them on a wet towel with a mist bottle.
Ended up losing all my known CB bichirs awhile back now. Both teugelsis and the delhezi sadly passed. No identified reason. None of my fish are showing aggression, everyone eats the same, WCs every 5 days, parameters are good, filter's bacterial colony is strong. I've wracked my head over it all, and can't find a fault in the care that led to them passing - especially since the other seven polypterids in the aquarium at the time are all healthy and growing.
Since my last update, I sourced 2 WC retros from an LFS, and just today picked up a little delhezi and weeksii from a listing on kijiji. They had a retro and palmas as well, but sadly they were already spoken for. Hopefully the deal falls through and I can pick 'em up.
125g stocking is as follows:
1 Paratilapia polleni (presumed male)
Pair of WC retros
Blind female weeksii
female sen
4M/1F ropefish
Then the new del and weeksii, both of which are a liiiitle too young to sex IMO. I know people will say female when they see the weeksii's pic, but I thought I had 2 female retros for awhile and then one week the muscle around the anal fin really beefed up.
Here's some pics!
My old, blind weeksii gal with the new delhezi
A better photo of the new delhezi
A photo of the new weeksii in the old keeper's aquarium. Notice the filth. The water smelled of ammonia as I brought it back, took the toll road to get home ASAP. Thankfully bichirs are hardy. Could've probably kept them on a wet towel with a mist bottle.
