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mr firemouth;731352; said:
ick/ich is not a bacterial infection but a parasitic infection. it is best cured with increased temperature, salt, and if needed a formalin and/or malachite green treatment.
it will look like small white dots, almost like grains of salt on the fish. lungfish tend to be highly resistant to ich, and i have never actually seen one get ich, even if other fishes in the tank had it. bichirs and gars (also primitive fishes) are also highly resistant to ich (in other words, you generally have a bad case if any of these types of fishes are showing up with ick).--
--solomon
The dolloi I've had the longest, I've had for about 6 months. Just wondering if there was a specific reason you asked - are you finding they are more delicate? If you are implying this, then I would agree with you. They do seem to be a little more prone to skin issues than the others.
santoury;731824; said:
i was curious mainly to get a reference point from both of you on your experiences with the fish, as a fellow lungfish keeper, its always interesting to get an insight from others keeping these animals.
secondarily, however, i was also curious as to your growth assumptions/observations regarding the dolloi...in 6 months of keeping a dolloi it's not necessarily safe to make assumptions about growth patterns...especially in a long-lived fish over a relatively short period of time.
i have noticed that dolloi seems to be much shyer than the other African species, as have many others. i thought the growth noticed by Grif's specimen was definitely interesting, especially since the dolloi i have kept grew rather slowly in spite of eating a decent amount and having a tank all to themselves. either way, different hobbyists will experience different things...still, be careful on making broad generalizations based on such a relatively short period of observation (however, observations are observations...just don't necessarily pass them all off as broadly applicable pattern).
as for sensitivity, other than the species being shy, i noticed no difference in their susceptibility to infections...having kept all the lungfish species, i would say the P. amphibius seems to be more susceptible by far, and this is anecdotally referenced as well in a couple sources. they seem more prone to water quality issues, and as oddball and i can attest to, they don't seem to bounce back as well as their seemingly more robust cousins--
--solomon
E_americanus;731794; said:
I can vagely remember I read somewhere that Lungfish are real sensitive to medication.
I do have some experience with ick/ich but not with my lungfish but in Japanese koi. But I have never treated them myself. Here in the Netherlands we have several vets who are specialiced in treating fish. They come by your house tranquilize and examine the fish. look for paracites under their microscope. Or they check the faeces for bacterial infection.
About the growth of my dolloi, I notised that whenever I would clean out his tank from algae (did this every week) it would eat less the following day. and his skin would turn a bit red. Wich indicates it experienced stress. So I stopped doing this and now I only do a 30% waterchange each week with treated water. And sporadic clean the glass walls.
It's the same with different types of food. I use the collor of his skin as an indicator.
I have definitely noticed a much slower growth in my dollois as opposed to the annectens. The aethiopicus are pretty slow as well. The SA's and the Annectens are my fastest growers. Keep in mind I don't feed them "a lot" by our standards of feeding "a lot" per se. They get fed a couple times a week or so. But the slow growth has been true for each of my dolloi. I am definitely surprised at the other albino's growth. I am wondering, then, if my albino dolloi will grow faster, too, but I have not had him that long yet. The dolloi also are very shy compared to the others, but they are in fact the most aggressive towards nets, tubes, hands...
Interesting stuff!
Interesting stuff!
