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I’ve had a 12” mokelembembe for about a year and it’s been doing pretty well. This morning (around 9am) it was hanging out with my weeksii bichir and everything seemed normal, though it didn’t eat right away. I just passed by the aquarium (12pm) and he started spiraling rapidly and swimming all over the place rapidly. I caught it in a net and and checked it out. The only things I could find is some red on a couple of the fins and 2 diagonal scratches near those injured fins. My guess is either the green sunfish (I’m planning to move it out since he built a nest and started being aggressive when others get close to his nest) possibly attacked it or it got scratched on one of the rougher rocks in the tank. I pit the bichir in a 5 gallon black bucket for now with a low water (for easy access to air) and put some aquarium salt in for now. Any tips for how to treat what is happening? I will say the water quality is probably not 100% since I had to replace my fx6 with a new one recently and could only transfer so much media over, plus been busy this week and haven’t been able to do a water change this week until today (it’s a little overdue, though not by much)
I’ve had a 12” mokelembembe for about a year and it’s been doing pretty well. This morning (around 9am) it was hanging out with my weeksii bichir and everything seemed normal, though it didn’t eat right away. I just passed by the aquarium (12pm) and he started spiraling rapidly and swimming all over the place rapidly. I caught it in a net and and checked it out. The only things I could find is some red on a couple of the fins and 2 diagonal scratches near those injured fins. My guess is either the green sunfish (I’m planning to move it out since he built a nest and started being aggressive when others get close to his nest) possibly attacked it or it got scratched on one of the rougher rocks in the tank. I pit the bichir in a 5 gallon black bucket for now with a low water (for easy access to air) and put some aquarium salt in for now. Any tips for how to treat what is happening? I will say the water quality is probably not 100% since I had to replace my fx6 with a new one recently and could only transfer so much media over, plus been busy this week and haven’t been able to do a water change this week until today (it’s a little overdue, though not by much)
I’ve had a 12” mokelembembe for about a year and it’s been doing pretty well. This morning (around 9am) it was hanging out with my weeksii bichir and everything seemed normal, though it didn’t eat right away. I just passed by the aquarium (12pm) and he started spiraling rapidly and swimming all over the place rapidly. I caught it in a net and and checked it out. The only things I could find is some red on a couple of the fins and 2 diagonal scratches near those injured fins. My guess is either the green sunfish (I’m planning to move it out since he built a nest and started being aggressive when others get close to his nest) possibly attacked it or it got scratched on one of the rougher rocks in the tank. I pit the bichir in a 5 gallon black bucket for now with a low water (for easy access to air) and put some aquarium salt in for now. Any tips for how to treat what is happening? I will say the water quality is probably not 100% since I had to replace my fx6 with a new one recently and could only transfer so much media over, plus been busy this week and haven’t been able to do a water change this week until today (it’s a little overdue, though not by much)
I’ve had a 12” mokelembembe for about a year and it’s been doing pretty well. This morning (around 9am) it was hanging out with my weeksii bichir and everything seemed normal, though it didn’t eat right away. I just passed by the aquarium (12pm) and he started spiraling rapidly and swimming all over the place rapidly. I caught it in a net and and checked it out. The only things I could find is some red on a couple of the fins and 2 diagonal scratches near those injured fins. My guess is either the green sunfish (I’m planning to move it out since he built a nest and started being aggressive when others get close to his nest) possibly attacked it or it got scratched on one of the rougher rocks in the tank. I pit the bichir in a 5 gallon black bucket for now with a low water (for easy access to air) and put some aquarium salt in for now. Any tips for how to treat what is happening? I will say the water quality is probably not 100% since I had to replace my fx6 with a new one recently and could only transfer so much media over, plus been busy this week and haven’t been able to do a water change this week until today (it’s a little overdue, though not by much)
