Bleheri/Bichir temp change?

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
-DC- said:
Maduo, just FYI years back I dabbled with slowly lowering tropical fish into the lower temps to try and find that happy medium (including bichirs) . It seems to work well at first but just like keeping channa too warm keeping the bichirs too cold eventually catches up with them. First it slows them down a bit but otherwise they seemed perfectly healthy , unfortunately the real damage is happening internally , mainly because they can't digest food properly and this results in sudden deaths with no symptoms ( other then the lethargic behavior which in hind site was a warning sigh ) small meals might slow/delay the damage but I fear your setting yourself up for the same leson I learned the hard way !

I know in your case your doing what you can with what you have but just wanted to share what I learned when I tried .
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Yeah i agree, as i said "for how long". My poor buddies just have to hang in there for two more months, I really hope they can make it! Plus i really want my 250g xD
 
They'll probably survive it ,they are tough fish! just be sure to keep meals small and infrequent and that way they are less likely to run into digestive problems !
 
-DC- said:
They'll probably survive it ,they are tough fish! just be sure to keep meals small and infrequent and that way they are less likely to run into digestive problems !
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They get the leftover pieces of fish my channas won't eat every 5 days, and when i change that to mealworms, they get none, never seen fishes go nuts over food like channas do over these worms xD
 
Oh yes they love Meal worms ! I may have asked you this before but do you have a breeding colony of meal worms yet?
 
-DC- said:
Oh yes they love Meal worms ! I may have asked you this before but do you have a breeding colony of meal worms yet?
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No, and i honestly can't be bothered with it right now, however easy it seems, i can get them delivered 5 mins walk from my place, and their boxes contain 50ish each for a coupe of bucks. A box remains alive for 2 to 3 weeks with none going into pupae, and they are of very decent size.

Perhaps when i have my 250 will i feel the need to make my own, depends on how the odoes and aro like them ;)
 
No . You cannot mix any snakehead species they will kill each other. It's quite difficult to even keep a mated pair of the sane species from killing each other lol.
 
My favorite fish of all times after arapaima, micropeltes is the true apex predator. He will kill anything and everything. To be fair, given its max size at about 100 cm in a tank, that probably includes your hand and/or arm. :D

Requires a true "monster tank" as well.
 
any advice of solid dividers?. because i would like to put them 2 in my aquarium, because i notice they are starring to each other. Which means they may be become sick? am I right?. right now i have a glass divider but that is the problem they can see each other. any advice? TY.
 
RAI CARL SANTOS said:
any advice of solid dividers?. because i would like to put them 2 in my aquarium, because i notice they are starring to each other. Which means they may be become sick? am I right?. right now i have a glass divider but that is the problem they can see each other. any advice? TY.
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If you're trying to spot what was described earlier as "Being washed out" and hiding at the bottom of the tank, I am afraid you're not looking for the right thing to fix what your fishes may be experiencing. From what I've seen before, through having to move channas from a tank to another temporarily (one can only have so many tank until the next eh?), only one of them should behave like that. One of them is bound to feel secure at least, unless you've JUST put them in, in which case well, wait a few days.

If it's aggression even through a divider that you're describing, **** happens, they'll learn to live with it. But I doubt it, or you wouldn't think they are sick.

Would you be so kind as to post pictures so we can see exactly what you describe? :)
 
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