Crap... missing eye... did the bichirs do it?

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dbcb314

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woke up this morning, saw my smaller leopard ctenopoma acting weird... he turned around and he is missing an eye :(

He was fine yesterday at 3AM :(

so... who done it? I got a ABF, african knifefish, bigger leopard ctenopoma, kribensis, and 2 sens.

I can't imagin it being the AKF, or the ABF. if it happened during the day maybe the krib bc she is a bia, but at night she hides under a rock and never comes out.

so... prolly down to one of the sens and the bigger ctenopoma. the bigger leopard does chase the smaller one... but i never witnessed it actually nipping or biting at it.

now I got to put the dude down as soon as I buy a net...
 
Put him in quarantine with a bit of aquarium salt in the water. If you can ward off infection, you should be able to keep it. In a worst case scenario, if you still plan on putting it down instead of trying to heal, maybe you're close to me and we can arrange a pickup? I've got a spare tank to quarantine in and room for him in another tank...
 
i think the AKF are not the one that do this...
in my tank the only one that seem like to eat lobster eye was the oscar
 
hmm...alot of african fish are eyebiters. heh, like the malawi eyebiter!!! nah, i'd say the...cichlid, kribensis
 
you've got an eye ball eater in the house, better smoke the culprit out fast before the other bichirs get sucked too. most prob is those cichlids of yours
 
Nah, not the senegals. They don't see terribly well and they don't go for eyes, they usually go for the body.
 
:)ya bichirs have bad eyesight and grab the biggest thing so they can't miss, well it increases their chances of making the kill. also the lobster would be missing like part of the tail of a leg/ claw for bichirs are ambush predators.:headbang2
 
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