Delhezi Bichir Fin Rot/Biting..

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PaiLum92

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My male Delhezi's fins look torn, and red on the tips, with little white things attatched to them. They do not look like parasites or other animals, just like a white clousy thing attached to the tip.. wasnt like that last night.

There is a female senegal in the tank with him, thats the only fish in there though.

Tank is 72g..

I feed them once a day, and the female eats untill she is huge.. thats why i doubt it is biting, unless shes just a jerk..

(Cannot get any pictures, hes a little skitish right now..)

So, if anyone knows how i can heal fin rot/biting, can you let me know? Will the salt treatment work?
 
If you have a quarantine tank, keep him in there with perfect water conditions and diet till he heals up. You can add something like SeaChem StressGuard or API Stress Coat to help prevent other infections. If this doesn't help, you can then try using an antibiotic.

Fin rot is a bacterial infection and is common secondary to fin nipping, so you need to figure out if that is occurring. Otherwise, fin rot is associated with rough handling, poor water quality, overcrowding, or poor diet.

What are you water parameters? You may want to start feeding them twice a day, whatever they will consume in 3 minutes.
 
Water is fine, i have a spare 10g tank, but i bought some raphaels to clean the left over food in the big tank, they ended up freaking out my bichirs, so i moved them into there untill tomorrow, when it take them back..

They seem really friendly towards each other.. from what i see when watching them, they never bite or attack each other..

The only handlin ive ever done was moving him from the 10g to the 72g..

Wtaer parameteres test nearly perfect, nirites a one above the safe zone, but i have no clue how to controll those, i do water changes, add prime, etc, but they still go into the stress zone.. (Yes, i have the cheap strips, on my next payment ill buy the pro test kits..)

No overcrowding, two 4-6' bichirs in a 72g seems pretty undercrowded to me..

I'll add some stress coat, and see how hes doing tomorrow, if i see its worse ill buy some meds when i return the cats..
 
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