Dinosaur birchil has bleeding lump
- Thread starter jgbuc78
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I have no idea what that is, all I can suggest is dab the wound with hydrogen peroxide and methylene blue ( also dose water with blue and add any antibiotics/ fungal med to prevent infection)
Is there stuff coming out if it? Is having any buoyancy problems? Not sure from the pics. Doesn’t look infected but eventually it will be. I’d stop feeding for now. Keep your water parameters pristine and add some pure epsom salt 1 tbsp per g for now.
I don't see anything coming from it. I did have a gravel substrate then noticed the lump so I isolated him in a separate tank amd switch over to sand. I put him back in on Sunday and then today he was bleeding so I took him back out to isolate him again. I had it 2 years now and worried it's going to pass
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I gotta say it doesn’t look good, expect the worse, hope for the best, no sand substrate as it may settle inside the Wound, actually bare bottom might be the best optionI don't see anything coming from it. I did have a gravel substrate then noticed the lump so I isolated him in a separate tank amd switch over to sand. I put him back in on Sunday and then today he was bleeding so I took him back out to isolate him again. I had it 2 years now and worried it's going to pass
Ain't gonna lie bro I think it might've swallowed a gravel, bichirs are really clumsy when feeding and I observed they sometimes dont know how to aim. I read a few advice saying you shouldnt put bichirs in gravels because it can cause indigestion. Or this could be something else.
Yes I agree.
Certain substrate such as gravel is unnatural to some species of fish for Polypterus gravel is risky. I had Senegal bichir with gravel before joining MFK but once I read threads changed to sand.