-yeah, that's just stress wash-out. make sure to monitor water quality and feeding carefully; small bowfin are extremely delicate until they hit about 8-9". good luck, and nice fish--
--solomon
--solomon
Guess whats in the mail!
- Thread starter Greg31
- Start date
no prob and good luck. i would suggest keeping them alone though...monos are prob ok (unless you have them in brackish), but royal plecos can be aggressive chasers, particularly at night. bowfin are so fragile at that stage that you don't want to leave anything to chance. i had a batch of 10 way back in the day (all a bit smaller than yours), and only 1 made it past the first week (that one persisted for 7-8 years though!) --
--solomon
i have seen one! if i only knew what could have been at the time....damn shame really
low current till they are larger. deworm them it will be for the best. they will take most prep foods after some time. best to feed them what they will eat for now, glass worms, ghost shrimps, blood worms...ect. plant/ wood cover will make them feel safer. though they drift in mass schols at this size.
seeing them makes me think i may have to go do something.....
-agreed with scott/sbuse, however, i would not mess with any de-worming this early...meds can only add risk to the delicate fish. you could feasibly try that later in life, but i never had an issue with worms and these fish (or gars either...bichirs were another story) --
--SRD
--SRD
a lot of the one i shoot bowfishing and see caught have vomited small white worms, so i do it to be safe. later would be better, i dewormed mine with prazi pro at 5".
the parasites load will definitely increase as the fish get older, and this is also based on large wild specimens. smaller captive specimens will either have them and die or they will survive. i highly recommend against de-worming at that small of size and young of age, but that's not to say it can't work...from time to time. as you said, later would generally be better. prazi-pro is what i use on my gars/bowfin if/when they get sick, but i have never used anything as a preventative measure (treating only if there is injury, visible parasites, signs of infection, etc). primitive fishes just don't respond to meds in the same way more derived fishes do, and therefore the risk is usually not worth it unless absolutely necessary IME--
--solomon
