Recently got a 3½in Lapradei and the day after bringing him home a thin red vein like line appeared on his front left fin and then another on his right. I did a water change and added salt but they are still present, is this a bacterial infection of some sort like septicemia or am I just being paranoid?
Lapradei has red lines in its fins?
- Thread starter MGOUZ
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Yes the tank is cycled and been running 3 months now, I've had a senegal, delhezi, and 2 ornates and recently got an endlicheri and the lapradei who is the only one with the red lines through his fins. I'm not using a liquid test kit I only have API test strips right now but I can get one today. The strips are reading that nitrate and nitrite are 0, and ammonia in between 0 and 0.5. I'll do another 30% water change and hopefully that helps. What medication should I be getting incase it doesn't?
I've been feeding them Hikari sinking carnivore pellets. The red lines are really skinny and after doing some more research I'm not sure if it fits the description of septicemia but I wasn't able to find anything specific to bichirs so I could be wrong. Maybe old fin slits healing up? I'm not sure
