My collection of dead bichirs

[Keeper of the Ropes]

dude..... im hungry now.


if only i can have a LIVE collection that matched your dead ones.

Dude, that's so f**ked up!

Sorry bout your losses - a lot of them look to be bloat, but I could be wrong. That was a great lookin albino LF sen too Ah well - now they're in a huge tank in the sky.

Keeper*

 

[Dovii dude]

How did they all die???

 

[uwe]

Hello B.K.

the most interesting question is: Why they are all dead?

Did they die all at the same time due to a technical accident or are these pictures made over a long period?

Greetings

Uwe

 

[B.K.]

fatty delhezi - died of suffocation between pipes

sailfin senegal - died of internal infection/bloatedness

1yr old endlicheri since 3" - died of internal infection

tiger delhezi -died of internal infection

pineapple short body senegal - died of internal infection

albino sailfin senegal - died of internal infection

short bodied endlicheri - died of internal infection

6/7 of them died of internal complications through out a period of 2yrs, and 5 of them were sudden deaths with no symptoms.

is this one of the most common sickness / cause of death for bichirs?

 

[bettapits]

I keep senegal for 2 years I did not experience internal complications. maybe the feeder you feed them did that... I love that tiger delhezi you have. hope I could have that one someday...

 

[uwe]

Hello B.K.

i can only talk about the experiences made by keepers in Germany ...

Bichir's lethality is caused in the most cases by
- Macrogyrodactylus polypteri (a parasite)
- secundar exterior bacteriosis (mostly after affection with M. polypteri)
- after break-out of the tank

I've seldom heard about interior infections. Bichirs are remarkably resistent against affections - is there any possibility of ...
- injuries due to a sharp substrate (like lavatite or other vulcanic substrates). This substrate could feed accidentally with pellets etc.)
- feeders with a bad quality (feeders are often unfreezed/freezed/unfreezed/freezed and so the feeder gets some bad state - especially inside ... lever etc. You may not see it or smell it ...)
- are there any opportunity for the lost bichirs that they got a synodontis, ancistrus or another fish with "armored" fins?
- what's about your water - especially the fresh water you are using to make some partial water-change?

It could be bad luck to loose one bichir - but you have lost some more. It is important to find the reason.
Sometimes the reason is anything no-one thinks about ... so i've listed some reasons that sounds a bit crazy ... but it's a attempt to help!

Greetings

Uwe

 

[Weylin]

Dude... That was an awsome collection... Its sucks that soo many of them died...

 

[Kohaku]

Nice SB endy and tiger del, too bad they are dead. They would be nice to watch in the tank if they are very much alive.

Is there any prevention/cure for internal bacteria infection? I have 2 endies dies of unknown reasons for the pass 2 weeks and I may have a few bichirs showing signs of sluggishness, irregular swimming and has not eaten for some time.

 

[chicken_boy_Kurt]

Sorry about your loss man. I like the pineapple short body senagal. Thats horrible.

 

[tezr]

Did you have any fish that might have developed a taste for slime coat with them? Were any of them ashy before death? After talking with a friend at the LFS it seems that the main reason I lost my Bichirs was the DAMN Verigated shark I put in the tank to control the algae.... He has developed a taste for slime coat and now that I think back on it every fish I lost was in the tank with him even the 2 black Moors. they all turned ashy and then got infected......
Trying to keep myself from making a wall hanging from the Shark but it is not his fault he was just doing what fish do......

Edit:
Umm were you going to make some Pho out of the endli? (asked because of the spoon in the pic)