My endilcheri won't eat! Help!

[Cohazard]

breathing heavy is a sign of illness or stress.

what is your setup like?

Is the tank cycled?

Make sure to add floating plants, and caves of driftwood.

 

[Egon]

breathing heavy is a sign of illness or stress.

what is your setup like?

Is the tank cycled?

Make sure to add floating plants, and caves of driftwood.

I agree. I would do a water change just incase and try to suck up all the old food. Don't feed for 3 days or so and then try again. Not having the smell of food in the water will help trigger a feeding response when you finally do put some food in. Try feeding at night after the 3 days with out offering food. It should kill blood worms after the three days for sure.

 

[MFK Ivan]

Here are the photos
Fed it with some frozen bloodworms but not sure whether it takes it or not.
Should I feed it with other types of food or just stick with bloodworms?

 

[Yeobster]

feed them on a right time.most bichirs active in middle of the night..on a daytime even your feed in front of his mouth sometime he just dont care. so try feed him at night.bloodworm,sliced market shrimp,small feeder fish,sinking pallet will do..let it be if he dont wanna eat..later he will eat when hungry..hahaha

 

[MFK Ivan]

breathing heavy is a sign of illness or stress.

what is your setup like?

Is the tank cycled?

Make sure to add floating plants, and caves of driftwood.

I'm not quite sure but it breathes once a sec.
I did add some plants but it's not exactly a floating type.It's roots are planted to the ground and the leaves are floating.Does that count?
I didn't put any except bogwoods.

Here is a full scape of my tank

Front view


Side views

 

[MFK Ivan]

feed them on a right time.most bichirs active in middle of the night..on a daytime even your feed in front of his mouth sometime he just dont care. so try feed him at night.bloodworm,sliced market shrimp,small feeder fish,sinking pallet will do..let it be if he dont wanna eat..later he will eat when hungry..hahaha

Lol.Starve it?
But here doesn't even sells market shrimps and those live shrimps they're selling are carrying diseases!Yuck!
Once I bought some for my aro but it gets restless and didn't swim much but luckily he recovered!
Thought of buying one of hikari's but not sold here.
Is there any chance it's selling at KL?

 

[MFK Ivan]

I agree. I would do a water change just incase and try to suck up all the old food. Don't feed for 3 days or so and then try again. Not having the smell of food in the water will help trigger a feeding response when you finally do put some food in. Try feeding at night after the 3 days with out offering food. It should kill blood worms after the three days for sure.

Okay,never did realised that.Thanks btw!

 

[Yeobster]

Lol.Starve it?
But here doesn't even sells market shrimps and those live shrimps they're selling are carrying diseases!Yuck!
Once I bought some for my aro but it gets restless and didn't swim much but luckily he recovered!
Thought of buying one of hikari's but not sold here.
Is there any chance it's selling at KL?

lol..then put aside market shrimp. in my case, i get'em fresh and alive(from my fishing bait stock!)quarantine first then only feed to your monster. yup agreed very hard to get hikari's in KL. most LFs just dont have it.

 

[thesixthbrand]

Now worries, it will eat when it's hungry

 

[MFK Ivan]

lol..then put aside market shrimp. in my case, i get'em fresh and alive(from my fishing bait stock!)quarantine first then only feed to your monster. yup agreed very hard to get hikari's in KL. most LFs just dont have it.

Oh,guess I'll just have to stick with frozen bloodworms and pellets!