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Polyaddict86 said:
Can you take apicture of the whitespots, might be something else.
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The bichir doesn't have them anymore, but Ill keep an eye out. Is there anything that looks like ick that I should watch out for?

EDIT: Actually, if you Zoom in on the first picture, you can see a few white spots on its head.
 
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So its been a week and this guy hasn't eaten anything. According to the sticky, I shouldn't be worried too much, but I am a little worried. I haven't tried feeding anything other than pellets, however. I don't want to put tilapia / shrimp in this tank, it took me 2 months to get my goliath on pellets, don't want to risk it reverting....
 
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sunnysjourney said:
So its been a week and this guy hasn't eaten anything. According to the sticky, I shouldn't be worried too much, but I am a little worried. I haven't tried feeding anything other than pellets, however. I don't want to put tilapia / shrimp in this tank, it took me 2 months to get my goliath on pellets, don't want to risk it reverting....
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Complicated if your tigerfish already pellet trained. No introduction to market shrimp anyways. Takes longer to digest. It may be taking a while to settle in.

Wouldn't worry too much about the lap not eating part in the beginning. It happens. My 17/18" weeksii didn't eat fo the frst 3 weeks. Now it just nibbles on a few pellets and tilapia, but haven't noticed any weight loss.

Possible solution: maybe sinking pellets or massivore soaked in bloodworm juice. Most of us polykeepers would try wiggly worms, but feel your predators may go after.
 
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Vancouver_98683 said:
Complicated if your tigerfish already pellet trained. No introduction to market shrimp anyways. Takes longer to digest. It may be taking a while to settle in.

Wouldn't worry too much about the lap not eating part in the beginning. It happens. My 17/18" weeksii didn't eat fo the frst 3 weeks. Now it just nibbles on a few pellets and tilapia, but haven't noticed any weight loss.

Possible solution: maybe sinking pellets or massivore soaked in bloodworm juice. Most of us polykeepers would try wiggly worms, but feel your predators may go after.
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Yeah, I use hikari massivore sinking pellets for all my fish. I guess this guy is just taking time to settle in. I mean there have been instances where in the pellet is right in front of its damn face, it doesn't even acknowledge it. Its stomach was pretty fat when I got it, and the LFS owner told me that it eats everything, so thats good I guess. And if try putting in some nightcrawlers, the wolf will get them even before the bichir smells it I'm sure lol.
 
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sunnysjourney said:
Yeah, I use hikari massivore sinking pellets for all my fish. I guess this guy is just taking time to settle in. I mean there have been instances where in the pellet is right in front of its damn face, it doesn't even acknowledge it. Its stomach was pretty fat when I got it, and the LFS owner told me that it eats everything, so thats good I guess. And if try putting in some nightcrawlers, the wolf will get them even before the bichir smells it I'm sure lol.
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Others here may say get more bichirs cuz it may be lonely :) That's how this addiction begins. Lol
 
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