Picked up a baby Senegal Bichir, first one for me.
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.Belive me, ones you try bichirs you need them in your tanks 4 ever 
when my polys die after 10 years (the big girl jumped out of the tank and the other one i don't have any idea, may be he was sad or that f.... pleco
) i decide to try other kinds of fish, but no one gets close to polys, so now im back and just got a baby senegal 2" (its the only one i can find over here 
) and im enjoing it 100% he is a little pig, just put him in the tank and 5 minutes later he was hunting the brine shrimp that i put in the tank 
when my polys die after 10 years (the big girl jumped out of the tank and the other one i don't have any idea, may be he was sad or that f.... pleco
) i decide to try other kinds of fish, but no one gets close to polys, so now im back and just got a baby senegal 2" (its the only one i can find over here ) and im enjoing it 100% he is a little pig, just put him in the tank and 5 minutes later he was hunting the brine shrimp that i put in the tank Yes, they are quickly climbing up my favorite fish list. I sit and watch them scoot around the tank, they are quite amusing.
Well sad news, I lost my little Poly today. He was just cruising last night but when I went home for lunch today I noticed my BioWheel Mini was just flowing really slow so I pulled the inlet tube to look inside, and what do I see. But my little poly all smashed inside and obviously not alive. I feel bad because it's my fault but I would have never thought he would try to swim into the dang inlet. The filter is rather old and the pickup strainer has been smashed a few times moving it. So it's got some gaps but I never would have though in a million years the fish would squeeze his way in only to get sucked into a plastic impeller death trap. I will be covering the strainer in foam tonight to prevent this from happening again but the other Poly I got this weekend is bigger so I doubt he'd fit but I'm still covering it, lesson learned I guess.
Poor guy.
Filter inlet of death, take note if you have something like this. You'll want it covered.
The bigger Poly is doing fine, but less a freind.
He was just cruising last night but when I went home for lunch today I noticed my BioWheel Mini was just flowing really slow so I pulled the inlet tube to look inside, and what do I see. But my little poly all smashed inside and obviously not alive. I feel bad because it's my fault but I would have never thought he would try to swim into the dang inlet. The filter is rather old and the pickup strainer has been smashed a few times moving it. So it's got some gaps but I never would have though in a million years the fish would squeeze his way in only to get sucked into a plastic impeller death trap. I will be covering the strainer in foam tonight to prevent this from happening again but the other Poly I got this weekend is bigger so I doubt he'd fit but I'm still covering it, lesson learned I guess.
Poor guy.
Filter inlet of death, take note if you have something like this. You'll want it covered.
The bigger Poly is doing fine, but less a freind.
