Rainbow cichlid - pretty bad injury
- Thread starter biguebs
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I was just looking over the stocking, it could have been the silver dollars. I’ve never seen and rarely heard of them being aggressive, but they may attack when scared, and they’ve got teeth. They certainly have the capability to take the face off of a fish.
- Dec 2, 2018
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I was going to say that as well. The bite marks would seem to match up as well, especially compared to an oscar bite.
Possible - two of them are larger than the rainbow
Thank you- i will continue updating for sure
?? Yeah I just can’t match that up to the Oscar but who knows
Well I was able to witness the rainbow eating on 3 consecutive attempts going back to the video I posted from last night.
I keep forgetting to mention that I did add salt to this tank the day after I saw the damage to this fish. I went with 2 pounds of the API salt I had around from a bout with ich last year. I haven’t added more and have been doing a gravel vac every other day for a total of about 10-15% change. Did a 50% change before adding the salt. Water temp has remained unchanged at 78 degrees.
I thought it’s worth mentioning if someone comes upon this thread down the road and was weighing options and especially on the off shot that this fish pulls through. Appreciate all the input from everyone, I will continue to update.
I keep forgetting to mention that I did add salt to this tank the day after I saw the damage to this fish. I went with 2 pounds of the API salt I had around from a bout with ich last year. I haven’t added more and have been doing a gravel vac every other day for a total of about 10-15% change. Did a 50% change before adding the salt. Water temp has remained unchanged at 78 degrees.
I thought it’s worth mentioning if someone comes upon this thread down the road and was weighing options and especially on the off shot that this fish pulls through. Appreciate all the input from everyone, I will continue to update.
