Red growth on gills?

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vaine111

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I don't know what forum to put this under but I think this will get me going.

I have an ornate bichir that I have had for almost 3 weeks now. A little after I bought her I noticed a red dot on her gills and now it has gotten enlarged. I was thinking of taking her to my trusted LFS and seeing if they could possibly cut it off or assist me in doing so but wanted to see if someone can identify what it is from these phone pics. I went to the Sticky: Polypterid health issues and answers (reference guide) and in post 4 it says: Macrogyrodactylus simentiensis Polypterus senegalus
may be found in wildcaught P.senegalus from Gambia
These resemble fine hairs or very fine pieces of thread,they are visible to the naked eye as symptons include rubbing and rolling its body and thrashing it can be curedusually by using Jungle labs Parasite guard at 3/4 dose.(this is the most comon parasite i have seen)
The reason I think it is this is cause it resembles red threads. When I first saw it I thought it was some bloodworms lodged in her gills.
Any thoughts to what it is or coments is greatlly appreciated.



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Your ornate is still very young and it's simply regenerating it's external gills. You probably have high oxygen content in your water, thats good!

Be happy that your system is healthy enough to support the growth of delicate external gills.
 
Cohazard;3214070; said:
Your ornate is still very young and it's simply regenerating it's external gills. You probably have high oxygen content in your water, thats good!

Be happy that your system is healthy enough to support the growth of delicate external gills.
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Hmmm, re-generate external gills?

The first I learned about external gills and anything about them was in a thread were someone was talking about their endlicheri's still having them at 7". So I figured they get rid of them, not re-generate them. I will check into this.

I must have a healthy system cause she is growing like a weed(1" in a lil less then 3 weeks:D). I like her better then my big one personality wise, but don't tell him that:D. Expected too seeing she hasn't ate any tankmates and the big guy ate another 3" pbass the other day. My fault though I decided to start skipping days between feedings. Not anymore though.

Thanks for the info Cohazard, you are the King of bichirs here on MFK.
 
Glad I could help brutha Vaine :)

I'm no king lol just a fellow fan :headbang2
 
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