So, yesterday my 40gallon tank exploded at some point while I was gone for 10 hours. I returned home to unresponsive Senegal bichirs and 2 Raphael catfish and a completely flooded apartment. I quickly moved the 4 into my much smaller breeder tank (5 female guppies 1 male, and 3 cory doras). All four, thankfully, perked up and have been doing alright considering. In the first 5 hours, I noticed that my larger bichirs fins were torn and had deep red lines thru his fins. As of the next morning, today, the red lines disappeared and he was back to his more active self.
I donated the guppys and cory doras to my local fish store, they were very understanding that they all needed to be rehoused. It was way too many fish in a small tank but I just noticed that my larger bichirs fins have taken a serious turn for the worse. The red lines I noticed yesterday are gone, but the fins appear to be rotting away. I'm posting pictures because I've never deal with anything like this before. So whatever is going on, got significantly worse in a matter of 6 hours. Likely more pictures to follow.
My smaller bichir has no tares, and I actually pulled him out of the tank to inspect, cause he seems perfectly fine and I was super suspicious that he just got out of this unscathed.
I donated the guppys and cory doras to my local fish store, they were very understanding that they all needed to be rehoused. It was way too many fish in a small tank but I just noticed that my larger bichirs fins have taken a serious turn for the worse. The red lines I noticed yesterday are gone, but the fins appear to be rotting away. I'm posting pictures because I've never deal with anything like this before. So whatever is going on, got significantly worse in a matter of 6 hours. Likely more pictures to follow.
My smaller bichir has no tares, and I actually pulled him out of the tank to inspect, cause he seems perfectly fine and I was super suspicious that he just got out of this unscathed.
