senegal bichir has red fins?

[kno4te]

Yah so, I changed the water for my bichir and now it looks like it dying, not eating, floating at the surface then after while winking right to the bottom, the water I kinda dirty today because of yesterday’s uneaten brine shrimp, I really need some help, it’s tank use to have rocks and

I set up the tank yesterday morning and added the fish in the afternoon, and yes I did use a water conditioner that said to remove the chlorine in the water, will putting a pellet help increase it appetite?

The pellet is better nutritionally for the poly than bloodworms and brine shrimp.

 

[twentyleagues]

Yah so, I changed the water for my bichir and now it looks like it dying, not eating, floating at the surface then after while winking right to the bottom, the water I kinda dirty today because of yesterday’s uneaten brine shrimp, I really need some help, it’s tank use to have rocks and

I set up the tank yesterday morning and added the fish in the afternoon, and yes I did use a water conditioner that said to remove the chlorine in the water, will putting a pellet help increase it appetite?

So no test kits and possibly no biological filtration at all? Probably ammonia burn/ poisoning. I'd get some bottled bacteria asap to take care of the ammonia. Until then do water changes.

 

[kno4te]

So no test kits and possibly no biological filtration at all? Probably ammonia burn/ poisoning. I'd get some bottled bacteria asap to take care of the ammonia. Until then do water changes.

Yes.

 

[jjohnwm]

When you offer food, it's important to actually make sure that it is eaten. If it isn't, you can't just leave it on the bottom to rot. An earlier picture shows the bichir in a tank littered with a large amount of uneaten brine shrimp, and then in a later post you apologize for the dirty water caused by the previous day's uneaten food. That is a recipe for disaster, made even worse by the lack of biological filtration the current tank has.

Offer food...make certain that it is eaten...and then remove anything left over within 10 or 15 minutes, tops. The fish appears in all these pics to be extremely thin and malnourished. Have you actually seen it eating anything?

Keep doing water changes religiously. Make certain that the new water is temperature matched to the old. Good luck.

 

[Chicxulub]

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