My little brother's bichir, a 10" senegal that's 5 years old, isn't eating anymore, he hasn't eaten any of his food for over 2 weeks now. I've tried pellets, worms, shrimp, etc and he still hasn't eaten anything. He swims around fine and acts healthy otherwise, what could be the problem? Internal parasites?
Senegal Bichir not eating
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Any other changes to his tank or anything? Mine used to go on short term hunger strikes, but I would throw in a couple rosy red minnows and his appetite would return. I know live isn't the best option, but it could be worth a shot.
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Nope, no changes to his tank that would explain it. He stopped eating over a week before I took out most of the substrate from his tank due to it messing up the propellers in the filter.
Nope, no abnormalties beyond old injuries from more aggressive fish that he used to be housed with. He's not particularly fat nor skinny. I threw in sme feeders for the little grammode that he's in with and he ate the ones that the Grammode just ripped in half. He completely ignores anything that's not alive which is weird because I raised it on a pellet only diet, he even ignores sinking carnivore pellets while a much smaller bichir that I have relishes them.
I have bichirs like that. They don't eat when i'm around. They only eat after I leave the lights out and when I leave the room.
Update: I put the tank through a Prazipro treatment where I continued to put a bit of food in each day which the fish continued to ignore. After the 7th day I performed a 50% water change as directed. I decided to do something different with the food this time and smashed a clove of garlic and rubbed the Sinking Carnivore pellets in the smashed garlic before putting it in the tank; the fish immediately went after the pellets and ate them. After that feeding I just put in the pellets without the garlic and the bichir's appetite has remained the same, it's eating every time I feed it now so I guess it had some internal parasites that the Prazipro got rid of.