Update on ornate bichir weird behavior

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Should I put it down? It hasn't ate in almost 3 weeks. There was a few times where (I think) it couldn't even swim properly to get air. It was twitching a lot unlike the videos I shown so I took it out, let it breathe for like 3 seconds and put it back then it finally stopped twitching.
 
Seems to have gotten a bit worse from what I recall. If it keeps doing this and not able to eat then I’d suggest euthanize the fish with clove oil.
 

Should I put it down? It hasn't ate in almost 3 weeks. There was a few times where (I think) it couldn't even swim properly to get air. It was twitching a lot unlike the videos I shown so I took it out, let it breathe for like 3 seconds and put it back then it finally stopped twitching.
What happened actually?
 

Should I put it down? It hasn't ate in almost 3 weeks. There was a few times where (I think) it couldn't even swim properly to get air. It was twitching a lot unlike the videos I shown so I took it out, let it breathe for like 3 seconds and put it back then it finally stopped twitching.
I had two albino sens that I bought together at 2”, when they got to be about 7-8”, one started doing this and died a couple weeks later, then the other did the same thing, so I put it down by freezing it. I started a thread about it and if I remember correctly, it came down to bad genetics due to inbreeding
 

Should I put it down? It hasn't ate in almost 3 weeks. There was a few times where (I think) it couldn't even swim properly to get air. It was twitching a lot unlike the videos I shown so I took it out, let it breathe for like 3 seconds and put it back then it finally stopped twitching.
It's probably the right thing to do
 
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