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I have read a lot of threads in this lungfish subforum and i also search online, but i can not find any reference or picture about lungfish lateral line errosion.
So i get my 12" WAL last month, my wife name him louise and we love him very much. The bad news is that he has been in a quarantine 30 gal container for a month. I broke the new custom made 70 gal tank that i prepare as the growout tank for the WAL. That is why he ended up in the container. I use sponge filter from my established tank for the quarantine and i do 50% wc everyday to remove the leftover foods from the messy WAL. He feed on hikari singking carnivore pellets, hikari algae wafer, hikari vibra bites, frozen shrimp and tuna.
So a few days ago, the tank finished and running. So i move Louise to the tank. He lost his coloration due to light colored background of tha container, but only after 2 days in the new tank, he got his dark coloration and black spots back. That is when i notice a lot of holes around his eyes. I try to find out is it LLE but i can not find any picture online. I did not notice if he had the hole when i first got him because he directly wnt into the container and i only can observer him from above.
So is there anyone that could help me to id if it is LLE or not (picture attached), and if it is LLE, what is the best medication and how to prevent it?
I know that lungfish need vegetable matter in their diet and i have reas that providing algae wafer in the diet will help. Louise loves algae wafer and he feed on the wafer every day. Your help and input will be much appreciated. Thank you
NB: sorry for any grammatical or sentence structure mistakes, english is not my first languange. Thank you
I have read a lot of threads in this lungfish subforum and i also search online, but i can not find any reference or picture about lungfish lateral line errosion.
So i get my 12" WAL last month, my wife name him louise and we love him very much. The bad news is that he has been in a quarantine 30 gal container for a month. I broke the new custom made 70 gal tank that i prepare as the growout tank for the WAL. That is why he ended up in the container. I use sponge filter from my established tank for the quarantine and i do 50% wc everyday to remove the leftover foods from the messy WAL. He feed on hikari singking carnivore pellets, hikari algae wafer, hikari vibra bites, frozen shrimp and tuna.
So a few days ago, the tank finished and running. So i move Louise to the tank. He lost his coloration due to light colored background of tha container, but only after 2 days in the new tank, he got his dark coloration and black spots back. That is when i notice a lot of holes around his eyes. I try to find out is it LLE but i can not find any picture online. I did not notice if he had the hole when i first got him because he directly wnt into the container and i only can observer him from above.
So is there anyone that could help me to id if it is LLE or not (picture attached), and if it is LLE, what is the best medication and how to prevent it?
I know that lungfish need vegetable matter in their diet and i have reas that providing algae wafer in the diet will help. Louise loves algae wafer and he feed on the wafer every day. Your help and input will be much appreciated. Thank you
NB: sorry for any grammatical or sentence structure mistakes, english is not my first languange. Thank you
