Sick bichir?

[bichirmuncher]

Hey guys.

about a week ago, i added a baby senegal bichir to my 40g breeder, and this morning i woke up to him having some white spots on the top of his head. is this ick? I don’t know what caused this, but yesterday i did add some more buenos Aires tetras and a red tailed shark to my aquarium. could this be the problem? i inspected them all and they showed no signs of what my bichir has. i tested the water quality and everything is good. (nitrite 0 nitrate 20 ammonia 0 ph 7.2). can someone please help me with this?

(P.S, my water temp is at 80 F)

 

[kno4te]

Hard to tell but doesn’t look like ich. Think it’s a scrape. Would make sure it eating and keep you water pristine.

 

[bichirmuncher]

ok, i don’t know if it’s ich, it keeps on coming off of it and coming back on but i checked this morning and there are no white spots anymore. I did a water change and now everything seems to be back to normal, but now one of my buenos aires tetra has a big red spot right under its eye. is this from bad water quality, i tested the water a day prior and everything was fine.

 

[kno4te]

Might be an injury for the tetra but just me.

 

[bichirmuncher]

I think it might be a bacteria infection. I just came back from work to find the tetra’s entire eye blood shot red

 

[kno4te]

You can try maracyn2 or triple sulfa.

 

[bichirmuncher]

ok, thank you.