Ruth101

OK I've increased temp and aeration and added salt, I'm also adding epsom salt to their food. The sick moori is looking much the same which is good I think. I retested the water again and nitrite abs ammonia were 0, nitrate was 5.pH 7.5 so I'm slowly raising that with a little baking soda each day as usual. I'm wondering if the stress culprit might have been a binder clip that flicked into the tank at some point, the sand around it was rust colored so would have been leaching a lot of iron into the water. Nobody dead today that I can see so fingers crossed.

Thanks again for your advice - my beautiful tropheus is looking like he's getting sick too. where do you get you metro from? My vet was real suss about it and took a bit of convincing - I doubt he would give me any more and I've got it prescribed for every second day. If if I was wanting to dose the whole tank with Epsom how much would you recommend? I'll add it to the food for the ones who are eating too.

Thanks Greg, yup using trichozole tabs. The vet gave me 3 dodes worth so I'm hoping that wI'll be enough I add salt already but not at that dose (1 tbs for a 175l water change) so I'll up that today and add more Epsom (normally add 3tbs with the water change) I'll have another go at the no3 test and try get more air stones in, our water sits at about 27 normally. Thanks so much for your advice - no dead fish yet today.

I'm in taupo, I rinse the sponges and bio media out. two more aurora with bloat today, it's a bloody disaster here. No other fish are showing those white spots now. I have done another water change and treated the tank with metronidazole today - really at a loss of what else to try now. Never last this many fish before, it's ruddy awful.

Thanks for the replies, yes we use the Api kit but it could be expired I guess. we have since lost the lemon cichlid and a peacock. I did a bit water change today but they are still looking stressed. We use prime and I cleaned the filters out as well. I'm really at a loss - we have never lost this many fish in such a short time before and the amount of babies in the tank has reduced. We also lost an aurora to bloat which I had never seen before. Any help would be really appreciate

Hi everyone, I have a 600l African cichlid tank which runs pretty smoothly most of the time. I have sand substrate, plenty of rocks, two cannister filters and do a water change every week. Earlier this week I woke up to find a normally healthy frontosa dead and a dying aurora who didn't survive. we did a water change and everything tested up fine. Ammonia, nitrate and nitrite 0, pH 8.2. Water temp 24c. our lemon cichlid also looked worse for wear along with quite a few other fish who recovered nicely with the water change. The lemon cichlid hasn't however, he's a bit sluggish, panting with funny white ?spikes around one gill cover. Photo below. Any ideas? Very difficult to pull fish out of this tank due to rocks. Another blue peakock isn't well with clamped fins, hanging out at the top and generally unhappy with a raw area by his fin Sorry it won't let me upload another photo, as it's too big I think?

We call them fronts too Ours do well on new life spectrum (off trademe) and home made food, previously fed omega one supercolor which worked well too

Thanks for your replies, I was intending to keep some and give some away, we already have a few electric yellows so I don't want to many more. How do you know when they are 'ready' to be stripped? If mum is left to it (as long as she doesn't lose too much condition) will there be less likelihood of the fry being eaten?

Hi everyone We have a large tank with a mix of African cichlids. I noticed last night that the female electric yellow wasn't eating, and spotted some eggs in her mouth. She has had eggs before, but I didn't notice until she spat them out to eat an earthworm and another fish gobbled them up. She seems to be hanging on much tighter this time, but the male is still chasing her around and I am also worried about the likely possibility of the other fish eating the fry when they hatch. What I am wondering is, should I get a net or plastic breeder to put her in until they hatch? I am actually a bit of a novice fish owner so stoaked to see the eggs - must be doing something right! We don't have the option of getting a second tank to put her in at this stage. The things I am concerned about with the breeders are; Circulation - does the water exchange well enough to support the fry with their oxygen and purity needs? I have read elsewhere that net breeders can be dangerous as adults try and such the fry through the net. The plastic breeders I have looked at seem to have separate levels for the fry - does this also accumulate waste? How do you clean the waste out of the breeders without hurting the fry? Thanks for any advice you can give! Sorry for such a long first post!