Gannet Posted September 20, 2006 Report Share Posted September 20, 2006 they r hiding all the time and only come out to eat, but before i added the gold line royal plec they would be out and swiming all the time, i have eletric yellows, kingsizis, arutus, rainbow melacromis, Ps aruroa, usd cats, GAE, and the gold line royal. they are in a AR-980 at 26c and weekly water changes of about 1/3rd Ph 7.5-7.6 nit 0 nat 0 amm 0 substrate coral balls, and about 50caves, there is also a bubble wall. ANY IDEAS? because im stumped!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malawi_man Posted September 20, 2006 Report Share Posted September 20, 2006 umm, i find that they wont come out with too much light. Otherwise try some dither fish such as melanotaenia species (rainbow fish) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanjury Posted September 20, 2006 Report Share Posted September 20, 2006 Yeah we added rainbows and they're great, other dithers that are good are pearl danios and basically anything friendly enough to come out and fast enough to get old of the way. I was going to use gold barbs (because they were 5 for $12) in one tank but managed to stick 2 rainbows in and they did the job. I had a similair problem when the PH fell but I see yours is fine so shouldn't be that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herefishiefishie Posted September 20, 2006 Report Share Posted September 20, 2006 My first question to this is always...do you have a dominant fish the others may be wary of? Frenchy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gannet Posted September 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 20, 2006 there are 2 main fish which i think would be dominant, one kingsizi, and the male arutras, but they are hidding just as much if not more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoandWilly Posted September 20, 2006 Report Share Posted September 20, 2006 try adding some of the haplochromis speices, they are more of a open water fish so wont hide in the rocks or anything, we have dolphins in our tank and have never had all the fish want to hide, but for some reason occasionally our fish will get spooked and all try to hide including the dolphins, which i think are the ones that spook the easiest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herefishiefishie Posted September 20, 2006 Report Share Posted September 20, 2006 In that case is there a chance something or someone could be spooking the fish. Cat, child..... Another thing you can do is take some of the caves out. The more caves, the more places to hide. I have tanks with just mbunas in it & have hardly had the problem being discussed at the moment. Except when a male wants to breed they others lay low for a while or hang out down the other end of the tank. Frenchy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoandWilly Posted September 21, 2006 Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 I find anything moving past our tank that is black spooks the fish, black t-shirt, paper, a glass of coke lol, our 3 foot is right next to our fridge and i used the side of the stand to pour my coke into the glass sometimes and that would always spook the fish, its just something about black that none of them like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gannet Posted September 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 i have a feeling that they are getting over there little tanty now as they are coming out more and more, i have a feeling becuase there routine was interupted by me going away for the weekend, i also left the bubbles off to day and they are out now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bOi Posted September 21, 2006 Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 They just miss you :roll: Lesson learnt: Love your fishies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gatito Posted February 14, 2007 Report Share Posted February 14, 2007 Hey Gannet, how big is the tank and how many of each malawi have you got in there? Just out of interest while planning my own tank P.S. Sorry you couldn't make it on tuesday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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