I know what you meant by tough and you’re right about it but I just meant for how long I’ve had him for he’s had so many diseases and problems and is doing perfectly now but when he was younger he was a pain in the ass
Vieja cichlid with white on it
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Yeah, they do like to be pains. I’ve got fish that like to perpetually scare me, others that have never shown signs of illness once.
looks like a basic aggression injury to me i see similar ones very frequently caused by scraping agains taracotta pots, rocks, or being swiped at by a fish with a large mouth like a pike cichlid. the fact that hes had so many problems leads me to believe there is possibly something wrong with your water chemistry unless you were just really really bad about quarantining allot of fish. do you have a high ph or poor water quality? a combination of unprestine water with unfavorable ph can cause issues big issues for cichlids. if youre keeping the ph purposefully really low you could have problems with ammonia nitrite and nitrate because theyre harder to control in a low ph warm environment. things as simple as electrolytes and carbonate could help prevent allot of disease in aquarium fish.
looks like he has a small split on another fin near the tail fin injury making it look even more like aggression. its the type of injury that can dissapear in less than 24 hours, add a little stress guard and id almost guarantee itd be gone by the morning.
No that fish was actually the first fish I’ve ever had and I was careless now that I’ve learned no much more since then I’ve always kept perfect water perimeters and good care of my fish
