Hello, in my 350L malawi tank, i have some issues, my labidos and maylandia maison reef are sick.
Some stopped eating; wasnt moving a lot, was scratching against the floor, one of them had an ulcer at the head (maybe it wasnt related) and i also observed white feces.
My water parameters are:
- 7.8ph
- 0 nitrate (i have many pothos in the tank)
- 0 nitrite
- 8 GH
- 15 kh
(strip type tests, so some parameters might be a bit different than reality)
My tank was setup since months, they might have been infected when i've add the maylandias? I'm not doing many water changes since the nitrates are at 0 because of the pothos, i'm siphonning it every week. While i'm doing that maintenance, i clean half of my mechanic filter with the aquarium water, other half the next time.
I feed them few different type of food, different brand, spiruline based. I've also let their food sink in garlic juice few times (heard it could have helped it if was itnestinal parasites?)
At first i only saw the scratching and the ulcer so used some anti bacterias medecine(i forgot the name).
Then did a first treatement of the water and food with "preis coly", i didnt see any changes.
Then i did a treatement with flagyl, but i'm not sure if they are cured, overall they seems to be much better, i occasionally see some scratching, but it's rare so i don't know if it's a normal behavior or parasites. (i've raised the temperature by 2°c during the treatement)
5-6 of my labidos died during that time.
Now, i only have 3 juvenile and 3 adults labido alive and 4 maylandias.
Only one of my fish is still very skinny and he developped some white spots that i can't explain.
If you have any advices, any ideas, i would like some help, i've been dealing with issues in that tank for weeks now and i'm sad to see my fishs dying without being able to do anything.
Some stopped eating; wasnt moving a lot, was scratching against the floor, one of them had an ulcer at the head (maybe it wasnt related) and i also observed white feces.
My water parameters are:
- 7.8ph
- 0 nitrate (i have many pothos in the tank)
- 0 nitrite
- 8 GH
- 15 kh
(strip type tests, so some parameters might be a bit different than reality)
My tank was setup since months, they might have been infected when i've add the maylandias? I'm not doing many water changes since the nitrates are at 0 because of the pothos, i'm siphonning it every week. While i'm doing that maintenance, i clean half of my mechanic filter with the aquarium water, other half the next time.
I feed them few different type of food, different brand, spiruline based. I've also let their food sink in garlic juice few times (heard it could have helped it if was itnestinal parasites?)
At first i only saw the scratching and the ulcer so used some anti bacterias medecine(i forgot the name).
Then did a first treatement of the water and food with "preis coly", i didnt see any changes.
Then i did a treatement with flagyl, but i'm not sure if they are cured, overall they seems to be much better, i occasionally see some scratching, but it's rare so i don't know if it's a normal behavior or parasites. (i've raised the temperature by 2°c during the treatement)
5-6 of my labidos died during that time.
Now, i only have 3 juvenile and 3 adults labido alive and 4 maylandias.
Only one of my fish is still very skinny and he developped some white spots that i can't explain.
If you have any advices, any ideas, i would like some help, i've been dealing with issues in that tank for weeks now and i'm sad to see my fishs dying without being able to do anything.
