I am so sick of the BLOAT!!!

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i had one african that had a problem with bloat but that was my fault, my other fish are fine. i recommend new life spectrum (NLS) i feed the cichlid formula as my staple. It was a hap that had the problem, not my tropheus which are supposed to be fragile. Defintily try the NLS, it rocks.
 
scottgeeze;971817; said:
I feed them a varied diet (flakes, pellets, bloodworms) but I still get it. Maybe it's just the cichlids in Michigan. It's Bulls*#t!!!!:irked:
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fish head )'>;972089; said:
I have always been under the impression that bloat is dietary not a filtration issue. The only bloat death that I had was a herbivore African in an omnivore/carnivore tank with a way too high meat diet.
If it is a Michigan fish store problem I hope you do not live in SE michigan (cause I do!)
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correct! :) :) :) :)

very true, herbivorous african cichlids on a high protein meaty diet will indefinately have this problem.

i gauarantee if you try again and have them on a strict plant base diet, you will never see "bloat" again.
 
of the six yellow labs i have, one got bloat. Was slowly getting better before it jumped out of the hospital tank and died. The only reason that i could think it got bloat was from the tetra min flakes i fed for about a week. Before that, was brine shrimps, blood worms, or cichlid micro pellets.
Stopped using flakes altogether on my labs and so far, no bloat.
 
tyl089;987953; said:
of the six yellow labs i have, one got bloat. Was slowly getting better before it jumped out of the hospital tank and died. The only reason that i could think it got bloat was from the tetra min flakes i fed for about a week. Before that, was brine shrimps, blood worms, or cichlid micro pellets. Stopped using flakes altogether on my labs and so far, no bloat.
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is that what he eats now?
 
six days a week, either one cube of blood worms, brine shrimp, or spirulina brine shrimp. All one cube defrosted. Supplemented with romain lettuce. Seventh day, no feed for them to fully digest and get rid of their excess food. So far, five healthy labs, and no bloat. Also, no flakes for me except to feed to gold fish in pond and i crush those really fine.
 
DeLgAdO;987923; said:
correct! :) :) :) :)

very true, herbivorous african cichlids on a high protein meaty diet will indefinately have this problem.

i gauarantee if you try again and have them on a strict plant base diet, you will never see "bloat" again.
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:iagree:
 
DeLgAdO;987923; said:
i gauarantee if you try again and have them on a strict plant base diet, you will never see "bloat" again.
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Thats a mighty confident call. How exactly are you going to guarrantee this? Is it a replacement guarantee? Is it a lifetime guarantee? Are there any conditions? Can I hold you to this?
Just kidding but it makes me wonder why you`d even say this?
 
I keep Glo-lites as dithers and I lost one a month to bloat.


I finally picked up a UV and whatever parasite my tank has seems to be under wraps.
 
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