I posted this on the health forum yesterday got no responses thought I try here.
I got 6 baby cichla on 4/11 3 ocell and 3 tems they are all about 2". I have lost 2 ocell. Here are water paras
Ammonia 0 ppm
nitrite 0ppm
nitrate 5 ppm
ph 7.2
water temp 86
grow out tank is a 40 plan on putting them in a 240.
the first one died about after 4 days in the tank. No real signs just found him dead in morning. Last night the other died. He had a very small white fungus on the pec fin and was having a hard time breathing. The others in the tank are starting to show some signs as well. The last ocell has a small white spot on tip of lower jaw not sure if it from running into something in the tank. 2 of the tems eyes look slightly cloudy. The r all eating now. The 2 i lost stopped eating.
I did a 15 percent water change last night. Tank is salted to reccomendations on box from api.
was thinking of using melafix and pimafix?
I am very disappointed with this i have not lost a fish in about 3 years but this is a new direction for me. I have been only keeping fancy goldfish for the past 6 years. They never really had any issues.
That was yesterday's post.
I did another water change of 15% and removed my gravel. I treated with melafix and pimafix.
The reason I removed the gravel was as I was vacuuming I noticed that there were dead guppies stuck in the rocks with white fungus on them. The gravel I used was a little bit larger that I use on my goldfish tank (they like to eat the small ones) and I guess the guppies got stuck in them and died.
I got 6 baby cichla on 4/11 3 ocell and 3 tems they are all about 2". I have lost 2 ocell. Here are water paras
Ammonia 0 ppm
nitrite 0ppm
nitrate 5 ppm
ph 7.2
water temp 86
grow out tank is a 40 plan on putting them in a 240.
the first one died about after 4 days in the tank. No real signs just found him dead in morning. Last night the other died. He had a very small white fungus on the pec fin and was having a hard time breathing. The others in the tank are starting to show some signs as well. The last ocell has a small white spot on tip of lower jaw not sure if it from running into something in the tank. 2 of the tems eyes look slightly cloudy. The r all eating now. The 2 i lost stopped eating.
I did a 15 percent water change last night. Tank is salted to reccomendations on box from api.
was thinking of using melafix and pimafix?
I am very disappointed with this i have not lost a fish in about 3 years but this is a new direction for me. I have been only keeping fancy goldfish for the past 6 years. They never really had any issues.
That was yesterday's post.
I did another water change of 15% and removed my gravel. I treated with melafix and pimafix.
The reason I removed the gravel was as I was vacuuming I noticed that there were dead guppies stuck in the rocks with white fungus on them. The gravel I used was a little bit larger that I use on my goldfish tank (they like to eat the small ones) and I guess the guppies got stuck in them and died.
