No, I get what you're saying. It's why I removed Bobo over a year ago from the main tank. I saw the writing on the wall. Losing Pepper was out of nowhere, really. And Patch was in her own tank due to aggression. All of the parrots are in separate tanks for this reason...it's also why I moved Corn (severum) out of the 225 because he was starting to piss off the Oscar which would get him beat up or dead. The fish in the tank now do mostly posturing with no damage. Its been follow the bouncing tanks for months. Once the 125 stand gets here I can place the most compatible ones in it. Tango would work in a community tank because he's only aggressive around other parrots.I'm so very sorry for your loss FINWIN . It is even more poignant given that I wouldn't have my choc if it wasn't for Bobo.
You've had such rotten luck lately and I was wondering if all your troubles have been pure coincidence, or whether something is amiss.
I know you fondly refer to your cichlid set up as "goon city", and we've all read your stories in this thread regarding the daily antics that your fish get up to.
We all look on their daily activity/shenanigans light heartedly, but what if there was some serious stress going on between the fish? Not necessarily manifesting itself in pure violence between the fish, but just a slow burning type stress, which ultimately led to health problems? We all know what stress leads to in fish.
I dunno. Just trying to offer something at this sad time, so that moving forward you don't have to go through the heartache and expense again.
Can you show a pic? Sounds like you may catch whatever is going on early. I'm kinda depressed about Bobo so I'll help if I can.So sorry to hear, that was a gorgeous fish. You seem very devoted to them which makes it even harder. I think I may be dealing with the same issue with my BP, Happy, since he's my favorite its almost enuff to consider calling quits if he doesn't get better...
2 days ago his left nostril looked like a big white pimple and I'm not sure what to do other than wc's. I'm not very experienced with fish sickness so fingers crossed. Going to try a few things as you have and hope for the best, we have no one near by to contact since their just fish in everyone's eyes in my area.