the wife and i was walking around petco last night looking at fish. and there was this African cichlid that somebody brought in i dont know if it got to big for there tank or what. but i have never seen one like it. it looks like a big convict but has the hanging fins like a angel fish. i got some pics of it with my phone but arent to good i will try and get some better ones with a actual camera. but my question is it looked fine in there tank but when i woke up this morning its losing scales. i have never had this problem. before i added the fish i did a 50% water change cleaned all the rocks and all of that. the tank is a 100 gallon i have a 9-10" oscar a 8-9" jd and this new fish. i bought some parasite medicine to put in there. to try that and hope it helps anyone have any idea why this is happening to this new fish?
New fish losing scales.
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wow! nice fish... looks like what a convict and a frontosa have a baby hahaha...... it could be a stress thing> or it could be a parasite depends on what the scales look like are the while and fuzzy or are they torn??
thanks we thought he looked kinda neat different none the less. plus he was basically free all i had to do was make a 10 dollar donation for him. but it is worth it. but there just coming off and the fins are kinda torn. he didn't look like this when i bought him. like i said i did a 50% wc last night and cleaned everything and then just now i put some parasite treatment in there. tomorrow or saturday i will do a 25% wc and see how muttzey (name of the new fish) is doing. i really think it is just stress since he didn't look like that last night. plus he went from the old owners tank to petco tank then to my tank in like 2 days so that's a lot of moving around for him. but i figured it can't hurt anything doing a parasite treatment just to be safe.
called petco and they said to bring in the fish and pick out something else.Never medicate a fish tank unless you know for sure what is wrong with them. You can cause more harm than good by throwing random meds in your setup....I bet one of your other fish was picking on it, missing scales and split fins are almost always a sign of fighting.