Please advise :)

[brujah]

I am new to these forums and to Cichlids. I just got my fish fish in my 100lt (from New Zealand so not sure in g), I bought a Peacock (i am told) but they couldn't give me the full name .

The tank has 800lt/per hour filtration and ph of 7.8 atm, I have used Natural Trace-Cichlid additive along with Cichlid Lake Salt and Stress Zyme+.

For the first 2 days he just swam around the tank edges and wouldn't even look at food. Now he has calmed down quite a bit and go to the food and eats it, but spits it out after 2-3min . I have been feeding him Cichlid Excel mini pellets as well as boiled peas (with husk removed).

He has been in the tank for 4 days now, i am getting worried cause he is not holding down his meals.

Any help would be greatly appreciated .

 

[Red Devil]

the only suggestion i can make is try something else.. can you get hikari pellets or something similiar... even try a piece of freeze dried krill or frozen blood worms and see how he does.. he may not like the food your feeding... you have only had him a few days.. any way of finding out what the lfs or previous owner fed him... give some other kind of foods a try... let us know.. he is a beauty...

 

[brujah]

Thanks for the lightning fast reply , it was greatly appreciated!

I went to the shop where I bought him and they said they were feeding him Spirulina Algae Flakes, so I bought a small container and he still didn't want to eat

I ran all the tests I know of and found the Ammonia reading was 1, and the hardness was a little high. I did a 30% water change and added some Ammo Lock. He seemed much happier, but still wasn't keeping his food down.

I then got a call from the fish shop to say that they had just received a female peacock, so I rushed in and bought her and some electric yellows.

Since the peacock met his new tank mates he seemed way more calm and is eating and keeping down all the food i give him now

 

[tydus]

Nice fish! Your fish isn't actually a peacock, but a [SIZE=-1]Otopharynx lithobates. I'm glad that he is doing a whole lot better.
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[CichlidsRool]

Nice fish! Your fish isn't actually a peacock, but a [SIZE=-1]Otopharynx lithobates. I'm glad that he is doing a whole lot better.
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listen to this guy!!!!! right on the nose bro!

 

[brujah]

Thank you sir! I am so glad to know what he is exactly. Stupid fish store... will be having a word with them lol
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[greenearthlawns]

He is a really beautiful fish!!! what kind of female did you get it actually looks like the same type as he so you lucked out possibly!!... Nice electric yellows though! Yeah the fish stores rarely know what type of africans they are selling you so thats no shocker, you get used to it lol

 

[brujah]

The female was from the same supplier as the male lithobate and is the same, I really did luck out

Put some more fish in this week, they are all doing really well!

Here are a few updated pics,

 

[mike dunagan]

Watch stocking aggressive mbuna with haps and peacocks.

 

[Allan01230]

Well Mike you beat me to the punch! Brujah stay away from any of the pseudotrophus mbunas. They are usually torpedo shaped with stripes and bars. They are usually blue and some are red. The electric yellows are an exception. The others are crazy aggressive and will shred the fins and even kill your peacocks and haps. They do best crowded in with other pseudotrophus.