On 7/17/07 I switched my 180 gallon tank from Central/South American Cichlid's to Afircan's. I added 200 lbs. of unknown rock (but not the flackey kind), sand as a substrate, and added 10 lbs. of crushed coral to my fluval fx5 for buffering. I also have 2 AC 110's and a 36 watt coralife uv sterilizer for filtration. The tank has been set up since 9/2006 and before that was a saltwater set up, so there is no biological issues. Since 7/17, I have added around 10-11 fish (only 7 left now). I had another 75 gallon African tank set up in 2004 for about a year, but have keeping all types of fish for 35 years. My M. Callainos died last night. He was the first fish added to the new set up. On 7/17 I added a A. Stuartgranti which was dead the next day. Last Saturday I added a M. Johannii which was also dead the next day. The fish are from 3 different lfs. All the fish were eating well with absolutely no signs of bloat or any poor health, then when I checked the tank the following day they were dead. The 7 fish that are left are in good health and are eating great, for now.
My question is, do other people have issues with africans dieing with no signs of health problems, or anyone have any idea what is going on with mine? On the 75 I had in '04 I used to lose alot of fish also, for unknown reasons. I feed times 2-3 daily, NLS cichlids pellets and tetra spirulina. I kow the proper procedures for acclimating fish. When I had the CA/SA cichlids I would never lose any of those.
I guess I would like to know if other people tend to lose African's more than other fish they have kept?
Nitrites- 0 ppm
Nitrates- 40 ppm (trying to bring them down after the CA/SA's are out of the tank)
Ammonia- 0 ppm
PH- 8.0 ppm
60 gallons a week water changes on a 180.
My question is, do other people have issues with africans dieing with no signs of health problems, or anyone have any idea what is going on with mine? On the 75 I had in '04 I used to lose alot of fish also, for unknown reasons. I feed times 2-3 daily, NLS cichlids pellets and tetra spirulina. I kow the proper procedures for acclimating fish. When I had the CA/SA cichlids I would never lose any of those.
I guess I would like to know if other people tend to lose African's more than other fish they have kept?
Nitrites- 0 ppm
Nitrates- 40 ppm (trying to bring them down after the CA/SA's are out of the tank)
Ammonia- 0 ppm
PH- 8.0 ppm
60 gallons a week water changes on a 180.
WHERE DID THE ROCK COME FROM?? DID YOU DO ANYTHING TO THE ROCK B4 YOU PUT IT IN TO THE TANK??