Help! My Cichlid Is Dying! :(((, help |
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 Oct 10 2006, 12:41 AM
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Fish Fanatic  Group: Members Posts: 46 Joined: 29-September 06 Member No.: 25324  |
I just used up my last few bucks on 2 cichlids, a blue and a yellow, the blue seems healthy but the yellow is trying its best to swim but it keeps falling and then ends up laying on the sand
He is breathing sort of hard the water temperature is about 80 and theres an all you can eat goldfish in there what is wrong? Please help... |
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Oct 10 2006, 01:31 AM
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 Fishaholic  Group: Members Posts: 407 Joined: 25-April 06 Member No.: 20879 |
Tank size? Water stats? Ammonia, nitrites, Ph? Will be much easier to help if we had those things.
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Oct 10 2006, 01:37 AM
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Fish Fanatic Group: Members Posts: 46 Joined: 29-September 06 Member No.: 25324 |
I use amquel to get rid of amquel and such
The temperature is 80ish its a 30 gallon tank And the fish is about 4inches long The yellow one just died....  The blue oen loojks like its about to die.. Im really scared for them I have an albino oscar that is still doing well |
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Oct 10 2006, 01:45 AM
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 Fish Fanatic Group: Members Posts: 78 Joined: 28-May 06 From: Massachusetts, USA Member No.: 21656 |
We need the stats for Ammonia, Nitrite, and Nitrate. Did you cycle your tank before adding the fish?
If you have an Oscar in a 30G than you are overstocked not even including the other fish. It needs 55-75G all to itself. And you should not be using feeder goldfish. They aren't healthy and can carry diseases. |
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Oct 10 2006, 07:35 AM
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 Leader of the Fishes  Group: Members Posts: 3126 Joined: 27-November 05 From: Addingham, West Yorks (Near Leeds/Bradford) Member No.: 17242 |
QUOTE(gosu-pk @ Oct 10 2006, 02:37 AM) [snapback]1337985[/snapback] I use amquel to get rid of amquel and such The temperature is 80ish its a 30 gallon tank And the fish is about 4inches long The yellow one just died.... The blue oen loojks like its about to die.. Im really scared for them I have an albino oscar that is still doing well the 2 new cichlids sound like africans so they should be kept with other african cichlids and require a much higher PH. if the tank they came from had this then they have probably had a PH shock when put in your tank. the goldfish or the oscar shouldnt be in a 30G either....... |
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Oct 10 2006, 07:54 AM
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 - l l a m a s - Group: Members Posts: 2418 Joined: 23-March 06 From: British Columbia, Canada Member No.: 20038 |
Yep sounds like ph shock to me..
Your ph is probably anywhere from 6.5-7.0 and the ph the fish were in is probably anywhere from 7.5-8.0 They probably are dying of shock.. the only way you'd MAYBE be able to save the other one is if you can get it into water with the same ph it came in.. I don't think you know what the ph it came in was at.. Sorry, but I think your other fish is going to die too.. |
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