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I have a nine year old male Rainbow cichlid that is 4 inches long and has swim bladder and is at the bottom of the tank in a curve. He has been like this for two days. Reluctantly i feel that it is time to put him out of his misery. Please could someone give me some advice as the kindest way...

Thanks for the advice, much appreciated. I will keep you updated.

What a transformation! Great work! You have obviously put in a great deal of effort into this project. Enjoy!!!

It might help. I presume there is no way you can turn down the flow of water as they say you can never over filter a tank but the flow of water could be the problem. How about adding more plants such as amazon sword to help disperse the flow of water before changing the filter?

When you had the more powerful filter attached were the fish having to swim more frantically than normal to compete against the current? Please don't take these comments personally but i'm trying to think of all the options.

Tank size sounds fine. Is there any debris at all on the bottom of the tank? Even if there is a little bit on the bottom as i have found out in the past this can reduce oxygen levels.

Thanks for your advice. I will keep you updated.

Thanks for your reply. He is in a 2 foot tank but is about 6 inches long. Part of the problem i'm having is finding big enough Cichlids to put with him as i think that anything smaller he would hassle. He is quite aggressive and this might sound strange but has been know to face up to our cat at...

I have an adult male 8 year old Rainbow Cichlid that i have owned since he was very small. I originally had two females with him and he produced one baby with one of them. Over the last three years despite my best efforts both females and the young fish have passed away. The male has been on his...

My Wifes 92 year old grandad has got some goldfish in a 2 foot aquarium which he gets a great deal of enjoyment out of and i help maintain. The goldfish have been in the tank for about 18 months when they were brought in from the small garden pond. One of the fish has a very large stomach but...

She looks much better. Great news. Really glad that we could help. Keep us up to date.

No worries!

I'm British and thought you were too, just trying to be helpful.

I would go down the route of getting 2-3 females. Getting more male guppies would be a good short term solution but if you wanted to add more females in the future there would be a problem. Could also affect other possible future purchases of female livebearers.

I'm not very good at converting size of tank to amount of litres it holds. I' guessing your tank is about 18 inches long? If it is you could go for dwarf gouramis, just a word of warning they can be very timid and will need a close eye kept on them. Have you ruled out any sort of tetra? If not...