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Also what are the chances of this being fish tb?   One of them looks pretty tatty, a couple of the others have a few dark marks on them (yellow labs) and have a lost a little colour, but mostly just look skinny. Some are doing white clear long stringy poo's as well.    Couldnt get any decent...

Hi,   I had a fish just die on me last week who was very skinny and wouldn't eat anything for months until he finally died. Now I have noticed a couple more of my cichlids have started doing this, and are looking very skinny around the belly.   Could this be a parasite issue, what should I do?  ...

Hi, Thanks for your reply. the behaviour has massively improved over the last day or so and they seem far more settled.   However, those white patches / spots on the yellows, any chance that could this be ich? or do they look ok?   Thanks

Hi, Tank is a 55 gallon / 200 litre. 8 smallish Mbuna Cichlids...

Hi Both thanks for the replies, and thanks for confirming the filter setup looks ok.   With regards to the nitrate Cha4rlie, as mentioned previously I am using a Pozzani nitrate filter to fiter nitrates out from my tap water so the tap water that went into the tank contained 0 ppm of nitrates...

Hi, thanks for the reply. Yes, the tank was cycled using household ammonia, the cycle completed a few weeks ago, but I wasn't ready to get fish as I noticed the nitrates form the tap were high so waited until the I got the pozzani nitrate filter, but did keep adding ammonia each day (with the...

Hi All,   New to fish keeping and just had a couple of questions and some thing I wanted to double check regarding my tank setup and expected nitrate levels after 48 hours.     I have new tank that was fishless cycled, post cycle I did a 95% water change with water filtered by a Pozzani Nitrate...

Hi All & Merry Christmas.   After a fishless cycle and much research I finally picked up some fish yesterday for my first ever tank from my LFS (4 x Yellow Labs and 4 x Yellow Tail Acei)   Since sticking them in the tank initially they were all highly active and were swimming up and down in one...

Thanks all for all the replies. In the end I decided it would be best to do a fishless cycle took and managed to take the fish back to the lfs, which they were very accommodating with.   Now I just need to work out where to get some ammonia and how to do the cycle.   Thanks again to all.

Many thanks for the reply, but the link doesn't seem to work - it takes me to some weird infolinks page.

Hi All,   Looking for some urgent advise please! :-( New to fish keeping, purchased a brand new 55gal tank and all new equipment about 6 weeks ago from my lfs to house Mbuna Cichlids.   I spoke at length with them about what I needed to do to get the tank operational and ready for fish, and...