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Ok we will start doing small water changes almost daily for a week before the big weekend change/smaller midweek change plan. No one answered my question about Melafix so last night I decided to go ahead and put some in the tank. The lima stopped shedding his slime coat, his eyes are clearing...

Sorry, my husband is the one that initially relayed back to me what you guys responded and he left that part out. We're planning on doing our big water change on weekends and a smaller one during the week. The big one will be tough though, our water heater sucks and just changing 30% drains...

Thought our water testing kit had a KH tester but it doesn't. However, pH in our regular tap water is 7.2 while it's 6.1 in the 180. It's also about 7.2 in the other aquariums. Why would it be lower in the big tank? We don't treat the water any differently. Should I add some Melafix to the big...

Hi...we have a 180 gallon aquarium, among others. The 180 houses a lima shovelnose (about 4 years old, 13"), four juvenile jaguar cichlids (we plan on giving away two and keeping a pair), four plecos (two gibbiceps, one liposarcus, one rhino), two young senegal bichirs and a spotted raphael cat...

Please, I need a response if anyone has one....thanks.

I suspect a couple cichlids in the 180 have parasites :angry: They look like a few white dots of varying sizes on the body and fins, with more near the mouth of one larger fish. It is not ick. The tank hosts one adult male texas cichlid (he has it the worst), four baby jaguar cichlids (about...

I have a male CT that I've had for nearly a year; he lives in a planted 4g Finnex aquarium by himself. The aquarium is heated (78 degrees F) and has a miniature filter with peat moss and lava rock as filtration media. He is very happy in here and is fed a good varied diet (freeze dried...

That's a good idea, we also need to sell all the adult (well, 3") cichlids in that tank except one. I guess I could sell the two jags that spawned as a pair now...unfortunately I think we'll have to stop at selling a texas/jag pair since we wanted to keep that female jag! But now I am kind of...

Thanks for your input :) Shortly after I wrote the original post, I spotted a second pair of fish--both jags--laying eggs on the other side of the 75. I've never actually seen cichlids lay eggs before so it was fun to watch. But I wonder what's going to happen now--what if both sets of eggs...

I have an adult oscar and a sub-adult Texas cichlid residing in a 180 (along with some other non-cichlid fish). We are also growing out six young cichlids (four jags, two texas) in a 75. The adult oscar has a tumor (not currently life-threatening--it does not affect him in any way except it...

Travis Bickle is my all-time movie hero! "Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the street"....it's my email signature :D More people will recognize the quote, "You talkin' to me?" though :good: Lisa, I agree your plec should be named Travis. And he is also gorgeous...

De Niro! I love that name--Robert is my favorite actor (as well as my fiance's). I named Tony after Al Pacino's character in Scarface. Glad you liked the pics :)

I've decided I will leave the rhino in the 180, at least for the time being. Instead I'll put my giant bristlenose pleco in the 75. He's at his max size of 5" but I think he will enjoy it in the 75. I posted pics of my "monsters" in a new thread, I hope you enjoy them! :)

I was going to post these pics in the 180/75 thread I made in this forum but decided to put them up as a new thread. I have four large plecos--I had five until recently (a chocolate albino liposarcus). All four reside in a 180 gallon tank. I have some other small plecos in different tanks but...

My 15 year old Liposarcus pardalis does this now and then. She recently started doing this a couple years ago. But she is perfectly fine in every other way so I'm not concerned.

Last night my 11" 'chocolate albino' pardalis pleco died. He lived in a 75 gallon (18x18x48 standard). I have a 180 gallon aquarium with four plecos--a 13" L. pardalis, a 17" G. gibbiceps, an albino 9" G. gibbiceps and an 8" G. scrophus (rhino). All plecos get enough food/shelter and get...

The last time we added new fish was when we added the giant danios in I think early Feb. It was when the baby cichlids were tiny and scared of everything (and yes the danios worked! :D ) We did change the tank's water on Sunday or Monday but it was nothing out of the ordinary. The last time...

My 6.5 year old 'chocolate albino' pleco died last night :( . He was nearly 11" long. He used to be classified under Liposarcus pardalis on planet catfish but I'm not sure where he is on there now. So what happened? On Wednesday night when I came home from work I noticed he was swimming...

There's already a massive piece of driftwood in the tank...here's a pic: I like the gravel idea, I could give that a shot....I could lightly coat the plastic then roll it in gravel spread out on an old towel or sheet.

Terracotta caves would take up too much space...besides, I doubt I could find one that will fit my 17" gibbiceps in his entirety. That's, um, a massive terracotta cave :blink: How about this...after my driftwood has been in the water awhile and plecos have been gnawing on it..it sometimes...

I don't know if this is in the right forum, I've only posted in Emergencies before now. I want to make my jumbo plecos a cave out of 6" black corrugated plastic pipe. I want to put smooth-laying driftwood bark on it for two reasons: so it's also kind of edible to them and so it looks 1000x...

Thanks for all the information, you guys....I think that it wouldn't hurt to give the Clout and epsom salts a try first. It'll mean putting the big guy back in the 20g tank again and he will hate that but if it helps, it'll be worth it. At the worst, nothing will change and I'll just have a...

How old was your angel when she got the tumor and has she gotten any more? I'm assuming I should put the oscar back in the 20g for the clout. I've never used clout before but I've heard of it. Once I'm done treating him, should I put him back in the 180? He is much happier in there. Do I put...

So you guys think One-Eye has a tumor then? :( What are some distinctive signs of this, other than the swelling? What causes this, what are the symptoms, and is it treatable?

For further reference, I'll post a few pics of One-Eye...the first two are from when he was 2 years old, the latter were taken last fall.

Possibly a slight one, he does have more of a rounded body shape while your typical oscar has an oval shape. I know that often people with skeletal deformities get worse as they get older, maybe the same could apply to fish. But I'm not sure how that affects his equilibrium. When he's swimming...

I wish someone could come here and take a look at him themselves. The way he acts is either alarming (laying on his side in a deep sleep) or normal, so it's confusing. One side of his body is slightly sunken and the other side is the opposite but it's not obvious. It's not his belly...just the...

He's about 6.5 years old. I don't think he's dying...I'm not sure. He was swimming around and said hello to me when I got home...then he started to beg for food so I gave him a couple pellets and he ate them fine. Then he proceeded to bully his cichlid tankmate (a young male Texas cichlid) for...

When I get home I will test the water and post accurate water stats (I'm at work now). The oscar has no symptoms of HITH...he has a couple "dents" on his head but they've been there his entire life...since he's deformed I guess he was just born with the dents. I have always been careful about...

How could he have parasites with a bacterial infection on top? We have not introduced any new fish in a long time...we moved in September and the fish have been together in the big tank since then. I'm puzzled about how he could have gotten this...if it is indeed the problem. Before he started...

Here's some background, please read...: http://www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=141009&hl= We took the oscar out of the sick tank and put him back in the 180 on Sunday afternoon. By then, he had been in the tank for a week, one full round of medication (Maracyn I and II) and lots of...

Thanks for all your help, I really appreciate it :)

He is looking good--he's not tilting to the side anymore. And I think the 'bulge' on his side has always been there--looking at old pictures, his body seems the same then as now. I guess I just panicked when I saw him acting strangely. He's now making a nest in the hospital tank--pretty funny...

Where can I read this article?

Fish can go for a very long time without eating. I would not worry about it, give the fish a couple weeks or so to get settled into its new home. Last fall we got a new lima shovelnose cat--just a little 4" thing--and we were trying for MONTHS to wean it off feeders. I gave in once and fed it...

Ok, done. I put One-Eye in a freshly-cleaned 20g tank with no decor except gravel and a makeshift 'bubble wall' in the middle of the tank that he can swim through. I took the carbon out of the filters and started on Maracyn and Maracyn II. If he does indeed have an internal infection, do you...

I bought both Maracyn and Maracyn II...the boxes say they can be used together at the same time. Is this a good idea or not?

My 6 1/2 year old oscar, One-Eye, has been tilted to one side for the past couple days. He was born with only one eye so he's naturally favored the side with the eye (right side) all his life. But for the past couple days he can't get upright. He tilts to the side so his right side (with the...