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Ah that's sad he must be feeling the fish version of how I feel! We have done a water change in the last couple of days, and I will certainly ensure that his fav food goes his way. Thank you for your help, we will watch him closely, I couldnt bear for anything to happen to him after we lost...

Thanks. I now have another prob, perhaps someone may be able to help. My tank has one other cichlid, a Geophagus Jurapari, Troy. We have had him for 3 years, he was smaller than Xavier when he went in the tank and always the less dominant of the two, but he has been with Xavier since baby...

Hi All Just wanted to let everyone know what happened with my Xavier. We took him to the vets on Saturday, who told us that he had rather a lot of canerous tumours and that the best thing for him was to let him go. It is and was very sad - the vet put him to sleep. He was very peaceful, no...

Thank you all for your comments andthoughts I will ring vet tomorrow but they dont seem very accommodating or available or many, I cant believe that there are so few vets for fish. We have the choice of one 1 hour 10 mins away who seems to know what they are doing, one that will have a go...

Have thought about euthanasia =but really not sure how, read so many things about all the methods and I cant bear the thought, if it goes towards that way I hope he goes without aid!! We have been told clove oil is best!?! He is beautiful - and he has loads of personality and watches you and...

Hi The tank was 300 litres, but we have just moved him to a 25 litre tank to be on his own as he was looking very unhappy. The cysts have happened very quick, first one about 4 weeks ago and now they are a cluster on his fin and he is laying on the other side. Up until he wasnt well he was...

hi he is an acarichthys heckelii about 4 years old. The cysts look like lymphocystic and started to develop a few days before he started to loose bouyancy. We have added the medicine etc, but he just has got worse, the fish shop we go to doesnt know what is wrong they said to keep treating...

My cichlid has been unwell for some weeks now. We thought he was going the right way as he has been eating and toileting ok, and his colur was high. He had gradually lost his bouyancy over a period of weeks, and developed a cyst now cysts on one of his pectoral fins. He spent a few weeks...

Thanks for that - hoping he pulls through

My chiclid is unwell can some body help. I have a chiclid who is about 3 years old, he last week started to swim strange with his bottom down as if heavy, the aquatic shop said he maybe constipated and to give him lots of red blod worm, we did this and also put some medicine in the tank as...

Thanks for your reply. Do you know what I can give him - should he be constipated. Someone said peas? Can they be constipated for a week and find it hard to swim?

My chiclid is unwell can some body help. I have an Acarichthys Heckelii who is about 3 years old, he last week started to swim strange with his bottom down as if heavy, the aquatic shop said he maybe constipated and to give him lots of red blod worm, we did this and also put some medicine in the...