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sounds like bloat!! sorry very hard to treat and when it gets to that point most fish never recover and die Ive lost 2 fish to bloat and it sucks!! usually cause by bad diet or over feeding....

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AQUARIUM salt is used to help prevent ich not a treatment :unsure: DO NOT USE TABLE SALT :no: iodized salt is no good for fish :X Ich should be treated with the right meds and for the full length of treatment so you kill it all!!! ich hides very well so even if fish dont show anymore signs...

you can youtube the lake malawi there is no drift wood at all!! rock is natural for them and if that is the only hiding spot, that is probably the problem they are very teritorial and they all need there own spot for comfort or they will get stressed which sounds like that might be it because...

there are more than you can count as far as different types of cichlids and man keep making more types as they cross breed them.. as far as pleco or algea eaters most african cichlids are only algea eaters and can get bloated from eating to much protien and die!!! :no: so you need to somthing...

Ive used that befor and it says to use 2x per 10 gallon FIRST DAY and 1x per gallon second day and so on you dont do a water change until you treat for one week and then do a water change make sure u have alot of airation in the tank because that med reduces oxygen in the water but that stuff is...

hey there :hyper: well i see you have a 20 gal tank well personally its kind of small for cichlids for 1 they are very teritorial so they need space,2 they do like to swimm,and they need rocks alot of them which takes away from the amount of water in the tank!! :sad: its not bad to have 20 gal...

hey there!! :shout: well first malawi cichlids very beautiful fish good choice but you should put more than 6 as they are very aggresive and the more the better to reduce stress just dont crowed the tank to much!! they WILL dig up your plants bad choice for plants, :no: they may not eat them...

Hey well most likely this is gonna just be the start for u as fare as tanks so i would start with an easy community tank set up with hearty fish so u can get used to caring for them! I have african cichlids and well some are strong fish most ARE very sensittive and will die if not well taken...

im sorry i ment nitrate is 5 ppm not ammonia... ammonia is zer0 thats why i thinks its paracites. 5ppm in ammonia would kill most any fish fast. all levels at zer0 except nitrates

1 9inch pleco 1 chocolate pleco 1 black calvus 1 electric blue 1 demasoni 1 tropheus bemba 1 frontosa burundi 2 sunshine gold 1 strawberry albino 2 star sapphire 1 diamond jewel 1 red peacock 2 zebra obliquidens 1 trewavasae (zimawe) 1 perlmutt 1 venustus 3 clown loaches AND MORE TO COME!!!

my ammonia is only 5.0 ppm thats almost nothing

Hello, I need some advice.... I have a 135 gallon african cichlid tank and my fish are flashing (rubbing on rocks) and i think I have parasites in my tank but not sure which way to treat with the least amount of stress to the fish.. I know it is normal for some flashing but theres alot going on...