Sick Africans! Help! :(

[noobWITHaPROBLEM]

Hey,
My name is Amanda, I have a 55 gallon mixed African Cichlid tank.
Water temp 80
ammonia 0
nitrite 0
nitrate 20ppm
ph 8.0

I just noticed while doing a water change that my fish are all flashing and breathing heavy. Also my male yellow lab has tiny red pin sized spots on his left side just above his anal fin. I tried to get a picture but he is hiding so it wont be possible right now. maybe later. he is eating normally though.. as are all of the fish and he is the only one hiding everyone else is swimming around flashing and breathing heavy.

Right away I cleaned my filters and treated for ick.
Treating with quick cure
55 drops / one drop per gallon.

I am very worried because my female lab has been holding for about a week and a half now and I dont want the babies to die. she is flashing but no spots or sores and she is swimming around as normally as a holding female does...

Any thoughts??

Also I cant move anyone to another tank as I have no other tank and have no room for another tank seeing as how I am running 5 right now.

Inhabitants -
2 Yellow lab's breeding pair 3.5 inches
2 kingzisei 1 m 1 ? 3.5 inches
2 sulferheads 2 inches genders unknown
2 Johanni 1 m 2.5 - 3 inches 1 gender unknown 1.5 - 2 inches
2 african thickskin 1 m 1 f 3 - 3.5 inches
2 kribensis 1 m 2 inches 1 f 1 inch
1 Orange blotch peacock gender unknown 2.5 - 3 inches
1 Red top zebra gender unknown 2.5 - 3 inches
1 albino red top zebra gender unknown 2.5 - 3 inches
1 brichardi gender unknown 2 inches
1 red empress male 3.5 - 4 inches
1 clown pleco
1 common pleco


Tank -
55 gallon
48" long 12" wide and i think 18" inches or 16" tall
tons of rocks
some lace java fern and fake plants
small piece of wood
30 lbs of aragonite
some sea shells

running 2 hob filters
one aqua clear 70
one aqua tech 30 - 60

heater dont know how many watts but good for a 70 gallon tank "theo hydor" brand.


I am well aware that I am overstocked but i do 50% water changes every week and am upgrading to a 120 gallon in two months.

Also I'm sorry but I dont know the scientific names for any of my fish other than my Labidochromis's

 

[didz04]

Hi do you have any kids that may have put something in the tank or even an elder?

I'm asking this as no joke my granded had placed some syrup in to the tank and next day I noticed it was all gooey on the sides and cloudy looking. All my cichlids were breathing deeply and near the surface. Funnily my female kenyi had babies and I was waiting for them to be fully developed but after this incident I found 10+ babies also swimming at the surface breathing deeply.

I had to place them in a bucket with clean water while I cleaned the tank but I lost quite a few cichlids.

It could be an oxygen issue so add a bubble pump or even better a small powerhead to circulate the water.

HTH

 

[noobWITHaPROBLEM]

Hi do you have any kids that may have put something in the tank or even an elder?

I'm asking this as no joke my granded had placed some syrup in to the tank and next day I noticed it was all gooey on the sides and cloudy looking. All my cichlids were breathing deeply and near the surface. Funnily my female kenyi had babies and I was waiting for them to be fully developed but after this incident I found 10+ babies also swimming at the surface breathing deeply.

I had to place them in a bucket with clean water while I cleaned the tank but I lost quite a few cichlids.

It could be an oxygen issue so add a bubble pump or even better a small powerhead to circulate the water.

HTH

thanks so much for the reply I found him today and he is looking a lot better now just a little body slime so i am adding a little salt and doing another water change.
Someone must have kicked his little yellow butt, probably the kingsizei.... what a jerk that fish is lol