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If you need help with sick fish please include the following in your post. It will allow us to get you a solution much faster What are your water parameters? Temperature, PH, GH, KH, Ammonia, Nitrites, Nitrates
What is your maintenance and water change schedule?
Exactly what species of fish are they?
What are you feeding them? How often?
Can you post links to any photos?
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2010-09-10 06:00:41
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Are you saying that the water conditioner additive is not sufficient?
Once you stabilize the fish and the nitrate a fish that large in a tank that small, you'll probably have to change 50% of the water at least 2 or 3 times a week. He should probably be in a 75 gallon or larger.
Really -- wow --- that seems like a TON of work. How did he get so big -- my other cichlid has not grown like this one? He started off at about 2"
Are you sure that your ammonia is 0 - .5? It should be 0. /Any/ ammonia is bad and indicates you don't have enough biological filtration media.
How do we fix that -- I just installed the new filter but am leaving the old one in there till the new one gets established.
The other thing that I would do is put him on an antibiotic for external infections and add 1 tbs salt per 5 gallons. Pre-mix it in a separate container and add the total amount of salt slowly over a whole day. This helps to disturb the bacteria.
So the antibiotic I have been adding is insufficient? It doesn’t seem to have helped at all?
Also I am terrified to start adding salt
Where are you located? Do you have a fish shop and do you make house calls?:)
I appreciate your time -- we are very attached to "the CHADD"
Les
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