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One of my Orange Maylandia estherae, or Red Zebra has passed away. When I woke up this morning I found it stuck next to the glass and the filter intake, mouth wide open, facing upwards.

I have it in the fridge and can take a picture if anyone needs it. The little one has some white bloches all over it's body now, it's gills are pretty red and it's belly seems a little swollen now (though it never had a swollen belly before.)

I'm about to do a water change on the tank and probably put in some Melafix till I know what's wrong.

PS these cichlids have never had a single problem since they've been around back in like last Dec.

Thanks!

[span class="edited"][Edited by AngelZoo 2004-08-09 12:29][/span]

That fish will probably not survive either...

Do your water tests to see if anything has changed before dosing anything.

--garyroland.

Here is a picture of the deceased fish.

http://angel.pwnd.org/fish/redzebrafemale0809041.jpg

As I said, I carried out the water change 30%. Checked the filter medial, checked the water parameters and everything has turned out ok. All the other fish still look and act the same. I can't understand it. I also did dose with melafix.