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Dave Small Fry Posts: 5 Kudos: 6 Votes: 0 Registered: 02-Jun-2005	One of my tanks has a variety of african cichlids. I found one next to death, laying on the bottom. I almost flushed him, instead I put him into a different tank. He was breathing extremely heavy. The next mourning I got up, and he was fine. After a few days I put him back into the original tank, and the same thing happened, so again I took him out. I checked the water, the nitrite was a little high, but not that bad. All the other fish in that tank are fine. Why is this one fish start dieing when I put him in that tank? I also closely checked, he was not being beat on.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:36
bettachris Ultimate Fish Guru Posts: 3875 Kudos: 4173 Votes: 452 Registered: 13-Jun-2004	odd, but i would just keep it in the tank by himself where he is doing fine.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:36
houston Fish Guru You want what when? Posts: 2623 Kudos: 2462 Votes: 337 Registered: 29-Mar-2003	Sounds like the other guys might be picking on the poor little guy...keep him in a tank by hisself and he'll be fine...heck gives you a reason to get another big tank just to start stocking with himheidi EDIT: Welcome to FP Last edited by houston at 02-Jun-2005 23:22 "I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom." Thomas Carlyle
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:36
Dave Small Fry Posts: 5 Kudos: 6 Votes: 0 Registered: 02-Jun-2005	Just what I need, another tank. I started with a beta in a bowl, my sister-in-law bought for me. Then 2 1/2 gln, next was 10 gln on to a 29 gln. Now I have a 110 gln, with oscars and dempsey's, a 50-60 gln home made outdoor tank/pond under the covered patio where the african cichlids are, and a 10 gln I usually use for feeders but that's where I put the little guy who was having the problem. I promised myself I wouldn't buy a bigger tank until I buy a bigger house. But I've been known to break a promise or two before. Ha Ha, we'll see.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:36
Hooktor Fish Addict Posts: 646 Kudos: 651 Votes: 67 Registered: 22-Mar-2004	[font color="#C00000"]I think we all have the problem, we refer to it as MTS (mulitple tank sydrome) around here...[/font]
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:36
Dave Small Fry Posts: 5 Kudos: 6 Votes: 0 Registered: 02-Jun-2005	That sounds about right.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:36
stallion81 Big Fish Posts: 327 Kudos: 255 Votes: 143 Registered: 17-Jan-2004	Well Dave it sounds like your tank is still cycling or has gone into a mini cycle. NitrItes sould be 0 in a balanced/cycled tank. Now if it were nitrAtes that would be a diff story. Alot of African cichlids, while are known as being very "hardy", are not very tolerable to nitrIte or Ammonia spikes, which could be the case in your situation. If all other fish are fine ,I would bet it be about aggression and that your nitrIte readings were false. Test nitrite,nitrate, and ammonia again and see for sure. Sometimes you will find Africans that just DONT get along, not based on type, but instead on their personal individuality. I have lost many a cihlid to agrresion, They just get "scared to death" so to speak. Introducing all as juvies, IMO has a greater chance of success.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:36


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