I have a lot of questions:
1. In my 55 gallon cichlid tank, I had a male and female p.demasoni. Just yesterday I found the female with all her fins torn up, her scales torn and one of her eyes appears to have a scar, so I removed the male and put him in my convict tank. The female seems all right, and like she is going to live. But, I was wondering what I should do to ensure that she heals fully without any infections? Right now she is in the 55 gallon tank with about 6 or 7+ yellow lab fry and 2 or 3+ of her own fry. I was amazed that there were fry in there when I moved the rocks and plants. I was surprised how many were hiding in such small cracks and spaces in the rocks, there are a bunch of them. Horray for me.
2. I have a tank between 55 and 60 gallons and it has my senegal bichir and 3 female convicts, 2 giant danios that were bothering the fish in my fathers community tank, he expected the convicts to kill them in about 3 days, but instead it killed a feeder goldfish and are both now harassing the other fish in the tank with their annoying fast nonstop swimming and aggressive bumping, and the male p.demasoni. The p.demasoni doesn't push around the convicts (and who would) or the other fish, but now after about 6 months the convicts are starting to harass my poor senegal bichir. One of them permenantly ran him out of his cave for their territory and the others are taking up residence in all the other hide outs. So my poor bichir is left out in the open and feels uncomfortable. What should I do?
3. Also, to add onto that for some reason all of the fish are trying to hide. They hide in all the hiding spots and only come out to fight off a fish that comes on its turf, but that isn't often. They used to come out and eat the second they would see me lift the lid and wouldn't even give me a chance to put the food in the water, but would jump to catch the food. I thought that my water could be the cause of it, but my pH, nitrates, nitrites and ammonia are under control. So what is the cause of this. Should I change there diet? What should I feed them if that is the case?
4. Lastly, I have a 25 gallon tank with 1 redtail shark and 3 black skirt tetras. The skirts are sometimes harassed by the shark but not often, cause I have not seen my shark out of his cave for over a month now. However, what worries me is that since I got him I have never seen him eat anything, all I do is put in flake food and some freezedried brine shrimp cubes in the tank for the tetras and that is it and one time I saw him come out when he saw the food, and it seemed like he wanted the food but he couldn't or wouldn't eat it. What should I do? What should I feed him? Also, what worries me is that at times I am able to only see him tail poking out of his cave when he sleeps and it always looks very pale almost a translucent orange and I heard that its tail changes color depending on how well it feels, but I haven't seen his tail the bright red it was for a really long time. So what should I do? It is not the water cause I tested it so what else could it be?
I know that I asked a lot of questions, but please help me. Thank you all for your help and posts in advanced, hopefully all of my fish will feel a lot better soon.
1. In my 55 gallon cichlid tank, I had a male and female p.demasoni. Just yesterday I found the female with all her fins torn up, her scales torn and one of her eyes appears to have a scar, so I removed the male and put him in my convict tank. The female seems all right, and like she is going to live. But, I was wondering what I should do to ensure that she heals fully without any infections? Right now she is in the 55 gallon tank with about 6 or 7+ yellow lab fry and 2 or 3+ of her own fry. I was amazed that there were fry in there when I moved the rocks and plants. I was surprised how many were hiding in such small cracks and spaces in the rocks, there are a bunch of them. Horray for me.
2. I have a tank between 55 and 60 gallons and it has my senegal bichir and 3 female convicts, 2 giant danios that were bothering the fish in my fathers community tank, he expected the convicts to kill them in about 3 days, but instead it killed a feeder goldfish and are both now harassing the other fish in the tank with their annoying fast nonstop swimming and aggressive bumping, and the male p.demasoni. The p.demasoni doesn't push around the convicts (and who would) or the other fish, but now after about 6 months the convicts are starting to harass my poor senegal bichir. One of them permenantly ran him out of his cave for their territory and the others are taking up residence in all the other hide outs. So my poor bichir is left out in the open and feels uncomfortable. What should I do?
3. Also, to add onto that for some reason all of the fish are trying to hide. They hide in all the hiding spots and only come out to fight off a fish that comes on its turf, but that isn't often. They used to come out and eat the second they would see me lift the lid and wouldn't even give me a chance to put the food in the water, but would jump to catch the food. I thought that my water could be the cause of it, but my pH, nitrates, nitrites and ammonia are under control. So what is the cause of this. Should I change there diet? What should I feed them if that is the case?
4. Lastly, I have a 25 gallon tank with 1 redtail shark and 3 black skirt tetras. The skirts are sometimes harassed by the shark but not often, cause I have not seen my shark out of his cave for over a month now. However, what worries me is that since I got him I have never seen him eat anything, all I do is put in flake food and some freezedried brine shrimp cubes in the tank for the tetras and that is it and one time I saw him come out when he saw the food, and it seemed like he wanted the food but he couldn't or wouldn't eat it. What should I do? What should I feed him? Also, what worries me is that at times I am able to only see him tail poking out of his cave when he sleeps and it always looks very pale almost a translucent orange and I heard that its tail changes color depending on how well it feels, but I haven't seen his tail the bright red it was for a really long time. So what should I do? It is not the water cause I tested it so what else could it be?
I know that I asked a lot of questions, but please help me. Thank you all for your help and posts in advanced, hopefully all of my fish will feel a lot better soon.