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Hi, I have a female electric yellow cichlid who is about 7cm long and he has an eye which looks like a bubble, the tank water conditions are all perfect, I would just like to know how to treat this or what could happen..I will attach photos Thanks

Hi guys I have a large male electric yellow cichlid with bloat and his not looking good. He has very swollen tummy and is just sitting at the bottom of the tank leaning on a rock. I was away for 5 days and when I got back noticed he was very bloated it has been 1 day now since I got back and...

I guys, I am making a divider for my tank out of an aluminium frame and aluminium fly screen. Is this ok to put in my tank? It is an african cichlid tank.

Hi guys, my tank was originally about 77 degrees. I then went to pick up my fish and the man there told me it should be 80 degrees. But I went to pick up some fish from another person today and he told me it needed to be 86 degrees to breed. Is this true? I am only just starting breeding and...

Hi guys, I have some electric yellows in which are pregnant and want to divide one section of my tank for the babies. I am not sure what I can and can't put into the tank. Would I be able to use just fibre glass fly screen mesh? If not could you please tell me what would. I do not want to put a...

Hi guys, I recently bought an electric yellow and put it in my 83 litre tank with 5 other cichlids (2 are smaller then the electric yellow) so he is about in the middle of the size range. I put him in and he was chased everywhere by the other cichlids. He has now got his fins all tucked away and...

Hi, I came home today to find one of my cichlids dead. All of my water has been tested an is perfect. Though yesterday I found some rocks that were ok for the tank, so I scrubbed them and got all the dirt off them but one of them had faint black spots. I was not sure if this was part of the rock...

At the moment I have a heep of live plants in my 21 gallon tank and it looks ugly. I would like to make it look a bit better an tale them out but I'm not sure if that will affect the water quality and I want to put something in there for them to hide in but Im not sure what can and can't go in a...

I have an 83 litre tank currently with 4 African cichlids. One of my cichlids are now pregnant and this is the first time I have had a pregnant fish and I have bought a breeding cage which can hang on the side of my tank. How big are the fry when they first come out? How big do they have to be...

Hi, one of my friends also have cichlids and when he moves his finger up and down the tank his cichlids follow him but when I try it they either swim away or they just stay there and don't follow, any suggestions?

Hi, my cichlids are not yet pregnant but I want to be ready for when they do. I have recently bought a box (guppy tank) which has holes in it and floats thought the holes are pretty small and I thought I would be able to use it for my future cichlid fry, would I be able to put it in the same...

Hi, I have 2 cichlids and 2 catfish in an 80L tank. I have recently put in a hollow log that I once used for lizards (though I cleaned it and scrubbed it over and over). After I put it in my bigger orange cichlid was chasing my smaller blue cichlid around in a viscous manner and the bigger...