Hi out there,
I set up my 110 cichlid tank late last year with about 40 small ones.
Things have been going great for 4 months. Everybody's eating, pooping well, growing. Most everyone was about 1.5" when they went in, now they're all 2.5-3.5" When I feed them it's a frenzy.
I added a 2nd small pleco recently and he ended up either dying or getting killed, but there was only a head and a backbone found in the morning. I did a 30% water change and added some cichlid salt.
Next day the fish seemed very listless. Feeding time was met with only a few coming up to the surface. Everyone else seem uninterested. Two parrot fish were at strange angles in the plastic plants but breathing fine and swam away when approached closely.
This morning was the same. Nearly all the fish seem lazy. No white spots that I see. Tank temp is 81. Is my tank "crashing" as I've heard it described? I'll do water tests when I get home from work, but what advice is there for what to do if that all comes back clean?
Todd
I set up my 110 cichlid tank late last year with about 40 small ones.
Things have been going great for 4 months. Everybody's eating, pooping well, growing. Most everyone was about 1.5" when they went in, now they're all 2.5-3.5" When I feed them it's a frenzy.
I added a 2nd small pleco recently and he ended up either dying or getting killed, but there was only a head and a backbone found in the morning. I did a 30% water change and added some cichlid salt.
Next day the fish seemed very listless. Feeding time was met with only a few coming up to the surface. Everyone else seem uninterested. Two parrot fish were at strange angles in the plastic plants but breathing fine and swam away when approached closely.
This morning was the same. Nearly all the fish seem lazy. No white spots that I see. Tank temp is 81. Is my tank "crashing" as I've heard it described? I'll do water tests when I get home from work, but what advice is there for what to do if that all comes back clean?
Todd
