Jmedic25
Aquarium Advice FINatic
Ok I have a new but cycled malawi tank. My stock level was 10 juvi Demosoni, 3 juvi Red Zebras, 6 juvi yellow labs, 2 juvi albino zebras. and a 10 in common pleco. The substrate is black diamond sand. The decor is plastic plants, and rocks that were sterilized before adding them. The water perms are always perfect. I have a sump with bio balls, and emperor 400 HOB. The water turn is 12 times an hour. I use seachem cichlid buffer and thier salt only as directed. The only other thing that goes in that tank is prime. I do a 10% WC per week. Nitrates lower than 10 always..Ammonia undetectable, The only thing I feed them is NLS and hang a cucumber(once a week) for the pleco that the cichlids pick at a little. Temp is between 78-80. I also fast them every Wednesday. So far in the past 3 weeks ive lost 2 Dems, 1 zebra, and another Dem started showing signs of bloat yesterday. What the heck am I missing, and what the heck should I do???
Justin
Justin