foshizzle11
Aquarium Advice Freak
So, we had one of our largest cichlids (unknown type, looked like a peacock but all black), die from bloat this morning.
Once we found he was sick we put it in the quarantine tank and he didn't last 24 hours. But the rest of the tank is fine. We did a couple water changes to help prevent the disease from spreading.
Anyway, all the other cichlids, clown loaches, catfish and crazy fish are all good, so good that our Demasoni cichlids have breed and one of the fry survived!
We couldn't believe that it lived. We have a pleco, 4 clown loaches and 2 pictus cats and none of them ate all the eggs.
Anyway, my question for you is why did this one die? It was definitely Bloat, tell tale signs.
We think it was its diet. We have crazy fish so we feed live minnows and we believe that this large cichlid was probably eating a bunch of them as well. Should we stop feeding live minnows and find something else the crazyfish will eat??
Our concern is that the larger crazy fish have eaten some of the smaller cichlids and if we don't buy live minnows they will continue to do so.
What are your recommendations?
Once we found he was sick we put it in the quarantine tank and he didn't last 24 hours. But the rest of the tank is fine. We did a couple water changes to help prevent the disease from spreading.
Anyway, all the other cichlids, clown loaches, catfish and crazy fish are all good, so good that our Demasoni cichlids have breed and one of the fry survived!
We couldn't believe that it lived. We have a pleco, 4 clown loaches and 2 pictus cats and none of them ate all the eggs.
Anyway, my question for you is why did this one die? It was definitely Bloat, tell tale signs.
We think it was its diet. We have crazy fish so we feed live minnows and we believe that this large cichlid was probably eating a bunch of them as well. Should we stop feeding live minnows and find something else the crazyfish will eat??
Our concern is that the larger crazy fish have eaten some of the smaller cichlids and if we don't buy live minnows they will continue to do so.
What are your recommendations?