My cockatoo cichlid is white and swollen above the mouth. Is it sick? What should I do?
A few days ago I noticed it was hiding and wasn't eating. The next day, it was eating again but I noticed a few red marks above the mouth. It's still eating and swimming around and seems happy. The red marks are gone, but instead it has this rather large swollen white area. It doesn't seem cotton like.
I've had it for 4 months. It was bought as a female, but has grown so large I'm beginning to think it's a male. I also have another male cockatoo cichlid, and a female agassizii. They chase each other once in a while, but nothing too bad, never any serious fights.
Other tank mates are: 20 Odessa barbs, 8 black ruby barbs, 5 pearl gouramis and 2 peacock gobies.
The tank is a 240 L juwel (65 gallon I think) with juwels standard internal filter.
The water parameters are:
Ammonia 0
Nitrite:0
Nitrate: 20
PH: 7,5
Temperature: 26 (Celsius)
I feed the fish flake food, frozen bloodworms and Cyclops, and a frozen vegetable mix for cichlids.
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A few days ago I noticed it was hiding and wasn't eating. The next day, it was eating again but I noticed a few red marks above the mouth. It's still eating and swimming around and seems happy. The red marks are gone, but instead it has this rather large swollen white area. It doesn't seem cotton like.
I've had it for 4 months. It was bought as a female, but has grown so large I'm beginning to think it's a male. I also have another male cockatoo cichlid, and a female agassizii. They chase each other once in a while, but nothing too bad, never any serious fights.
Other tank mates are: 20 Odessa barbs, 8 black ruby barbs, 5 pearl gouramis and 2 peacock gobies.
The tank is a 240 L juwel (65 gallon I think) with juwels standard internal filter.
The water parameters are:
Ammonia 0
Nitrite:0
Nitrate: 20
PH: 7,5
Temperature: 26 (Celsius)
I feed the fish flake food, frozen bloodworms and Cyclops, and a frozen vegetable mix for cichlids.
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