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Glenstorm

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Got a sick psuedotropheus and I am looking for some help with diagnosis. The most visible sign is the fins are all tattered. The narrow section of body between the tail and the rest of the fish seems to have lost all color also. Finally there seem to be white splotches on one side of the body. The fish having trouble swimming and controlling it's orientation. I think this one's a goner but I would like to limit my losses.

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Hmm, I really don't want to even attempt to make a diagnosis without out seeing the fish. Try going here, lots of disease diagnosis help, http://fishyfarmacy.com
 
For that particular fish, that's not great, but bloat isn't contagious...changing the diet to one that is more vegetation-based may help prevent this. What are you feeding?
 
I just switched to tetra cichlid flakes from Wardley flakes. The tetra flakes were all my LFS had for cichlids. They also had Wardley pellets so I have been experimenting with them also.
 
I think that you'd need something with more vegetarian content...those are designed for fish with larger portions of meat byproduct necessary for survival.
 
Hey, Glenstorm, after mulling over your problem, I realize that my advice is a little shy of what it needs to be. I would like to know what fish are in that tank so that I may correctly tell you the diet for the entire tank (and whether or not that should be split up due to vastly different dietary concerns).
 
Heh,
I actually have already covered this ground in a previous post...

You can get a better idea of my situation there. The gist of my setup is a 75G with:

3 Psuedotropheus, 1 Labidochromis, & 1 Nimbochromis, and 6 Danios as dithers (Unfortunately I can't afford to fill the tank with cichlids).
 
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