Blue's 80 Gallon Mbuna Tank
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myswtsins
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Wow, this came out great! The tank placement looks really sharp, much better then mine in front of my window! 
Ug it's been a rough week so far.
4 of the 5 mainganos died and the smaller acei up and died. I had them in a hospital tank and tried to treat the best i could but they still died. The horrible flesh rotting disease I had before seems to be back and hit these guys hard. I removed all of the fish showing the slightest symptoms to prevent the spreading I had last time. So far it seems to work pretty well. My dominant male msobo is still hanging on in the hospital tank. I feel like a horrible fish keeper.
This morning when I went to feed the main tank I noticed my male white top hara didn't eat and is hiding. I looked him over and besides a small tear in his anal fin I can find NOTHING wrong with him. He even still has his dominant colors. Whenever he is feeling stressed he looses his stripes and turns darker. Now he's still white blue with black stripes and doesn't have clamped fins. He's just hiding in his cave and not eating. I have no idea what could be wrong and it makes me sick to think I might loose him.
4 of the 5 mainganos died and the smaller acei up and died. I had them in a hospital tank and tried to treat the best i could but they still died. The horrible flesh rotting disease I had before seems to be back and hit these guys hard. I removed all of the fish showing the slightest symptoms to prevent the spreading I had last time. So far it seems to work pretty well. My dominant male msobo is still hanging on in the hospital tank. I feel like a horrible fish keeper.
This morning when I went to feed the main tank I noticed my male white top hara didn't eat and is hiding. I looked him over and besides a small tear in his anal fin I can find NOTHING wrong with him. He even still has his dominant colors. Whenever he is feeling stressed he looses his stripes and turns darker. Now he's still white blue with black stripes and doesn't have clamped fins. He's just hiding in his cave and not eating. I have no idea what could be wrong and it makes me sick to think I might loose him.
Got a better look at him and his mouth is all torn up. I can't tell if it's fuzzy or not. I don't know whether to treat for bacteria or fungus. The bacterial treatment I've been using in the hospital tank doesn't seem to be working.
Upon more research it looks like Columnaris. I'm gonna go pick up some meds that will hopefully help. Everything I read says I have bad water quality and lake of maintenance to blame. But i just tested my water and I do weekly water changes.
Parameters:
Ammonia:0
Nitrite:0
Nitrate: 10
Ph:8.2
That's considering that water change day is tomorrow.
Upon more research it looks like Columnaris. I'm gonna go pick up some meds that will hopefully help. Everything I read says I have bad water quality and lake of maintenance to blame. But i just tested my water and I do weekly water changes.
Parameters:
Ammonia:0
Nitrite:0
Nitrate: 10
Ph:8.2
That's considering that water change day is tomorrow.
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i know how you feel, some things are beyond our control sometimes. nature happens. i was planning on selling my halfbeaks, but nearly all of them died. so it opened up space, but i still fell bad and there went $20
A streak of bad luck is going on among the mbuna keepers members of this forum; I'm scared and crossing my fingers. Aye, Blue and all the good friends here: don't give up, OK?
myswtsins
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That stinks! Good luck to you blue! It is hard not knowing what is going on with our fishy friends. 
