OMG My fish is gone all weird!!!!

[Blueiz]

Ich isn't white and cottony..its white and grainy like salt. Souns like you are doing the right thing treating for fungus..would really help if you could figure out why it has the fungus tho..

Blue

 

[kiz84]

It definitely wasn't ich... more a fungus like cotton mouth or something. Anyway, he died yesterday afternoon so I'm really sad. He had such a cool personality!

 

[legendaryfrog]

no. im going to make the assumption this is less then a 100g tank. prolly around a 55g.


oscars are not that aggressive for their size. jaguars on the other hand, are viscious.

for each large cichlid you should have about 55g's of water alone.

for the 4 jags and 2 oscars, i would say you need 300g tank MINIMUM. the convicts will prolly get eater by the jags but they make good target fish for the mean time while they are the same size

You are not making an assumption here. You are making a judgment! That's not the kind of answer (or attitude) you treat a person with after their first post. For all you know their tank could be bigger than your house. They need help for crying out loud.

well......his judgement was correct.

The guy he got the fish from is a total insensitive idiot. Its inhumane to put 4 jags 2 oscars and 2 convicits in the same tank, let alone a 15 gallon.

My only advice for you it to return the fish to a GOOD LFS.

 

[kiz84]

Well, its all sorted now anyway. The white ones weren't oscars they were albino convicts. I've separated a breeding pair of convicts into their own 2ft tank (just what I needed!! a HEAP of babies!!!) for now & the jags are in a 4 foot tank by themselves. All round - much happier fish. I won't be taking them to the store, I'm sure I can manage them. It was only the albinos I was having the trouble with. Thanks for all the advice

 

[Dwarf Puffers]

just out of curiosity (and to prove some judgemental idiots here (hopefully) a lesson), how big is the tank?


no, really?

TELL ME ALL READY!!!

omg forget it... if you wont tell me, i might aswell--- SAY IT!!


please?

 

[kiz84]

The tank the jags are in now is a lovely big tank - 51"x30"x26" (about 170gal) - by themselves. I believe this is still too small for 4 jags but they are MUCH happier now though so that tank should do them for awhile while they are still quite small.

The convicts are still in the 15gal tank but I'm not moving them yet as they have HEAPS of babies now. They are happy enough in there by themselves for the time being.

SOooo.... I hope that answered your questions in reasonable amount of time! LOL