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[Cameron McVeigh]

Please fill out as much as possible below and give us a description of what is wrong with your fish.

Type of fish:red jewel cichlid
Symptoms: staying at top lie if it is gasping losing scales moderately bloted
Other tank mates: electrics frontsa debases green terror pleco phudotrophious debosi cat fish 
Tank size / capacity: 220l
Type of Food fed: spectrum cichlid 1ml pellet tand 3 mil floating pellet
Feeding frequency/amount: once a day 6 pinches of 1ml 2 pinches of 3ml and 3 alge tablets
Substrate: sand?
Type of filtration: canister filter nautlialas 2700
Frequency of filter cleans: 1 every 2-3 month
Frequency and % volume of water changes: every 3 -4 weeks and 30-50 %
Last water change: 4 weeks ago
PH: ]8.1
KH: don't know 
GH: don't know 
Nitrite: -
Nitrate:-
Ammonia: 0.25
Phosphate: cant remember 
Water temp:
Medications used recently to date: nothing out of the ordinary
Any recent changes..new fish/filters/power outages etc etc: nothing changed how ever have been restricting food amours added to tank by half to help stop water pollution. 

 

 

 

am wondering what this is please help me and also please can someone tell me if it contagious?? regards cameron

[Buccal]

You are going to get the same responses from everyone on here,,,, there should be no ammonia readings at all, as it's severely toxic.
Depending on fish sizes you may be overstocked,,, inadequate filtration or over feeding.
Very small quantities of disease exist in every aquarium,,, even the most sanitary perfectly set up aquariums.
The disease only takes hold of fish when the fish undergo any type of stress that reduces their immune systems.

I've noticed your tank size is small considering the fact the inhabitants you have chosen are not really a good combination for reasons that they get big and don't mix well temperament wise as well as inappropriate long term tank space.
You can get away with mixing fish that shouldn't be mixed in much larger tanks.

There a lot of things that need to be taken into consideration when determining reasons for disease,,, you should see most diseases like this a secondary issue that's caused by a primary issue.
You must determine the primary issue (the cause),,, because there's no point in treating if you don't resolve the primary issue.

[emmz-cichlids]

You only do water changes 3-4weeks... I never go more than one week without doing a water change

[Delapool]

Same here. About 30% every week.


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[Chopstick_mike]

Every week 40 to 50%
I have to cos all the poop from my pleco and I also enjoy it