Type of fish: clown loaches and various Malawi cichlids and peacoks
Symptoms: black smudgy spots appearing on their body
Other tank mates:
Tank size / capacity: 680 litres
Type of Food fed: algae pellets , floating and sinking cichlid pellets
Feeding frequency/amount: feed daily only what they can eat in a minute or two
Substrate: sand
Type of filtration: 2 ext canister filters
Frequency of filter cleans: rotated 1 per fortnight
Frequency and % volume of water changes: weekly 25%
Last water change: 4 days ago
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Water temp: 26 degrees
Medications used recently to date: none
Any recent changes..new fish/filters/power outages etc etc: filter is about a month or so old and just added 2 princess cichlids one of which now has a black spot too
its really weird ive noticed a lot of my fish are getting these smudge ink looking black spots and they aren't small spots either well some are lol
apart from the spots they are fine they are all acting normal eating and breeding as usual
none of them are flicking around or look sick though I do have one red jewel that has a gill sticking out looking kinda injured but she did that a few weeks ago
and is perfectly fine except for looking kinda deformed
any advice would be greatly appreciated ive googled till my fingers hurt but cant find an answer
the most affected are the loaches and they didn't have the spots when they were in the big 1300 ltre tank
cheers peeps
Edited by ellie, 06 October 2017 - 09:30 PM.