Lots of problems with my African Cichlids!!!?
Question by amber: Lots of problems with my African Cichlids!!!?
I’ve had a fish tank 4 quite some time now and i know im doing somethings terrible wrong. i have a jack dempsey, 2 lemon cichlids, and 2 electric blues. my fish never seem to be active and most just sit at the bottom or in the corner. only 1 of them has much color and none of them seem to ever eat more than a tiny bit that, it seems like, there willing to “risk their lives” (quickly darting to the top and back) to get. I am aware that we don’t change the water and filter stuff enough, don’t have like ANY hiding things (rocks n stuff), and the water chemistry is, as i found out yesterday, WAY off!!! apparently im retarded and thought everything was going great and there were just “weird fish” but i finally decided to look up the correct habitat and discovered that im murdering them…DX
I want to ask –
How often to clean the tank, make water changes, and test water?
How to prepare healthy water for them?
What foods should i be feeding them in the morning and night?
How do i set up the rocks?
and how do i gradually change them into a healthy environment without stress?
THERE AFRICAN CICHLIDS
Best answer:
Answer by Lynne
those are south american
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Your best bet is to contact the ACA (American Cichlid Association). Do an online search for ACA.
1. you should have researched this before you got the fish!!!
2. well here are the answers you your questions, hope they help!
-Clean and do water changes 1-2 times weekly, around 30%, and test the water weekly
-Use Seachem™ Prime® (de-chlorinator), follow directions for water try using 50% R/O water (and 50% dechlorinated tap) and use (unsure of name, but there are many) to add trace elements to the water, that reverse osmosis removes, still dechlorinate the r/o!!
-i feed mine new life spectrum cichlid formula, and san francisco bay brand freeze dried brine shrimp, and also frozen bloodworms, time doesn’t matter by food type, but spread feeding out 2-3 times daily and feed only what they will/consume in 2 minutes
-set up the rocks by piling slate rocks to make caves for them to hide in if you are lazy, buy Cichlid Stones™ and stack them up
-i’d say to do ahead and do the right stuff i mentioned above to quickly to make. you don’t have to put the rocks in quite yet wait until you see improvement in health and the go ahead with rocks
-P.S. make sure the temperature is 75º to 80º
-P.S.S. Jack Dempsey Cichlids are South American, not African.
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