New Fish After A Few Disasters!

[lisafosc]

And the story is......
One of my convicts had a lump which spread to many, I treated the main tank with meds to try to rid it of any free swimmers, and then put the convict in my hosp tank. The meds in my main set up really upset my Firemouths and they all died (4) over a space of a few days. My convict in the hosp tank seemed well in himself but the meds were not clearing the parasite, we thought that it might be some kind of bacterial infectional so I cleared the meds from the tank gave him a break from meds but added some melafix to soothe him and then treated him with meds to kill a bacterial infection, he died part way through this treatment!  .
I bought another tank (remember?) Once the tank had cycled I put my remaining fish into this tank, so that I could strip down my other tank, give it a good clean to rid it of any parasite/harmfull bacteria, and to make a repair to my filter housing and cycle this tank again. Unfortunatly the heater in my new tank (containing my remaining fish) malfunctioned, it really over heated the tank!!!!! I lost my two remaining Convicts, and my huge 10 yr old Pleco   
At least I managed to save my large Tin foil Barbs, My Red tailed Cat, Aquiden, and small leopard pleco  !!!!

I've managed to scrape myself of the floor at last and have bought a couple more fish.
I have a synodontis angelicus 3 inches, two baby tin foils, baby albino tin foil, two juv frontosa's one's 3 inches, the other 3.5 inches hope they are a pair! and a Geophagus surinamensis at about 2.5 inches ( really want to find a female now!), they are all fantastic fish, the frontosa's, the syno angelicus (choc brown with orange spots n squiggles) and the geophagus surinamensis are rare around here, never seen them on any one's list's or in any set ups well in Bristol uk at least lol 

[DanRad]

Wow!  That's an interesting week or so!  Do you have a guess as to the cause of the original original "lumP"?

[lisafosc]

Not really! Hadn't introduced any new fish, rocks or driftwood! Barb was helping me with advise and told me that parasites can be present in the tank with no signs or signals, and then suddenly attatch to a fish! Was pretty gutted as I had grown them out from being less than a centimeter in size, most of them any way! Just had a call from my lfs, they have just called to tell me they have got a pair of white convicts in for me. How nice is that 

how are you doin? Ur fish ok? xxx

[DanRad]

Yes, doing well.  Have some Escondidos big enough now for new homes, and new fry from my Chocolates.  Plus just picked up some interesting plecos.  Sorry to hear about your difficulties.

[lisafosc]

Just checked out ur vid! What fab fish, how long have you had them? It sucks when things go wrong, but soooooo fantastic the rest of the time, gotta take the rough with tha smooth, and just learn as much as poss to limit the rough 

[DanRad]

Thanks!  Got the parents about a year ago, at about the same size as some of the little ones now (they've even grown noticeably since that video).  Great fish!  Very owner-friendly.  Tough customers with other cichlids, but there's a gourami in the tank with them, and they're fine with it as long as it stays away from the new fry.  At the size these guys are now they don't even worry about the gourami.

[lisafosc]

Wow they have grown fast! What size are the parents now? What do you feed them?

[DanRad]

Parents are now about 5-6" TL.  I just feed a variety of cichlid pellets/sticks, plus occasional treats like FD krill, mealworms, the occasional unwary bug, etc.