Jasmine07

Hi there my blood parrot turned almost completely white the other day, and i'm wondering if i should worry or not. i know they are apt to color changes but this was sudden and his entire color is washed out. he used to be fairly bright ornge, and now he looks like a pink convict color. and his one gill may be a little red. i keep my fish at my moms house cause thts where the 100gal tank is, and i recently moved in with my boyfriend. i noticed one time i was over there that he was hiding behind an ornament and kinda sitting on the bottom a lot. which is something he's never done before. my mom wanted to check on him she she tipped the ornament over and she thinks se saw a bunch of little bugs on the ornament when she tipped it over, and she said it seemed like the blood parrot ate them all when she did this. i do have a bunch of fry convicts in this tank as well, but their fairly big now, and there's no way the mom and dad convicts would let ther babies get that close to another fish. becase i didn't see this myself i'm not sure if she;s just crazy or if i should be worried. other than that the fish is acting fine. he still eats, his find and scales look fine, and he does still swim around fine. he just always returns to that spot. any suggestions on what i should do? i would put him in a sick tank if i had a free one. right now one of my sick tanks has 2 small oscars in it becuase of fin rot, and i lent my other one to my byfriends mom cause her oscar has hole-in-the head. i do have a rubbermaid container i could use if i had to i guess.. and while here i'll ask another question. i have an albino oscar and a black oscar. a few months ago, thy both developed fin rot, so i put them in a sick tank and treated them with melafix. they both cleared up and i did a water chnge on my big tank. when i put them back in however they both developed fin rot again. so i put them back in the sick tank and i made sure they were completely healed before i put them back in the big tank again. i do regular water changes, and i have tested my ammonia and nitrate levels and their fine. i transferred the oscars back into the big tank and within 5 hours their fins were deteriorating again. their always fine in the sick tank but when i try to ut them back they develop fin rot immediatly again. i'm almost hinking of selling them becuase i can no seem to house them properly. i have a blood parrot, 2 convicts, and a jack dempsey in my 100gal, and their all fine. (except for the blood parrot which jus happened) this oscar problem has been going on for a fw months now. if you took the time to read this all i thank you for your time. any suggestions would really help

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The other fish in the tank eat the fry before the get very big, so i'm not really looking to get rid of the fry. I am however looking to get rid of the convicts that are about 3"-6". I have the normal dark striped colored ones, and pink color ones. Any takers?

What if i keep 4 females instead?

I have: 15 convicts 2 jack dempseys 2 oscars (1 albino, 1 black) 1 Blood Parrot 1 Jewel Cichlid 1 Venustus(giraffe) cichlid The last two are african cichlids, but i'd thought i'd add them since that include all my fish.

there are also a lot of hiding places. The tank was an early chrismas gift and it came with 15 convicts. I am only planning on keeping 4 of them, but i like them and i'm having a hard timegetting rid of them. but i do need to get rid of them before all the fish grow to adult size or their won't be enough room.

Thanks for all the replies! I have a 100gal tank, right now most of the fish are no bigger than 4-5" with one jack dempsey being close to 7" I feed them freeze dried brine shrimp along with flakes and pellets, and they all seem to be healthy with nice bright colors. My convicts have had babies - what a big suprise lol. And even with them defending their babies the tank is pretty peaceful. I am prepared to make changes if any of their attitudes change towards one another. I keep the water at 26C and so far so good.

Hi there, Is it a big no-no to have american and african cichlids together in a tank? I have a jewel cichlid, and a venustus cichlid in with convicts, oscars, jack dempseys, and a blood parrot. And they all get along fine. But I'm wondering, is this something that is frowned upon? or if their all getting along is it okay?

Hello, my nimbochromis venustus got stuck between a porous rock and the side of the aquarium glass last night, and now the one side of him is pretty scratched up. will his scales grow back to what they were before? I moved the rock around so he won't get stuck again.