Cichlid Care

My African Cichlid is Dying, Please help?

pianogurl326 wants to know: I believe it got a disease from a gold fish he ate about 3 weeks ago. Ever since then, he’s had violent twitching spasms. He’s been lying on the bottom for 3 days now and won’t eat, I fear he doesn’t have much time left. No exterior disease signs, perfect [...]

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Should you use aquarium salt with african cichlids?

lasvegasnights21 asked: Is it ok to add some aquarium salt to an African cichlid tank? I have about 25 1″-1.5″ African cichlids! (red zebra, kenyi, auratus,lions cove, zebra OB)! They are doing fine, my pet store has salt in their cichlid aquarium, and said it was okay to put in your aquarium, to help eliminate [...]

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