AFRICAN CICHLID HELP! DYING?

i moved my african cichlids into there new tank yesterday since after i have had 8 die starting from the smallest and going up i have checked ph solidness everythign and it all seems good. they own plenty of room and the temp is at 79. i cant afford to lose them please help they shake and swim super fast and then die! and some enjoy there mouths open all the time! helppp please

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Ive kept cichlids for the second year and a half and when you say shake does it look like one is have a seizure? Because this can mean two things, you have a dominant mannish in the tank thats killing the other fish or he is displaying himself to mate. Could be the big ones massacre the smaller ones. Did you cycle your tank?

Put your water results up, ammonia, nitrate, nitrites. Tank details?

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" I checked ph hardness everything and it all seem good"

What is everything? What is your ammonia and nitrites at? Those are what you HAVE TO check for. It sounds like they are poisoned and it could be the ammonia level is too high. OR they are individual poisoned but the chlorine and junk that is in the hit water. Did you use the right amount of water conditioner? You say you get a new tank yesterday and so have you cycled it? We beckon it new tank syndrome.

Your fish are dying because you have put them within an uncycled tank. They are producing waste and that waste is not anyone broken down because you don't have a good bacterial filter built up yet.

Check your sea ammonia level and nitrite levels. If they are ever go above 1. you hold to do a 25% or more water change to bring the levels down. You are going to have need of to check the water everyday twice a day and change wet when ever needed.


Go do a Large water change now.

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the water wasn't right, not the right temp or near was a chemical in it? Maybe they're old?

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That cos lack of oxygen. Go buy mass oxygen bubble. Happen to me long time ago. I lost like 5 cichlids in 1 night. Nxt morning i blot to nearest pet and buy similar to pump which is enough for 500 gallon easy. 2 minutes later cichlids come back to life. So you better hurry get oxygen for cichlids. Get plenty of oxygen.

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Answers:    I see alot of shots within the dark here because there isn't enough information. Ok you said spanking new tank, so it's an easy assumption your tank isn't cycled, but whether this is just one day in the cistern, this is not ammonia nor nitrite, not at 1 day. It takes a few days to build up levels that would do spoil, unless this tank is something way way too small which I doubt.

I also doubt O2 level being too low is the issue either. This takes time to grounds an issue.

Ok PH is only one thing of a few things you need to look at, but you read out it's good, and don't mention the readings. It would be helpful whether you listed the actual readings of your PH, GH and KH. The temp shouldn't be an issue except for one entity. Acclimation time. What is your acclimation procedure?

While I'll talk about acclimation, it's also worth while to mention, especially since you right to be heard African cichlids, that an uncycled tank, and if your tank is really ok as you vote, you're going to have a big big problem about next week or so. Anyways, acclimation sagacious, I have found using a rather long acclimation from the bag to the reservoir is very helpful.

Consider this: Your PH scale is measured logarithmically. It technique that every tenth of a point, is a full measure of difference. Translated yet again, say a reading of 7.5 is your PH reading. A reading of 7.7 contained by the tank or bag water the fish are contained by, is 2 times more alkaline then the tank water, or even better, the container water is 2 times more acidic then the hose they just came from. Without knowing what the readings of the pack water is, you run a high risk of shock when transferring them.

I generally nick the bag and float it in the tank, while count a 1/4 cup of tank water to the bag every 15 to 20 minutes, running this process for about an hour to hour and half. This allows a very gradual acclimation from sack to tank. Running things too fast, introduces the possiblity of shock which I think is the defence here.

The cycle comes into play because if you have your tank truly set up as you said, for African level, your ammonia in an uncycled tank is going to be extremely toxic at the higher PH level then lower. This is why it's critical when doing an African tank, you either hold that tank already cycled, or you use high amounts of a product called Prime. Prime will de-chlorinate for you at a rate of 1 capful per 50 gallons, and ionize adjectives ammonia and nitrite produced in the tank, keeping the toxicity away from your fish, but allowing your needed microbes to use it as a fuel source. If your tank is uncycled, and you don't use Prime, we'll see you back again next week asking why they adjectives died.

In the mean time, find out what species you have. There are still 1000's yet of Africans and you can't merely put them all togeather because they are all Africans. That means within are many bodies of water in Africa they could come from, adjectives having yet slightly different water chemistry, as ably as aggression levels.

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in that can be many reasons, water have to be bad, otherwise everything else like you said is ok.

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Have you checked the ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate level in the new tank?
What you articulate is happening is consistent with the fish being poisoned.

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