Malawi Mayhem

[RD]

Just as a little add on to this thread regarding pellet food, and bloat .......

I thought I'd post a pic sent to me a few weeks ago from a customer in Sweden. His tropheus tank was going through some 'problems' due to the shrimpmix he was using (fouling the water) and he was hoping a quality pellet feed would solve this issue. The day the NLS arrived he already had one fish bloating up (it died 2 days later) and the rest of his fish had quit eating. (they were all still on shrimpmix at this point)

He was panicking BIG time as he had a large colony of wild caught Trpheus moorii Kambwimba "Red Rainbows", so he switched their diet over to 100% NLS pellets the day the food arrived. (with no transition to the new food!) No other fish became ill, and all but 2 fish from this large wild colony took to the pellets within 2-3 days.

Although these fish look much better without a flash (as Stefan used in this photo) you can see they look plenty healthy after several weeks on their new diet.





FYI - I also own a group of Tropheus moorii Kambwimba, and have been feeding them New Life Spectrum pellets exclusively, 4 times a day, for approx 90 days straight now. (since the day I brought them home)

No bloat, no problem, just very healthy & colorful fish.

Of all the species of cichlids out there, Tropheus are by far the most notorious for getting bloat, so hopefully this will put this 'pellet causing bloat' nonsense to rest once & for all.
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[Malawiblue]

I have a Placidochromis milomo (Super VC 10) female which I bought in November. Originally in my 100 gallon she was being harassed a lot by a male milomo and was not eating at all.

I separated her in early December and now she lives in a 33 gallon with a pair of Aulonocara mamelela. I treated her for about 2 weeks with Seachem's metro but ran out just as she was beginning to look at food again and so she reverted back to ignoring food.

It is now January and she still never eats (I don't know how she has not starved) and I am treating her again with Seachem's Aquazole (Active ingredient 50% Metro, non active 50% Potassium sulfate) because they did not have any straight metro. And I'm getting close to running out again

So I guess I just gotta keep up waterchanges and dosages? Any additional info would be helpful. Although I'm sure its all been discussed already in this thread.

Thanks for any help

[RD]

Hey Steve, sorry to hear that your female is still refusing to eat. My advice, at this point I would dose her with Clout in a qt tank. Clout is harsh stuff, but at this point I wouldn't waste my time with Met.
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[Malawiblue]

Ok

[kodak]

If in doubt "CLOUT IT OUT!"
Great stuff IMO