hello everybody! I was hoping somebody could help me diagnose my fish. just noticed it last night and pulled her out of the 100g with 0/0/35 and 7.5 ph. any ideas? thank you for reading. -kevin

Good luck... iam not too big of a Cichlid guy but what happened? like what kinda of behavior did it have?

yeah we are going to need some more inof to help you out here.

Is someone attacking her? Looks a little beat up around the gill area and fins are clamped.

What was pH before (always 7.5)?
Does she have any white spots or fuzzy spots on her(hard to tell from pic)?

Looks stressed and picked on. But deff. need some more info.

The fish has just came out from 55g quarantine with a group of 1m3f and the male was very aggressive. After 2 weeks I just put the group in my 100g community tank with 7 rusties; 6 labs, 12 acei, and 9 cobues including the 4 new ones. My dominate male is in breeding dress and has been chasing females. (this is a bigger less aggressive male) I pulled one out that was holding and this sick one. Imo this sick one has always acted kinda weird and her caudle fin is never fully extended but always scruntched up. The ph has always been 7.5 , she was attacked in the 55g by the male

So this female has been picked on non-stop by the male...that would stress her out and cause her keep fins clamped ....looks a bit like blood specs by the gills and pectoral fins..if you can see if she response to being by her self for a bit...keep lights low and temp high.

That little fish looks so scared. Hope it goes well

I'd get her away from any kinda of stress for sometime. Let her recover and see if she's back to normal. Because if you leave her in there all the stress are going to cause some problems.... and when small problems add up = big problems.... and non of us want that.

Well i hate to tell you this but thats how my Cyno afra charo died.. he got bit up by other fish without me knowing about it.., one day he started to act weird standing on one corner.. bleeding around the gills just like that, i tried to give him some treatment but he couldn't hold it... is she on a separate tank right know?? if not.. do it before is too late..

Thanks everyone! I put her in a 10g tank as soon as i noticed it. her tank is complete with sand and some rocks with caves and I am dosing with maracyn which has erthoromycin which is basically antibiotics. wish me luck! =)

Hope all turns out well. Keep us posted