cgronko
07-11-2008, 08:48 AM
Hey,
I was wondering if anyone could help me. I have 4 eureka red cichlids. 1 male 3 females. They are in a big community cichlid tank and wont breed because there are too many other fish in the tank. When i take them out and put them into a 55 gallon tank by themselves, the 3 females immediatly try to hide and will never come out if im around. The problem is they are always hiding and will never eat, the second i put them back into the 125 gallon with the rest of the fish they are fine and eat everything. I am having the same problem with some electric blue jack dempseys i resently got. They were in a huge 210 gal aquairum with many other fish and now i have the 5 of them in a 55 gallon. They immediatly hide when ever i walk into the room and are too scared to go to the top of the tank to eat pellets. When i put anything that sinks into the tank it just sinks to the bottom and gets lost in the gravel. I am having a pretty hard time feeding these fish and i am getting sick of doing daily water changes because there is so much extra food in the tank. Anyone know how to get these fish to not be soo scared of me? Is there something i could put in the tank or something i should take out? I am getting so sick of it i am thinking about just taking all the rocks out of the tank and keeping it empty. Would this solve the problem? The only thing is that the dempseys are very aggressive and i dont know if the big male would attack the other fish and kill them if the smaller dempseys didnt have any where to hide? Please if anyone knows how to fix this problem let me know! Thank you very much.
I was wondering if anyone could help me. I have 4 eureka red cichlids. 1 male 3 females. They are in a big community cichlid tank and wont breed because there are too many other fish in the tank. When i take them out and put them into a 55 gallon tank by themselves, the 3 females immediatly try to hide and will never come out if im around. The problem is they are always hiding and will never eat, the second i put them back into the 125 gallon with the rest of the fish they are fine and eat everything. I am having the same problem with some electric blue jack dempseys i resently got. They were in a huge 210 gal aquairum with many other fish and now i have the 5 of them in a 55 gallon. They immediatly hide when ever i walk into the room and are too scared to go to the top of the tank to eat pellets. When i put anything that sinks into the tank it just sinks to the bottom and gets lost in the gravel. I am having a pretty hard time feeding these fish and i am getting sick of doing daily water changes because there is so much extra food in the tank. Anyone know how to get these fish to not be soo scared of me? Is there something i could put in the tank or something i should take out? I am getting so sick of it i am thinking about just taking all the rocks out of the tank and keeping it empty. Would this solve the problem? The only thing is that the dempseys are very aggressive and i dont know if the big male would attack the other fish and kill them if the smaller dempseys didnt have any where to hide? Please if anyone knows how to fix this problem let me know! Thank you very much.