55 gallon african cichlid tank

External Since: May 29, 2006 Posts: 1

Hi,
my wife and I have a 55 gallon african Cichlid tank we have a total of 10
cichlids and we were wondering what would cause a fish to discolor our
labidochromis caerulues (electric yellow) is now a brown color and we are
not sure why, he doesnt looked stressed we have had our water check on a
regular basis to see if maybe it was a ammonia problem the water checked out
fine our PH lvls are good and we were just wondering what it could be, we
have 2 Pengiun 350's as our filters and a bunch of real rocks, any ideas
would be great as the only other people we have to ask is around here is the
local petsmart (not saying anything bad ) but they are not the best of
advise for cichlids we went ahead and put ammo lock in there just to be safe
than sorry and we did a 15-20% water change as well

Thanks
Jason

External Since: Jul 20, 2005 Posts: 239

"Koi-Lo" <none> wrote in news:447b5098@news.henrynet.se:

> It's spelled LABIDOCHROMIS CAERULEUS and there were 80,000 hits on

L. caeruleus refers directly to the blue Lab., most recent texts classify
the yellow Lab. (generally the only Lab. ever found in stores) as
Labidochromis sp. as there is ongoing debate on whether or not the many,
many forms of Labidochromis found in Lake Malawi are indeed just multiple
colour forms of one species or really multiple species.

Labidochromis is actually one of the most omnipresent fishes in the lake,
but the yellow form originates only from one particular small part of the
lake.

Incidentally, we brought in wild Yellow Labs. from the lake once for a
store owner's brother. They are reportedly one of the most hard to catch
fish in the lake and if I recall correctly cost nearly CND$40 a piece
wholesale! You don't want to know what they would retail for at that
price. ;)