The red jewel looks real bad, with bite marks and really beat up and frayed fins. What is the best treatment to remedy that problem?
< Keep the water clean and use Bio-Coat by Marineland. Add a teaspoon of rock salt per 5 gallons of water. If you see any infection of fungus then treat the tank with Nitrofurazone.> Any info is greatly appreciated, Thank you. And lastly, Really great Website! < Thanks for you kind words.-Chuck> Blue Dolphin Cichlid Will Not Eat 12/2/05 Hi guys. I am writing because on Friday I got a Blue Dolphin and he has not been eating. We have tried everything. Shrimp pellets, Cichlid flakes, blood worms, Tubifex, and floating pellets. Nothing worked. So decided better go to the LFS to see what they were feeding. The were feeding frozen Cichlid delight. So we purchased that. He swims around and seems to be normal otherwise. He is in a 55 gallon with a small Frontosa and Blood parrot, which we got at the same time. Nitrates .5 ppm and Nitrites zero, ammonia low can remember exact reading but low. One thing I did notice he was doing was like a rapid mouth stretch. But he has absolutely shown no inte
