African Cichlids DEAD in my Aquarium - What Happened?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.ย. 2024
- Hi guys, here is a bit of an update on my African Cichlid Tanks. As you'd know I've been travelling, so I wanted to give you an update on how my aquariums are going... Unfortunately I have some not so great news in the Malawi Cichlid tank.
I wanted to share my experience so you know what is happening, and maybe it's something you can be mindful of too in your own tanks. Hopefully it is helpful to you. I also head to Atlas Aquarium to buy some food and check out some rare fish to help lighten up the mood a bit :D Enjoy!!
Timestamps:
1:11 - Background behind the story...
1:55 - So what happened?
3:58 - How did we fix the problem?
6:10 - Laila my 2-year-old Parrotlet
6:42 - Burying one of my fish - RIP :(
8:29 - Feeding my African Cichlids
9:05 - Atlas Aquarium and some rare fish
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Do you think I should get more African Cichlids for the Malawi tank?
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A big thank you to Emily from Gemm Aquatics and Finn from Atlas Aquarium for being such amazing friends and helping me with this difficult situation.
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Have a great week everyone!
I’m so sorry this happened while you were away! 😢 I’m glad I could be there before anything got really bad and we lost more and I’m so happy to hear there was a silver lining with the Anubias. They definitely prefer lower light. Fingers crossed we got ontop of it and no more issues from here on out!
Thank you so much ❤️ You seriously did such an amazing job at handling it, I appreciate you sooooo much 🥹🙏🏼 And yes the Anubias was definitely a silver lining 🤣
Thanks for watching guys, and sorry about this downer. Should I get some more for my tank? And what would your thoughts be on having a Fish Vet come on to talk about fish dying/illness in a future video? Let me know!
Hey Kaity I commented if you can find it. If not, I have three peacocks I’d be willing to give you since they will eventually outgrow my 182 litre. They’re still probably are still around 5-7cm though so I’m not sure if you’d want them, but they’re available for you for free :)
Anything that can educate us as fishkeeps is always a bonus, would also be interesting to hear the fish experts opinions on whether you need to do a big water change/treatment after finding a dead fish in the tank. Ive had it happen before where a fish has died and got lodged under some driftwood etc and by the time id noticed it it was well decomposed / eaten. I always remember hearing if a fish died of natural causes it may be picked at by others but if it dies and the body remains untouched its a bad sign. The only thing i know is bad for sure is that smell when you remove one that been in there a while !
Your plea for subscribers at the end of the video was so sincere that I had to subscribe. Yes, I was one of those who watched without subscribing. Thank you for always having great content Kaity.
Awwww, thank you so so much 🙏🏼 I really appreciate it 😊🙌🏼
Sorry for yours it’s heartbreaking losing fish. I remember losing my best fish and was gutted. Your videos are amazing and so are u
Thank you 🙏🏼🙏🏼
I'm sorry to hear what happened with the fish 😢 I definitely would like to see more fish in your Malawi, the ones in Atlas aquarium are pretty gorgeous, Thanks for sharing, Have a blessed week Kaity😊!!!
The most shallowly buried fish ever Kaity lol. Almost like you laid a leaf on top and job done! 🤣
😂😂 it was hard work
@@Kaityscichlids haha, yes looked exhausting. Never work in the funeral industry is all I can say!!!
A local cat might find it and eat it
Happy to see Layla back representing the vids and the merch. As you say always the unexpected will happen the minute your away. At least your friends were there to prevent that high temp killing off the tank. Ive seen people just have the temp alarms set up on their tanks with probes so it will warn if it gets too high/low but again thats all well and good if it goes off when someone is there to rectify it :D Glad your back home safe and looking forward to some updates on the other tanks
That is actually a really good idea!! I should consider investing in something like that especially with going away so often. And thank you, Laila says hi 😁🦜🦜
I opened youtube and saw that you had uploaded and I was like yay! Another video of your tanks! Then I saw the title.. I’m so sorry Kaity, but if it cheers you up I do have three peacock cichlids that will eventually outgrow my tank if you would like them and I won’t charge you :)
Thank you 🥲🙏🏼🙏🏼 Not the happiest update lol
@@Kaityscichlids no problem I’m only 20 minutes away so lmk 😊
Welcome back Katie!!!!
I love your work Kaity. You are such a beautiful human and love your fish. Keep it up. You will reach 10000k soon... Love ya
Always hard losing Fish family sorry to hear this😔. Glad you made it back home and enjoyed your travels. 🤩
Love your videos and your passion for all things nature. Learnt a lot from you.
Came across your videos whilst researching the FX6 and returned to the hobby after 25 years...very old.
Just subcribed today; looking forward to your upcoming videos. Thanks. Patrick
R.I.P little cichlid 😢
Thank you kaity for very helpful information ❤
Thank you 🙏🏼❤️
Hi Kaity so sorry to hear about your fish 😢 but your tanks are looking amazing
That's the sad part of fish keeping, so sorry for you.
Good thing that it wasn't something more serious and was caught early.
Yes most definitely 🙏🏼 I'm very fortunate it wasn't anything worse and Emily found it so quickly
A similar thing in my aquarium last week. A faulty heater which shot-up the temperature and unfortunately wasn't caught till late. Lost almost 70% of the cichlids in the tank. Very saddening
Thank you Kaity W content and Fin the fish shop guy 🤦🏽♂️ the power of Kaity😁 !!! 🔥❤️🔥🔥😎👌🏼
Sorry to hear about your fish! High temperatures can be rough; in addition to increasing the activity level of the fish, warm water holds less oxygen than cooler water so it's a bit of a perfect storm that can lead to more losses.
I wonder if you've considered using heaters with built-in thermostats as well as your heater controller? You could set the heaters' thermostats to, say, 28°C but have the heater controller set at your regular temp (26°-ish). That way, even if the heater controller goes rogue and tries to boil your tank, the thermostats on the heaters would shut off at 28° as a sort of fail-safe.
Sorry to hear you had issues with your aquarium whilst away that lead to the death of one of your cichlids 😢 Hopefully it's all fixed now and all the fish are ok! Definitely get a fish vet on, they're really cool and there aren't all that many specialist fish vets either. Had talks from them on my degree, and my friend who recently qualified as a vet also had a talk from a fish vet which she really enjoyed! Did a module on fish health and nutrition too, fish pathology and parasitology are fascinating subjects to learn about! Are you planning on any more videos on the rack system coming up? Would be really cool to see an update on those systems!
That's good to hear!! I'm thinking it could be a great educational video. And yes, most definitely, I will do an update on the rack soon. I've still got more content from overseas but I'll mix some at home content inbetween 😁
Hi kaity I’m sorry to hear about your fish thanks for sharing this video
Condolences on the loss of your fish. It is indeed part of the hobby. And life too. I buy the highest quality heaters I can find and keep my room above 75 degrees. I like it warm anyway 🙂😉😊
So sorry to hear that but honestly things could have been far worse. I am always fearful when going away for long holidays especially if there are power surges which affect my house electricity!
So so true! It's always a risk going away. I'm lucky I had Emily to get onto it straight away or it could have been a disaster
If you like budgies you must listen to
"THE FOURTEEN AND A HALF POUND BUDGIE"
by Mike harding. It is hilarious.
Hi kaity
Nice to get an update on your tanks.not all good news but these things happen.😕i think you should definitely get new fish!! more fish looked better!😊besides i think i would start to miss the occasional" your tank is overstocked"comments.😅😅 I was wondering if you're using the sunset/sunrise settings on your lights?oh and cool to that little braniac Laila again, it's funny how clever she is!😅
Hahaha, yes we need those comments back 🤣 I agree, it definitely looked a lot nicer with more fish and it'll probably help with aggression too. Yes, I use a 1 hour ramp up and down for sunset and sunrise with the lights 😊 Laila says hey 🦜👋🏼
@@Kaityscichlidswhen i had a bb algae problem i streched those ramp up and down times so the times with high peak lights got shorter. It took a bit of time and experimenting to find the balance between as much light as possible and not too much so the bb wouldn't grow.but it helped.maybe you can give it a try?+i don't know about ac but my fish show their coolest colors and most interesting behavior during sunset! it's my favorite time of the day 🙂
Sorry to hear of your fish lost the same thing happened to me when a heater failed and cooked all of my fish. now i always keep my heater on controllers, i just love your aquarium's. And your videos.
Im sorry for your loss. I just lost my gourami. Idk why. She stopped eating 2 months ago. Ate randomly since then. I did just about everything but today i woke up, was immediately depressed. Its okay. You tried your best.
Ohhhh no 😭 I'm so sorry to hear that 🙏🏼 It's part of the hobby but always such a downer when that happens 😔 RIP to your little friend
BACK IN OZ !
I bet your own bed has never felt so good after all that travelling !
I'm glad to see laila is happy with you (she must have gotten rid of her tantrum on your mums clothes peg) 🤣
Hope everything gets settled in your in your tanganyikan tank 👍🏻
(I feel like I'm repeating myself by saying great video again, BUT THEY ALL ARE) !
Hahaha, thank you 🤣🙏🏼🙏🏼 Please don't ever worry about repeating that lol! And yes it's certainly good to be home 😊 I'm just getting back into the groove of things now
You got a beautiful beautiful aquarium 🎉
Prices are crazy there for fish! It’s so much higher than here in the states.
I use same equipment, eheim heaters and inkbird 308 controller . A safer way to set up is use 2 smaller heaters each connected to its own controller that way if one malfunctions, the problem, either too warm or too cool tank water occurs half as fast.
That's a good tip!
So sorry to hear. I have never used one of those probes and I don't think I would. You have auto heaters and adding another chance of a fail is not worth it. Goodluck
Helpful information thank you so much
I'm so glad you found it helpful 😊🙏🏼
Great video!!
Thank you 😊🙏🏼
Loosing fish sucks, I’m still sad about my 11” Fahaka puffer PUG dying weeks ago , I had to pick up another one, 1” hope he grows just as awesome as pug
What brand is your Tanks? Very nice Aquariums
I love your videos so much I really enjoy watching them. I’m 15 and have heaps of fish tanks as well and I wanna get some peacock cichlids
And you should definitely get some more Africas for your tank
I think the fish just missed you and your charming appearance. You were away too long and your loving care was missing.😂
Hahaha, I think that is actually what happened 🤣
Hey im sorry for your loss sweetheart. I now have 6 budgies, two are purple. And two Scarlet Chested parrots along with two fighting fish and 8 zeberas.
Thank you 🙏🏼 That's quite a collection you've got there! How awesome, I've never seen a purple budgie! 🦜
If you like budgies you must listen to
"THE FOURTEEN AND A HALF POUND BUDGIE"
by Mike harding. It is hilarious. (It's on this platform)
Is a sump suitable for a 183-liter Malawi cichlid aquarium, or is a canister filter better?
Sorry for your loss Kaity my thoughts are you should get some new cichlids I think you should add some new ones
Thank you 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Hi Kaity did you end up getting some new addition for the tank ❤
Oh no! I think we’ve all been there. Honestly, if it weren’t for my inkbird, my 300 gallon would’ve cooked. Had an Oase filter go bad about a month ago. It went wide open, but the inkbird caught it and killed the power
Wow, that's a close call! So so lucky 🙏🏼
Poor fishy, I lost my flametail peacock while I was away for work last week. Seems like it got bullied then while weak got stuck on my wave maker 😢
Hallo Kaity.I wrote a cuple of weeks ago and asked you how the fish manage without you then you were in europe .Not so good 😢. All the best from Tommy in sweden
I suspect the eheim was your problem - they used to be good. The ones I got 15-20 yrs ago lasted 10+ yrs. the ones i got more recently last about 3yrs and cooked my fish. The one I caught as I was cleaning tank it was roasting The second One was too late. I walked past one tank and it felt warm. I drop half the water had ice cubes and still above 30degreas. The pleco lasted 8 days then died.
Omg noooooo 😭 I'm so sorry to hear that
What type of lights do you have on your tank ?
Sorry about this. Unfortunately it is a part of fish keeping. Sometimes we know what happens, sometimes we don't. Everyone who keeps fish will go through it, we just have to try to understand what happens and how to do it better it possible.
Sorry for the morning bad news from one of your baby's. I was devastated when my Fuscocontenatus passed . Aggression death or infection . Doubtful. In your tank . Any idea Katy?
It's always so tough losing them isn't it 😭 They can be so fragile once they get unwell. And most likely aggression I'm thinking!
My Black Ghost Knife jus passed n don't know why, I've grown him/her out since it was small. 😢
I lost one angelfish by my own mistake, water was too cold, when i separated some.
So Kaity......did you get any new fish in the end?
Not yet!! It's such a big commitment adding new fully grown ones in so I haven't decided yet 😬
Definitely get some more fish, having lots of Africans is a good idea to curb the aggression and picking on one fish and stressing it out.
I to lost a fish today that I had for 3 years my tiger veil angels emo his buddy Larry is now depressed but then Larry is an agara veil angel so longer life span and bigger fish
I'm so sorry to hear that 😞 RIP little guy 🙏🏼
@@Kaityscichlids condolences on your loss to
Lost over 50 full grown
Mbuna in one afternoon
Outside from a pump
That got clogged. 😞
Omg, that is terrible 😞😭
Looking hot after the trip, congratulations,🎉 😅❤👍🏻.
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Why freshwater fish? Saltwater fish are better.
Mate remember your a amateur fish keeper and your friends are conditioned to the aquarium world .... ive been doing tanganyika for 35 years water change twice a year just top up dehydration... fish are extremely healthy and breed well.... personally i think thrs to much hype to push products and i get it... yes i use to be like yourself but finally realised after many years 3/4 of what you do to perimeters of a tank is not needed... keep your filters maintained once every few months maintaining bacteria media within full clean out ..... rest is all about selling a product $$$$ one day you'll wake up and realise
Hey Katie ❤️ u just wanted to tell you I’m so much more comfortable touching my fish now lol I kinda grab them and let them swim through my fingers and when i do water changes I gently lift them out the water and let them swim back in lol a couple are still skittish but it’s fun lol
Awwww, that is awesome!! Well done, they can learn to be so friendly! 🐟🐟