First, what you need to do is take all of the fish out,
then take all of the gravel out.

Clean the tank out and get rid of the fish and gravel.

Then set it up as a salt water reef aquarium.


If that is not an option for you then try posting your
question to a fresh water aquarium newsgroup.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets



Jason wrote on 5/29/2006 1:50 PM:
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