Recently purchased pair(?) Of Apistogramma panduro(?)

[Coldramen777]

Attached are photos of the fish in question. The larger one keeps chasing the smaller one.

 

[MacZ]

Yes they are A. panduro but both are in miserable shape and the one you say is getting chased looks like it's not going to survive the next week unless you separate them immediately.

 

[Coldramen777]

Yes they are A. panduro but both are in miserable shape and the one you say is getting chased looks like it's not going to survive the next week unless you separate them immediately.

Crap. I'll get to work on that.

 

[KenL]

Did they look like that when you bought them?

 

[Coldramen777]

Did they look like that when you bought them?

Pretty close

 

[MacZ]

Don't buy from there again. Bad quality. Both are underweight, both have stumps for ventral fins and it seems they actually got finrot, which you see rarely in cichlids unless the water quality is really bad.
And the one that looks worse pretty surely has a bacterial infection.

If you want to safe them: separate tanks, soft water, lots of hunic substances (tannins) and treat with an external desinfectant, not antibiotic. Something containing malachite green and that category of external antibacterials.
But frankly it will only safe the dominant one.

 

[Mike Wise]

Sadly, breeders often don't cull. This leads to (as MacZ wrote) "bad quality".

 

[MacZ]

I'm trying to keep emotions out of this topic, because then I would rant endlessly. So please excuse my probably too matter of factly language.