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Cichlid, orange and black spotted…

My Texas cichlid has a reddish growth like thing on his gill and like a white spot on his tail fin and it seems to be eating his tail fin away very slowly
Know what it is? It seems like it might be some fungus or something.
Need to know what it is and how to heal it
Thanks

I have a 55 gallon with 3 2″ cichlids, 1 6″ jack demsey, an algae eater, and a narrow black fish, don’t know what it is but he has a hammerhead and my son calls him a shark, but he’s not the typical silver type mini shark. He’s 5″ –> anyone know what he might be called?.

I have few fish & I haven’t done a water change in quite a while — about 10 months. We have very hard water so I know the water gets harder if you don’t do water changes and just keep topping off the tank, however, all of the fish were happy anyway & I had no fatalities.

(1) I did a half tank water change 2 days ago. How soon can I add new fish?

(2) While vacuumming the gravel, as you can imagine, tons of particles fog the tank during my cleaning. I felt really bad. Is this bad for this fish? Is it hard for them to breathe?

(3) Is it normal for fish to open and close there mouth inside the tank? I never noticed but am nervous

(4) Can I add Oscars to my cichlid/jjack demsey tank?
We have hard well water. (no chlorine)

i have 1 Fl garr, 2 snow flake elees, 1 texas cichlid, and a plako in a 75gal tank and want to move my 2 giraffe cichilds from my 30 gal to the 75gal let me know what you think

Its over a foot long, pink chest and black vertical body stripe, but has a small but not really significant lump on its head.
I used to haave it with a synspyllum cichlid which grew much faster and got the male head hump.
its a 6 foot tank, so plenty of room