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3% food grade hydrogen peroxide has worked great for me in killing hydras and all my fish are doing great. I have many loaches and rasboras. Here are some resources for directions and such. :) hope it helps! https://www.plantedtank.net/threads/hydra-and-hydrogen-peroxide-my-expreriences.1305317/ htt...

I have a 3 year old weather loach who was fine one day and the next he's laying on his side and not swimming really at all. I thought maybe he was constipated but he pooped so guess not. He wants to eat, when food is next to his mouth he will excitedly eat it, but won't swim around to get the rest o...

Thank you everyone, I'll be getting new substrate next month for sure and will post updates. I'm still learning how to add photos but if you're able here is a link: https://www.instagram.com/p/CmHe8InvMcx/ https://www.instagram.com/p/CmHgGJ6PyY_/ There isn't a lot of sand stuck to their bodies at th...

Hey everyone, I'm just wondering if it's normal for my sand substrate to sometimes be stuck to my dojo loaches back or side? I cannot find anything online about it. It doesn't happen all the time but I recently got my hand in there and tried to brush it off. Came off easy. I've seen a patch of sand ...

Thank you redshark1! That is amazing you have your clowns for so long!

Hello, I am hoping to gain some insight on tank sizes dependent on the size of a group or shoal of loaches. I know this can also depend on the loach species itself. I am particularly interested in gold zebra loaches (botia histrionica), yoyo loaches (botia almorhae) or polka dot/burmese border loach...

Thank you NancyD! I will talk to the people at the fish store about what you said. Thank you so much!

Hi everyone! Hope you're all doing well! To really ask my question, I feel like I need to give you all a brief recap of my loach keeping history. 2 years ago I was a super newb at fishkeeping in general and purchased one yoyo loach from a chain petstore. Long story short, I figured out they are scho...