Loaches Online Forum

Room T is 74F. Room T water is not dumped back in all at once. I've got two 100W heaters in the tank. Room T water is added back in over the course of ~ 1 hr. By going slowly, I try to ensure that the tank T drops no more than 3 degrees. Having said that, your advice is well taken. I'm going to back...

Thanks...not sure what you mean though. I purchase my RO water, let it warm overnight to room temperature, check it with my test kits, typically add a dechlorinator, then dump it in the tank. I'm going to stop using the liquid fertilizer and see what happens for now...

My loaches get frozen cubes of brine shrimp, etc - no live food. Thanks Shari for the link. I too have read of the perilous path a loach takes before arriving at the LFS. Mine have come from a variety of sources, but they've all died after a short while. I have no quarantine tank set up. I tried for...

Greetings all. I've enjoyed looking around the archives and such, but I still need help. I've kept a heavily-planted, 55 gallon, CO2 supplemented, freshwater aquarium for several years. Over the last year, my one goal has been to raise clown loaches, but I'm failing like I've never failed before. Ov...