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Thanks Nancy, I appreciate that you understand the feeling

I guess I should mention that, for the right home, maybe it's possible to figure something out to deal with location complications.

I am looking for a new home for my 12 clown loaches. Edit: All set now! Thanks everyone! I care a lot about them, I have had some of them for over 14 years, and some are pretty large, 7-8 inch range. For the most part, they have been my only fish in a 300 gallon tank, but I have had to relocate and ...

Thanks so much both of you! Shadowing A behaviour noted in many Botiine species, particularly clown loaches. One or more of the smaller, subordinate fish swim as closely as possible to a larger more dominant fish, often appearing as if they are ‘joined up’ side-by-side at the gills. This phenomenon ...

Hi there, I have a few clown loaches, but today I noticed something a little strange. At first one of the smaller loaches swam up quickly next to my red tail shark, and started swimming/pushing against his side. I watched him do it again and it almost looked aggressive, he might have even nipped the...

Hello again, I am sorry to be wasting more of your time, but if you have a momment, I would apreciate it. I posted earlier with a tank that was suffering from old tank syndrom, http://forums.loaches.com/viewtopic.php?t=9787&highlight= and I have made lots of chages to help fix this. I put in about 1...

one day... my goal

ok, so there wasnt a bigger gravel vacume really ,,, and i already had the nozel as low as it could go to the gorund. now, i forget acatly how sucktion works, but i know it has something to do with a diferences in pressures, and trying to reach an equilibrium... and so im thinking.. ok, presure has ...

hmm, a bigger gravel vac... i supose that should work, mine is already prety big i thought.. ill see what the fish stores have. and yeah, the net worked ok, but not all of that sand was small enough to filter out of it, so mabey a better net would work. thanks for you help guys, water params are bet...

Hi there, I just put in a sand substrate for my loaches, and the all love it, etc. I did this to help keep a cleaner environment in my fish tank. One big problem though... My pump i'snt strong enough to lift up all the poop so it can get into the filter... So after one day's sleep, I wake up to find...

yeah, well, after talking with laura, we decided to just go with the regualr inert quartz sand to be safe. I liked how it felt and all, and hte loaches seem to like it allot (luara is going to buy me 2 5inch fire eels for my tank... i cant wait) I am also going to be getting a few more moss balls to...

point made. I am convinced. white pool sand it it. however... would there be any reall problems with just having a plain glass bottom? you are right about the angel fish, he norally chils out around the siphon box in a corner where there isnt much water flow... I do have another tank I coould out hi...

hi! this is Laura, Greg's fiance. I was doing some research on the pool sand you guy's had mentioned (quartz pool sand from Leslie's pool supply) and I came across a new interesting type of substrate. It's called Color Quartz and it comes in a variety of colors. It's made of quartz and covered in ce...

hi! this is Laura, Greg's finace. I was doing some research on the pool sand you guy's had mentioned and I came across a new interesting type of substrate. It's called Color Quartz and it comes in a variety of colors. It's made of quartz and covered in ceramic. I read a lot of posts about it and hav...

Hello, The large gravel you have is really a very good trap for waste. I personally use no gravel and have only sand for my loaches now. This problem you have is caused by in-attention and that is multiplied by the large gravel. I would slowly remove it and eventually replace it with plain pool fil...

Thank you guys so much for all of your help. I have read and understand all of this stuff before, I supose I just kinda forgot how important water changes are. We did a 12 gallon water change just now to start off with. (The stuff we found with the gravel vac was pretty bad too) Got a lot of junk ou...