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Hello here is the picture as requested....Also we just added Furan 2 to the tank kinda going for the shotgun approach at seeing what it could be...it was very random.

Well she is currently doing a water change again right now but I can answer some of the questions: Last years bug we drained the tank took everything out and bleached the entire inside 3 times and then rinsed it all out. We also let it sit and air out for a while. We removed all the plants and repla...

Yeah we went to the local home depot for our substrate and it works great! Very uniform dirt cheap and we bought several bags of the stuff. The only thing is it gets dirty so we had to wait a few days for the water to clear up before we put the fish into the tank.

Well keep in mind where we live was formerly a warehouse so it didn't have the extensive plumbing system we have now that being said the water mains and the main piping could have copper in it.

Icewall's still asleep but let me see if I can help a bit-We change about 30% of the water every other week. The substrate is sand. THe source of water is from the tap which is from the philadelphia water supply systewm so who knows where its coming from. We have a few river rocks in the tank but th...

I remember seeing icewall's fish first do this. Sometime it can be scary since they can get all lopsided and floating. But like the poster above me said this is normal behavior....now I find it amusing....like laughing at a family member who has fallen asleep at a family function....

Well me and icewall used Commercial Grade Quickrete - Fine Sand in our tank. The sand grains were pretty uniform and the loaches seemed to love it. It took a while to clean all the sand before we put it in (to get all the dust out) but its looks nice and the loaches seemed to love it. We got it from...

Nice looking fish Icewall, but I would seriously consider replacing the Clown with another Modesta. As with pretty much all Loaches they do best in shoals of there own kind and in my experiance Modestas and Clowns are not a good mix because the Modestas will eventually get way to feisty for the Clo...

Well i woke up and I noticed that a lot of fish were dead and so I woke Icewall up and we lost two more fish although the modesta did not show the signs of the disease. it happened rather suddenly.

Hi,
here is the link to the topic to what happened in the 72 gallon tanks.

http://forums.loaches.com/viewtopic.php?t=6284

Thanks for the replies.

They most certainly are!

Well thankfully someone from here has called Icewall so thats good and they are talking to her right now. Thank you so much for listening to me blubber on. If anyone else has any advice please do reply. And thank you for the help everyone.

Well the histrionica just died THis is sucky I don't know what to do....

Icewall said if any of you need to call her you can do so at 215-932-1590 we are going on an emergency run to the LFS.

Hi I am Icewall42's b/f and I live with her. THis morning on the way to work I notice the striata was dead :'( Then I looked and I noticed the two skunks were gone as well and the modests and the histranica was on the way out. They looked terrible. As a precaution I guess we are going to move the cl...