Loaches Online Forum

I got my HM TDS-4 last week and finally tried it today. We have well water and untreated the meter reads 352, when using our sodium water softener it reads 336. My tanks ranged from 417, 409, 600 to 470 so far what tanks I've tested anyway. The 600 one is an overcrowded angel fry tank with parents a...

Great thanks chiefkeith and starsplitter7. I was getting so confused trying to figure out which calibration solution to buy. One description says to use a calibration solution close to the water to be tested. How would you know this if you haven't used the tds meter yet???? I thought you really had ...

Hi everyone, Thought I'd jump into the conversation as I've always wanted to get a TDS meter as well. I'm put off by my ignorance of what I will need to do to properly calibrate it. Do you have to do this each time you finish or start to use one of the Hanna TDS meters? Which calibration "stuff" sho...

I have mine in 6.8-7.4 and they are fine. Their tank has diy co2 and this doesn't bother them at all... it's better not to mess with ph and try to keep it stable (though my co2 lowers it a bit). I find them to be quite hardy and happy with weekly water changes in my planted 55.

Well, it's been a while since I posted here so wanted to followup... Very strange, I stopped the prazi treatment for my 6 new botias and did water change and added carbon. After 2 days with salt and kanamycin flakes they are all better. It's so weird that the bloody streaks and such went away that q...

I would say it's an internal bacterial infection though one of the two now seems to have "flaking" bloody skin near the bloody red area/belly. God, it's awful, they are so cute and look horrendous. I thought prazi was super safe and didn't think deworming would be so harsh if they were infected. Did...

Hi everyone, I've searched the archives etc. but can't find anything about my situation... I've been qt'ing 6 botia striatas and treated with levamisole. I then treated with prazi which was prob. a mistake, since this is when the one loach shows blood on his belly and skin looks torn. Very strange.....

Thanks everyone for your input, I think they are leeches as Mad Duff said, they aren't hairlike at all and they were quite large not magnified when I took the pic. Gross. I guess I'll do the salt thing since I hope to deal with it w/o tearing down. I wonder how I got them.. anyone hear of them from ...

I just came across this pic of a leech and this looks like what is in my tank too.. Gross.... any thoughts anyone?



http://www.bugsandweeds.co.uk/leeches.html

Sorry, forgot to link!

Here it is......

http://s208.photobucket.com/albums/bb14 ... usworm.jpg


or here's the photo

Hi everyone, I've been treating my tanks for camallanus over the past 4 months. Thought everything was cool but then I found these creepy worms in the substrate of one of my planted tanks and I just lost a favorite bristlenose who was skin and bones. I treated with levamisole a few months ago with n...

I don't have any instructions for the pills, just what I've researched here... The feed store I got them from only gave me some pills in a baggy. I didn't buy a whole bottle.

Thanks grizzlyone, that makes me feel much better. I actually treated the tank 2 days ago with a half dose jungle's parasite clear and today vac'd up two live worms. Ew. Now I've done a 50% water change and added the lev. dose...

Thanks everyone for your input. I'll give it a go today and hopefully my 4 babies will pull through. I'm doing it based on the recommendation to treat new wild caught loaches, not due to signs so I am a bit leery.

Thanks again.

Hi all. I am going to pick up some pills for my 4 (out of 6) new remaining botia striata babies in my 10 gallon qt. After scanning the forums here and reading the levamisole information on the site and studying the calculator I'm a bit nervous. I know the pills are messy and not easy to dose, but on...