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Last Thursday I went to buy some stuff for my shrimp when I saw a single baby Clown Loach swimming with some Danios. The little one looked healthy, so I decided to give it a new home and some loach friends. Right now little "Raisin" is alone in a 30l (8gal) cube. At first, it had some snails for com...

My biggest loach has something like a pimple on her mouth. I think it started about two months ago as a reddish spot. At first I though she just fought with another loach and only observed the spot for infection. For a while nothing happened, so I let her be. Recently I noticed she has this pink lum...

Thanks for advice. I’ll try peat when setting up a bigger tank somewhere in spring. After consulting various other forums, someone suggested my fish may be suffering from gill flukes. The symptoms hinted at either those, ammonia or nitrite poisoning or lack of oxygen. Water tests dismissed the secon...

You've got such soft water! I can't do anything about mine, unless my family finally agrees to an RO filter.

Ich was gone a while ago, and on the 22nd December I moved the little ones to the main tank. Everything was fine until a few days ago. I noticed one of them breathing rapidly, moving from one hiding spot to another. It passed away next day. No sign of disease, water parameters stable. Now another yo...

Thank you for help. The smallest one got a mild case of ich, just a few spots. I went for temperature treatment, although I've bought medicine just in case. All traces of the parasite are gone now, but I'll keep the water warm for a few more days. All loaches are happy, so everything should be all r...

Looks like something really hates me. I intended to follow your advice, when the little guy decided to sit right in front of me. He's more active today and swims upright most of time. Unfortunately, now he has ich. I'll try raising temperature combined with frequent water changes. Hopefully it will ...

Thank you for your answer. Now I'm positive water condition is causing problems. Overnight nitrites rocketed to 0,15ppm. I've made a water change, but its not exactly a solution. I can't figure out why a tank that was running without fish for a little over a month became so unstable now. Should I mo...

Three days ago I’ve bought five clowns, that are in a quarantine tank for now. Four of them are active and looking for food, but one is hiding most of the time and seems to have trouble swimming. Usually it is either lying on its side or plastered against the inner side of an upturned coconut half. ...

Hello, it is my first time posting here, although I’ve been reading both the site and the forums for a few years now. I have six of those cute little devils known also as clown loaches in a 224litters (160x35x40cm) tank. They are about 5-10cm long right now and have a great time destroying every liv...