Loaches Online Forum

Probably won't bond with the clown loach, but also shouldn't cause any troubles either.. It all depends on how many of each species you have.

A single yoyo loach can sometimes get itself into trouble due to their somewhat 'playful' nature.

As an aside to our current discussion and more on the topic..

When I got my 210 gallon tank, I did not wait 6 months to move my clown loaches into it. What I did do, was run one of the two canister filters for the tank on the 75 that the clowns moved out of for about a month before I moved them. I ...

API (Aquarium Pharmaceuticals, Inc) and Kordon/Novalek both produce test kits that give reliable free ammonia readings.

I fail to see how it matters if non-toxic forms are created in the tank or elsewhere and then added to the tank. So the process itself is not important, but the resulting compounds are -- if you can convince the bacteria that they are a valid food source.

NH4+ is readily consumed by both lower ...

As to NaCL and nitrite toxicity.. It does nothing to the nitrites and I'll let a more learned colleague of mine explain how it does its magic:

"Salt does have other limited uses. It temporarily reduces the effect of nitrite toxicity at 0.1-0.3 % -- the chloride ion counteracting the nitrogen ...

Gotta hate it when you need to edit and someone replies to your already written post.

Perhaps the best approach would be to find out just what are non-toxic ammonia and nitrites are and feed them to the tank prior to adding new fish -- to build up the bacteria without endangering the current fish. Someone who knows chemistry better than me may guess what the Seachem people are ...

It took me a bit longer than expected, but the picture site is up and running again!

http://www.loachtank.org/

Please update your bookmarks appropriately.

Craig

Guys (and gals too) last month I ran into some serious money issues and I could not get the domain name renewed. This is why the site isn't working.

Please understand that nothing is lost. Its just a matter of me changing a few settings here so that you can access it from another domain name.

I am ...

Please pardon this OT intrustion...

If you have an email account with me on any of the above domains, please adjust your settings so that SMTP (outgoing) and POP3 (incoming) both point to:

admin.2cah.com

Thanks!

And now back to our regularly scheduled loachiness..

Just a heads up to everyone involved that on Monday, May 22nd both picture sites will be taken offline while I upgrade Coppermine.

I apologize now for any inconvenience.

I must apologize to everyone for the picture site(s) being down. My former ISP and I had a bit of a falling out and I rather unceremoniously found myself without internet access..

The problem has been resolved and the sites are back up. The primary site is:

http://www.loachtank.com/

The other ...