Loaches Online Forum

I think you may have pulled the trigger but shot a blank. What I mean by that is in my opinion one of the reasons loaches are more difficult to spawn is they require more specific triggers to breed than say corydoras catfish. That said, the night before you did a 25% water change and changed your li...

Here is exactly what I think you should do. Take a water sample from your tank to the best fish shop in town and have them test it for ammonia, nitrite and PH. If everything checks out fine I would do a 50% water change and dose the whole tank with oxytetracycline. Turn off you lights, stop feeding ...

Well many times if a fish gets ammonia burned during shipping it will scratch it's opercula (gill plates) on surfaces. That alone is not really a problem. If the fish look healthy otherwise most times ammonia burn ends up healing much like a sun burn does. Scratching can also indicate the presence o...

Holy cow, that's the first time Dave C has ever agreed with a word I said. He must be mellowing as he gets older. I talked to mpeterb yesterday. He ripped open his fish bags and dumped them in his tank like I recommended he do. He said the loaches were eating 5 minutes later. Here is why I don't acc...

With all due respect those are my fish I am sending him. When he gets them they will have been in the bags at least 48 hours. Acclimating them will only stress them out. These are rock solid strong fish I have babied for months. They will eat within 5 minutes of him letting them go. If he attempts t...

Don't acclimate them at all. Just float the bags about 10 minutes and let them out. They will be fine. Trust me.