Loaches Online Forum

Ashleigh, Thank you so much for the informative response. I was using a liquid nitrate test kit, and I didn't shake the bottle or the vial. The instruction manual had gotten wet at some point, so all of the pages were stuck together and ruined. I was going by the limited information on the bottle, a...

Hi ChefKeith, Thank you for your message and condolences. I am positive that they did do a nitrate test, but I am not sure what the reading was. The first time I took the water in to have it tested, the results weren't good. I figured out that one of the fake plants in the tank had started to come a...

Wow, you are all so wonderful! Thank you for the fast replies. The loaches are dojo loaches (weather loaches?). The sick one looked just like this: http://badmanstropicalfish.com/gallery/species-images/mb_pictures/eric/dojo.jpg Here's the story: Sadly, my fiance died in a motor vehicle accident on J...

Hi, I recently started taking care of an established 55 gallon freshwater aquarium for the first time, and I'm in the process of learning all about it. The aquarium contains 3 loaches (2 salmon colored and one brown), 4 goldfish, and 2 plecostomuses. One of my loaches (about 3" long and salmon color...