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Everything starsplitter said. You may want to return the clowns to the store if possible. Ideally you should have a minimum of 5 clowns in a minimum of 75 gallons. I started out like you did and it mostly worked out, but it isn't good for the fish. Also, my tank was cycled when I added them. Clowns ...

How long has it been since you noticed the spots? It can take over a week for the spots to clear up and to be certain you have killed it off, as only one of the three phases is susceptible to medicine. Your loaches may even get worse before they get better. Follow the instructions on the medicine yo...

All of my clowns click, even the little one inchers I have in the Q-tank right now. Pretty much any sinking wafer= clicky time. You have to be close to the tank to hear it, but it is quite obvious. Favorites are Hikari sinking wafers (little brown ones) and shrimp pellets, I forget which brand. I'm ...

chefkeith wrote:That looks like ich to me. With Velvet the spots are 10x smaller.

I agree with Keith. The spots on the male's tail and upper fin look just like how my major ich outbreak started.

Thanks for the tips Diana. I had heard Clowns could be 'carriers' of ich, perhaps I misunderstood. Someone at one of the local fish shops was suggesting that our recent ich outbreak possibly from our original Clowns, which we kept for over a year without any disease outbreaks. I highly doubted that ...

Looks like we have the ich under control, though sadly we lost our two biggest loaches. Our tank is pretty empty at this point, only one of our 3" loaches survived, plus the 3 babies and our 3 tetras. I'm still treating the tank for at least another week to be sure the ich is gone. Side note: how lo...

Thanks for the suggestions. So far all the fish are hanging on, even the 'bad' tetra was eating heartily and chasing its fellows around. Of course, I forgot that our sink attachment to the gravel vacuum broke last weekend, so had to run out and get another one this morning. The timing on this is jus...

We recently got 3 new smaller clowns from an acquaintance who couldn't keep them any more. She had them about 2 months and they had never displayed any signs of illness. So we didn't quarantine them or pre-treat before adding them to our new 55 gallon. Stupid, stupid. Last night I wasn't sure, but t...

I feed mine in the morning, so they are always awake before the lights even come on in the morning (~7AM) and stay awake for around 2 hours busily vacuuming up fallen food. Mine have a penchant for afternoon naps. They are usually tucked in to a cave when I get home from work around 5PM. On weekends...

nitrate= 40ppm (mg/L) - this is the same amount of nitrate as in tap water, correct? this should be as low as possible in a salt water aquarium? how do i reduce it or is this level ok? 40ppm is right on the edge of safe (0-50ppm). Do the same test on water straight from your tap. My tap water is 0p...

Hi all, I'm new to LOL but have been reading through old posts and everyone seems friendly and very very knowledgeable. Experience: I grew up with my father running a 20 gal. community tank with neon tetras and swordtails. Later my sister got her own 20 gal. and put in danios and black-skirt tetras,...