Loaches Online Forum

Hi,
I have a 400 litre tank, excellent water quality with 10 clown loaches and 5 Pakistani loaches. They are all fairly small, less than 2 inches.
One of my clowns has been floating at the top of the tank in a straight up and down position for 4 days now and another has just started to do the same ...

palaeodave wrote:All you need to add is a dechlorinator to your new water when dealing with a mature tank, under normal circumstances.

Which I can only assume is much cheaper!

Hi, yes I was talking in degrees when referring to GH and KH.

I have taken your comments on board and am taking action... in the meantime I lost another clown today as well as my Black Ghost :(
The other clown are fluttering and look very nervous... already dreading what I'll find in the morning ...

I just tested the tap water (before and after adding Nutrafin Cycle and Aqua Safe)

Cl2 - 0
pH - 6.2
KH - 0
GH - 0
NO2 - 0
NO3 - 0

I also just did a 20% water change (the tank is 300 litres) and after 20 minutes I found the readings were exactly the same... now I have to wonder how accurate these ...

Hi all,
My first post here... I have 2 tanks and have a wide variety of fish but my favourite are 8 clown loaches which I've had for well over a year. Almost overnight they were covered in whitespot and I tried treating them straight away with Ich Gaurd II for scaleless fish. Within 2 days I had ...