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I'm very sorry to learn of your loss. Marge has been a celebrity in our household and we've been trying to model our own loach tank based upon your efforts.

Michael

It's been a couple of weeks now and things seem to be progressing, though slower than I'd prefer. Our new "queen" has two spots in the tank, one for daytime and one for nights (without fail over the past 9 days). The novelty has worn off slowly for the other loachs. Initially every night there would...

I've never noticed nor heard of a problem with tannins in the water from bog-wood for fish that enjoy softist/slightly acidic water. However, if you wish to remove the ``yellow stain" then try replacing your carbon filter as well. Eventually the carbon will become saturated with the tannins (and oth...

Howdy, Recently our LFS acquired a very large loach (9+ inches) from an old tank which was taken down with the owner no longer able to care for his fish. We of course fell in love and want to add her to our current clown tank of 14. We currently have 14 clowns in a 90 gal ( while their new "loach-o-...

Howdy, My clowns share a tank with a team of defoliators (silver dollars). This is fine as it's just their nature to mow down plants and we've got enough planted tanks that I can pretty consistently "replace" plants in the loach tank with cuttings from the others. Everything so far (largely with the...

hehe, Anchovy would be my other half lobbying for some of her favorites. She loves the plecos and hybrid parrotfish (sins against nature?). Despite being hybrids, I'll be the first to admit those 2 parrots are among the most social, spirited, and "self-important" fish we've got. It sounds like some ...

Hello all, Our downstairs is finally getting refinished and the stone floor (over concrete) should be ready for a fish tank sometime in late August. It's my intention to rehouse my tribe of clowns at that point in a better tank, the Loachotrope. The room is ground level of the house, has a bathroom ...

I've got a small school of silver dollars in with a small school of clown loaches. In many ways they seem similar and compatible fish. They seem to get along rather well and I believe enjoy similar water parameters. They also both seem rather prone to ich. SD are very much a schooling fish. They sho...

I usually break the "spine" of the lettuce leaf so it can go out sideways. You can also try placing it an angle to the water flow in the tank. Those usually work for me. And unlike most other veggies which I tend to cook first in hot water, the lettuce seems most appealing when raw. The loaches will...

Howdy all, I've been lurking for a month or so and thought it time to say hello. I'm fairly new to loaches, but they are my favorite fish by far after only a couple of months. Well, they we my favorites within a day or so, but we've had them for a couple of months. The information you've all provide...