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Had a breakthrough with my murderous loach, he seems to have calmed down a bit and I have given him some cucumber a couple times when I had some, I found that as long as I had extras like the cucumber, algae wafers and meat foods he was fine, if he goes more then a week where he's only eating flakes...

thanks Diana, I'll see how I go and give updates where necessary

ty loach orgy, I was thinking him and the other fish were under fed anyway, they only only flakes daily, used to toss in algae bits every few days as well but I ran out of those... the cucumber seems like a good idea though and I really must get a hold of meat foods when I can next. He did have a fe...

Yeah I'm on the fishless cycle now, been told I should run fishless for 3weeks or something, is that right? Anyway I'll be monitoring levels and doing appropriate water changes and treatments to get it semi stable before I add fish

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Thanks for the reply Diana, very helpful, I'll see how well I go setting it back up, I'd imagine several water changes will be required fairly early once water is put back in to that tank .

Hi guys I have an old 2' tank that was once set up but has been empty and disused for well over a year, I'm looking to reactivate it and bring it back to life but some of the old features in the tank have grown some of that white hairy mould over it and I was wondering would I have to totally scrub ...

I have a big rock with many large holes through it and rock formations making makeshift caves alaong with the fake stump and ship wreck that fish can swim in and hide, ty for the info though chef, I think I spoke too soon about him calming down though, he jut killed my last gourami :(. I'm going to ...

Ty for info, but I do frequent water changes and the loaches my big loach killed had been in that tank for over 4 weeks with no apparent issues and more lively then the day I bought them. I tend to keep my tank at a constant 24 degrees celcius, and I do have a small 2ft tank that I'm not using that ...

Just to give you guys and update, I have had no new deaths in the tank since I've gotten my moonlight fully operational (honestly I should have made the light myself it's extremely simple in design), and it's been running fully since sunday constantly when the main light is off, loachy seems to be c...

I'm in South East subs of melbourne... roughly 2 hours drive from Sale, would be ideal for him if he doesn't decide to try and kill those loaches as well, lol.

yeah he kills other loaches, he had 4 smaller loach buddies in the tank with him... over the last 4 weeks he's killed the all 1 by 1... was hoping they'd get a chance to grow a bit bigger (they were only 2") then they might've been able to stand up to him, unfortunately I don't have the cash to shel...

Thanks chef, I've tried giving him friends but he keeps killing them, I'll see what I can do but if he keeps murdering his buddies I might have to get rid of him.

hey guys, thanks for taking the time to reply: My tank's history is long and jaded so I'll try to keep it breif... It's a standard 4'x1'x1.5' roughly 180litres (sorry don't know what that is in gallons, I'm Australian, lol), it's current filtration is an Eden 328 submersible power filter and an unde...

Hi I have a clown loach in my tank roughy 4" in size, he spent a rather LONG time alone during a period where nbothing could live in my tank (how he survived is beyond me) either way a few months ago I cleane up the tank and repopulated it with fish, platys, yellow suckers, bronze corys, pepper cory...