Loaches Online Forum

It sounds alot like what is happening to my loaches. I made a thread a few days ago. Unfortunately I'm down to 4 loaches compared to 8. The other 4 loaches seem fine, but the other 4 were breathing hard and red before they died. Every loach that had died was extremely bloated. Its getting really fru...

redinfinity wrote:Have you tried removing the peat to see what happens?

Nah. Simply because my algae eater started to get bloated before I added peat. I can't see that being the problem, but I should remove it for the mean time anyway.

I found one of my loaches dead yesterday. Theres another two still bloated and breathing heavily. I've been treating the tank with maracyn-two for the past couple days.

Figures the algae eater is still kicking and hes the one that had it first.

Any suggestions would be appreciated

Hi Diana, Thanks for your reply. The one loach breathing the fastest isn't eating. When I woke up this morning he wasn't really with the rest of the group. The rest of them however are still eating, yet half of them have that red'ish tone. I'll also note that 2 weeks ago my big angel fish was severe...

Gary Stanton wrote:Do a water change.

I've been doing 30% water changes every day. Today I went a step further and did an 80% change.

I lowered the temperature on the tank to 81 aswell.

Hey everyone, Wondering if you can give me some idea on whats going on. I've had 8 clown loaches for a long time, never had a single problem with them. However the past couple days Ive noticed their heads/barbels have reddened, as well as breathing really fast. At first I noticed one of them acting ...