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If you can find them Polka Dot Loaches would work well. They have just as much of an addicting attitude as Clowns imo. They love snails also!

Ahhh...I see you have Tiger Barbs and Rasbora's living together. I have some Rasbora's right now and I just upgraded to a 55 Gallon tank from a 15 Gallon and was thinking about adding a nice school of 10 Tiger Barbs!

I recently bought 3 bags of the moon sand and it looks awesome in my 55 gallon tank. I'm in the middle of upgrading tanks and I used white sand in my 15 gallon and it doesn't look as good as the black sand does in my new 55 gallon tank.

Man, how did you get them to sit still long enough for a pic? Any pics I have gotten of mine is by pure luck.

Oh yes, I know. I'm keeping it in for a bit still.

Good news so far. My cory's are free of ich. I just need my loach drop his last few ich spots!

I got it from the pet store I bought my loaches at. I checked back about a week later after I bought them and all their botia's have ICH. I know how I got it.

I appreciate your help Linden, but this strain is pretty tough and I'm using salt/heat as a last resort.

Thank you, Dancesalone for the link. It's just what I'm looking for. My cory's look like they are behaving alot better since I added the salt to my aquarium. Hopefully my remaining Botia turns ...

I tried Rid-Ich for two weeks and nothing. I've lost 6 tiger barbs and 2 loaches with the medication route. 25% water changes every day during medication.

I turned the temp up on my tank to 86(slowly) and put in 3 tablespoons of salt per the instructions on the aquarium salt I bought from wal-mart. How often should I be putting salt into my 15g aquarium?

I just picked three up at my LFG while I was looking for khuli's(very hard to get around here for some reason). It was a very welcome surprise to see those guys there and they were only $8 a loach. Very good deal for them, imo. I got 3 and they are a blast to watch. They even bully around the Tiger ...