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I've had it for at least a year - I think it's been more like two years, but I honestly can't remember when we brought it home. It doesn't come out all that much, but yesterday I walked in the room and it was perfectly posed on the driftwood and I was able to get a couple of pictures! It's not incre...

In case anyone has this problem in the future and stumbles across this thread: After my last post, I was down to 6 live kuhli loaches out of an original 13. All but two were severely deformed with kinked spines or being stuck in corkscrew shape. They could still eat, but they could not straighten th...

I got some photos of the one black kuhli corkscrewing. It's holding steady in the spiral for a few moments afterwards so I was able to get a clear picture. :( They're on fine-grained white sand, so I can't tell if it's sand grains or ick on them. And I notice a gold sheen in the photos like it could...

I ran another water sample to the lfs this morning, and it's still okay: Ammonia 0ppm Nitrite 0ppm Nitrate 15ppm I'll do another sand vac and small water change tomorrow as long as I don't have any more fish in distress. I'm actually not worried about this tank loosing it's cycle - it's moved houses...

We screwed up with timing on getting a new heater for the tank - our last one broke and we haven't been able to afford a new one until this week. So the tank has been at room temperature (68 degrees) for about a month and a half now. It was stupid, but we had no choice. On Sunday, I went to crawl in...