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Hey Loachy Lovers here's a new movie of my dwarf chain loaches and how they stalked a shrimp pellet. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN7SjFHSn6I This one is in 3 parts, though I apologise in advance as the first 2 parts are taken without macro setting on - the 3rd part is definitely clearer. In this ...

Very nice movies. I love the banded mountain loach with his long whiskers.

here's another clip of my fish eating microworms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX6DcHSs660

Have just learnt how to upload movies so here are a few of my dwarf chain loaches. You should mute most of them as I also haven't gotten a hang of doing a good soundtrack yet either. This one is of them getting excited about a change in the filter position that made more bubbles http://www.youtube.c...

There are 4 left - 3 are plump like little fat slugs and eat like pigs. The other one was nearly as skinny as Mr Skinny before he went downhill but last week he seemed to start filling out a bit more. I have given them a dose of levamisole this afternoon to see if that aids in any way.

I treated the skinny fish with levamisole on Saturday and he died yesterday.

Hello, I have had 5 dwarf chain loaches for a few months, and just wondering, when you refer to a skinny loach, how skinny is skinny? Of the 5, 3 are fat and slug shaped, 2 are more snake like in thickness. Is that simply the difference between a male and female or might the skinny ones have worms? ...

I have boraras maculatus and dwarf chain loaches, they get on well, my tank is smaller than yours.