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Hi ClownLoach,
What's your population ?
Water parameters ?
Tank layout ?
Volume ?
How old your clowns are ?
etc...
Sorry for this policeman like abrupt question, but it seems to me that it might be some case of emergency out there.
Cordialement,
Dom

Hi Sophie,

Beautifull rocky tank bottom ! (I hope not beeing ambiguous or disrespectful,so if it' s the case, i apologize beforehand...)

Could you shoot a wider picture to let us see ?

Generaly speaking, yoyos tends to darken under stress conditions, territorial problems, unadaptated water ...

Hi Suya1,

Ouch !!!
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/5518/toomuchli0.jpg

I' ve searched for some informations about nanotanks, the biggest seam to be 24gal. am i right ?
Anyway, it's much too short for your actual population as situation will soon become unbearable for your fishes and for you ...

Hi Suya1,
First, sorry for your botia, some of them never reach to get old in a tank.

To reply to your question, i keep botias for a year now in a 200L tank.

Home-made substrate, Loire river sand, roots, slate stacks, small blue and red rolled coryndons (not much, expensive and quickly kitsch ...

Hi Suya1,

When your botia has he been introduced in your tank ?

It sometimes takes many days for fishes to become acclimatized.

Small specimens can give impression of not eating, though they eats however ; not beeing very demanding in sort and quantity of food, they satify their hunger with ...

Hi Dev,

Yes, i think your fish is of Beaufortia sort, too.

Technical datas are ok to keep gastromyzon, except for temp wich is a little bit too high.
Ideally, temp should not exceed 24°C to make him comfortable.
One or two big rocks should be suitable,too.

Cordialement,
Dom

Hi,
You give him food, ok, but does he eats ?

Have you tried living food ?
Frozen food ?
Home made food ?

I'm in the same trouble actualy with 2 young striatas who refuses anything except from living or frozen food (in fact, they only eats stuffs looking like "real natural food")

But they ...

Hello,

Yes, kubotais and widely, botias, are highly specialized in shellfishes and molluscs hunting.

But within some limitations.

Though they try untiringly, small sized botias cannot kill snails having operculum, like Melanoides tuberculatus.

Could your kubotais kill trumpet snails, they all ...

First, Hi everyone.

I'm a newcomer in loaches.com and as you'll certainly quickly notice, french.

So sorry for my poor english, i'll do my best for being understable.

Hello Linda,

do you mean that you keep a sole yoyo loach ?

If these is the case, don't be surprised if he gets aggressive.

For ...