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I raised the temp to 86 used coppersafe and salt for secondary infection they say loaches don't tolerate these easily so I gradually did all this

3 1/2 years later all my loach'sare still great we even had a bout of Ich everyone survived

They look so happy and goofy mine look like that at supper time when they get their frozen food

That's awesome about the breakthrough it's good to watch goofy clowns my favorite my sisters clowns always hide she has them with discus. Glad you got some rainbows for you clowns I was watching my clowns swimming around my rainbows doing the male dance today they were practically bumping them and t...

I have rainbows with my clowns plus I hae 9 golden zebra loaches also with my 5 clowns 14 rainbows 2 bolivian rams and 2 torpedo barbs mine are always out with the exception of an afternoon nap sometimes I have a heavily planted tank with 3 pieces of driftwood its a 120 gallon http://www.youtube.com...

welcome I'm from Ontario Canada and have 15 loaches myself can you post some pics

nice looking fish

My clown loach is healing nicely he only has the deepest part of the scrape showing now the rest has started to heal by turning grey now starting to go back to the original colors and the end of his tail is growing back

I agree loaches are a social fish I have 15 loaches all together only 5 of them are clowns but all my loaches hang out an play together I also keep my aquarium over 80 degrees plus I have a uv sterilizer installed inline so far never had ich

I think a 240 gallon would be great for them my sister has 10 in a 200 gallon I would watch the loaches not growing this happened to me and I lost one to skinny disease I bought 6 2 were not growing as fast as the others one really started to thin out api general cure has metronidazole in it and tre...

redshark1 wrote:I would make extra sure my fish cannot contact my heater. Heater guards are cheap and have worked 100% for me over the 15 years I have had them so I highly recommend their use and rate them essential.

I will try and find some

no i don"t have heater guards i only have one heater in the aquarium right now I bought 2 but only have put in one since we have a 3d rock wall with most of our stuff hidden in it

Thanks my aquarium is something I have spent a lot of time on

The only thing we have in this tank is 3 pieces of driftwood and its heavily planted, we have a 3d rock wall made of foam and cement and there are 2 little caves in it for the intakes of my cannister filter with the intake baskets taking up most of the room I guess the loaches could squeeze between ...

One of my Clown loaches has a big scrape and chunk out of his tail my sister says this happens to hers all the time she has had them for 10 years it seems to be ok is there anything I should do help it not getting infected or sick from this I dont know what happened my sister says they hide and get ...

I have 3 kinds of loaches Clowns, golden zebra and Queen and they get along great