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Hello, I would appreciate some timely advice. Believed to be my oldest and best looking clown loach is gasping for air constantly these past few days. Everyone else in the tank is fine. It is a community tank. Info: Water quality is perfect 79 degrees Recently battled ick with API Super Ick Cure Car...

Update:

I have one dosage left in the bottle, if that, for a total of 5ish dosages. A couple days ago I raised the temp from 86F to 88.5F.

Could this help?

I did a nice gravel vac and rearranged the tank a bit. The fish seem to enjoy the new layout. It's been about 9 days into the heightened temperature of 86F. I plan to extend the treatment and do a 4th dosage today after work. All fish are eating and swimming fine. There is still ich on the loaches. ...

I still have the air stone on the left side of the tank where the filter is. The agitated surface doesn't quite reach the far right side of the tank, but I believe the tank is properly oxygenated... It's been one week since I slowly raised the temperature to 86F, and Wednesday I completed the third ...

They can definitely identify the pellets; they just are uninterested. I did an experiment and threw the older food in, such as flakes, freeze dried blood worms, and sinking shrimp pellets. They went crazy over the freeze dried blood worms and all five came to the surface to eat them (and clicking)! ...

My 4(ish) year old blue gourami and bolivian ram basically eat anything I throw in the tank. Ever since I purchased New Life Spectrum garlic pellets my fish will not eat it besides these two fish. My clown loaches patrol for food all the time and skip over these pellets. How do I get them to eat the...

Hi everyone, I'm going through my first experience of an ich outbreak. :( I've raised my temperature to 86F over the course of a couple days, and spent money on a large airstone. I also purchased the ich medicine stated in the thread title. I believe it to be very new, as there is not a lot of info ...