Loaches Online Forum

I have been cutting 1/4" x 1/4" pieces of cucumber and poking a toothpick through them and down into the substrate to secure them to the bottom but they don't seem to be interested in it. how do you guys prepare cucumber for your loaches, how big of a piece? how do you secure it to the bottom? how l...

right now I am only feeding them flakes and sinking shrimp balls. I bought some dried bloodworms but they float and get caught in the plants on the surface and just rot so I'm not sure how to get them to sink. I'm looking for any ideas of what other food I can feed them. I want to diversify their fo...

I'm picking up 4-5 new yoyo's this week and I was wondering how everyone quarantines there loaches before introducing them to there display tank? I hear a lot of people does with flubendazole or levamisole but I cant find any info on how much to dose and for how long.

i will be going on 2 trips next month. first trip: leaving Wednesday night and returning sunday afternoon second trip: leaving Monday afternoon and returning sunday afternoon i take many trips where i leave Friday afternoon and return sunday afternoon and i haven't had any problems. i feed them righ...

how long should I keep them in my quarantine tank before moving them to my display tank? what (if any) medications should I treat them with? frequency and % of water changes in the quarantine tank (10 gallon)? i have 5 yoyo loaches (all approx. 2") and I'm looking into getting 3-5 more (around 1"). ...

I think I've decided. I'm going to move the 5 yoyo's to the 55 gallon, remove all the plants and add more bogwood and rocks for hiding places. I think the yoyo's will enjoy the sand substrate and having an entire tank to themselves. I also plan to get 1-3 more yoyo's. Now the hard part... catch them...

not doing clown loaches. maybe after I move next year.

First thing I need to do is figure out which tank to house the yoyo's in before I worry about tank mates. They are currently in the 75 with tetras and corys and there are no issues... but in a couple months when they get to 3"-4", there could be issues. And with how much they dig, I would have to mo...

So I should move all other fish to the 55 and keep ONLY yoyo's in the 75? I would think the 55 with sand substrate would better for a yoyo ONLY tank.

I currently have 5 yoyo loaches in my heavily planted 75 gallon community tank. they are all between 1.5"-2" I want to rehouse them sooner rather than later before they get too large. I set up a 55 gallon tank over the weekend that is about half planted at the moment. my question is, should I add 3 ...