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SOunds like what happened to mind four days before it died.

Well, the way this 4in dojo is going, he's gonna have a ten inch belly..lol. He's the first one to the top of the tank the second that flakes hit the water. I've seen him completely submerged under the substrate and its like feeding frenzy when the first flake hits the water. He's shed his skin so ...

My crayfish was safe with my weatherloach for a week or so. My brother's shrimp is HUGE and all the fish won't mess with it, either. Including my weather loach.

Three of my weather loaches died last night. The one I JUST got jumped out and I found him dried up behind my tank. The other two were lost to the final stages of ich(sorry, my dad's friend knows fish and he explained it was fungus, but it was ich). I have one weather loach left, and since he's alon...

Looks like it's spreading to my other fish. I put three fungi tablets in, and it turned my water bluish. I hope that's normal. Anyways, how long should this take? My fish can't even move anymore. He's just breathing.

First I lost Rarity to some unknown seizure causing suicide happening, now my biggest weather loach might be sick. There's white fuzz covering him, and it doesn't look like ich.

Help.

Another couple of questions:

How many weather loaches do I need to start a large family?

How many caves will I need for the answer to the above question?

How many weather loaches can I fit in a 30-32 gallon tank(don't know exact size). My 30 gallon is virtually empty now that the plecos are dead, the pacus have been given away, my goldfish is living happily with my brother's goldfish, and my algea eater is chilling with the pufferfish in my 10g. By t...

Sorry for your loss. The truth is that sometimes it is very hard to understand what is wrong, and sometimes, even knowing what is wrong, it is impossible to do anything. I hope you'll be able to find a new friend. I'm going to Petsmart after taekwondo to pick up a new fish. Sadly, there aren't many...

angelfish83 wrote:Sorry.

Its sad when you lose a pet you care about.
I cried when i lost my giant macrobracchian shrimp

I feel like crying, but I have taekwondo soon and I can't bother myself with it. Plus, my family will laugh at my for crying over a fish. Being laughed at is the last thing I need.

Thanks to everyone who tried to help, but I came back from school to find a lifeless orange weatherloach. I flushed her, said a few prayers, and cleaned the water out some.

R.I.P Rarity, 2003-2006

Melafix does cause this kind of reaction in kuhlis. In fact, I used it to make kuhli swim so I could catch them... Again, in kuhlis, such a large water change will often cause excessive swimming as the fish adjusts. Suspect the same is with dojos. Unless the fish hurts itself, it should slow down w...

(Checked your previous post) Hopefully, it is not high on melafix. Melafix works like PCP on some loaches and may even kill. Regardless, don't touch it. It is going to make it more nervous. Two things that may help: 1. Good water change -- especially if you have lots of melafix in it. 2. Close the ...

My weather loach must be messed up. It's trying to kill itself by slamming into the wall, jumping and hitting the tank top, and swimming into the wall. It is barely alive, and it only swims it bursts of freak-outs. Everytime it flips over, I move his tail some and he freaks out and jumps all over th...

angelfish83 wrote:What kind of fish is this?

Orange Dojo loach.