Loaches Online Forum

I've recently been hired on at my LFS and my new boss wants me to design and set up several biotope aquariums. He wants to represent the larger rivers and a couple lakes and I'd really like to include some loaches, but I have some very specific needs. The tanks I can work with are about 6~7' long, 1...

It took a while, but they have since recovered and moved on to a new home. I still don't know what happened, but they are back to normal and settled in with their new owner. This fiasco definitely cemented in my mind that my current living situation is not what these fish need to do well. I'll stick...

I like the shorter profile tanks too. :lol: The idea of growing bamboo sounds very interesting. So long as the leaves are out of the water, they are good, right? I may go for that...and yeah, they were intended to keep the nitrates down. I'll be keeping up my 2 weekly water changes, but I like havin...

I'm almost ready to set up my 60gal and am considering the options I have for the filtration. The tank is a drilled glass 60 gallon tank. (gift from the LFS and has a footprint of a 75gal) It will be housing my four Histrionica and either a group of Striata, or Kubotai (Yasuhikotakia Sidthimunki was...

Well, I kept up with the meds, water changes & daily food rotations and there has been a noticeable improvement in two of my loaches. One looks much less sunken in and the other (my largest) looks to be almost fully recovered. The other two are still very thin however they look a "little" less skele...

I would gladly soak the food as well, but the loaches only eat algae. I can't get them to even look at prepared foods. :roll: Luckily, the algae sits in the tank for a full day before I replace it (to make sure they get plenty fresh food while the hopefully recover) so it might be absorbing some of ...

I'll keep an eye out for white feces, but I hope that isn't it. Thank you for the link Menu.

I'm afraid it may be from the algae tank I have in my backyard.(it will be getting a 60% water change as soon as I am able to) It is a 50gal. tank in my backyard and has a 2" koi and 2" goldfish in it. They haven't shown any health problems, but it is possible that something got into the water that ...

A few months ago I got a group of Gastromyzon Ctenocephalus and one that I beleived was Gastromyzon Aeroides. They went through 2 treatments of Maracyn-Two due to concerns for Patchy disease and have been doing well ever since. I left for two days for a vacation and left them about a weeks worth of ...

Definitely a Damselfly. I looked up comparison pictures and there's no mistaking it. :D I don't have a pond personally, but I do have a semi-open top 50g out back with a pair of 2" goldfish. <-(hillstream loach algae farm) You all think that might work? I'd take a picture of it, but it's mostly tran...

So here I am, minding my own business and doing my bi-weekly water change when all of a sudden that innocent piece of plant matter moves away from the siphon. :shock: I yank my hand and siphon out in shock as I realize it is an unknown and probably creepy bug crawling around with my defenseless Gast...

Finished the treatment and the loaches have colored up beautifully and gained weight. :D I didn't realize how thin they were until I took a look at them today and saw how much weight they had gained. I give my thumbs up for the Saltwater Maracyn 2. The extra vitamin that stimulates appetite probably...

I finished the first treatment and six of my loaches are doing well. There are still some patchy areas, so I'm going for the full ten day treatment. I did loose one loach, though it wasn't due to the meds. One of my smaller Gastromyzon wedged himself between a few rocks and got stuck. I found him wh...

I'm glad that she is doing better. Wish there were some suggestions that I could give you, but I don't really know that much about clown loaches. I hope that she was just gravid and a little stressed about it. Is there any sign that she may have laid eggs anywhere in the tank?

I'm leaning towards thinking she is Gastromyzon Aeroides. http://www.aquariophil.org/html/gast_aeroides.html
She doesn't have the darker markings on her fins, but she might yet color up as she settles in. *crosses fingers*