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Just a short video to provide an update on the 6 clowns that were given to me by a LOL'er All are fat, healthy, and beggy as ever.

http://s395.photobucket.com/albums/pp40 ... I_1185.flv

Yeah... I think I just need to watch it more closely. No new sick loaches today, and the yoyo and the modesta from yesterday are still alive and looking better, though they are a little deformed and maybe not eating yet. Hopefully the Furan-2 killed whatever bacteria might have gotten in there. I'm ...

The last time it was broken down and completely bleached out was about a year ago. I'd had the tank for about a year before that, and I bought it used, so beyond two years, I don't really know.

It's difficult to say. I wish this is all the issue was, but the tank had a soil-like smell to it, nothing rotten or otherwise fishy/bad. The horseface in there does some stirring in the sand, and usually I will stir it when I do a water change. Also, it seems odd to me that fish are going one at a ...

No fumes, no kids, toxic products accidentally placed in the tank. Water reports have been stable over the past year with very small trace amounts of fertilizers and cyanide. The tiger loach had been Quarantined, and the yoyos were in the tank for about 3 weeks without problems until now. The other ...

Looks to me like some sort of an infection, but it could also be ammonia burns.... I don't know if there's any sort of internal problem that would cause fish waste to become extra toxic, but if so, it may be a possibility. My first step would be to treat for an external bacterial infection, unless s...

The ammonia may have spiked due to a recent addition of fish, but there's a smaller canister filter and a Magnum 350 on this tank. I since neutralized all the ammonnia to about 0-0.25 ppm but fish that were normal yesterday when I reached this level are dying now.

Won't anybody help me? I'm down two yoyos, the tiger loach, and now the other yoyo and smallest modesta are spazzing out spinning circles and dying. Yesterday the ammonia was high at about 4 ppm and the nitrate was almost off the chart at 80-160 so I changed out much of the water, about 70%, and ret...

Well, it's been a long year since I had any major epidemics in 72g, but now I'm getting seriously worried again. About a month ago, I bought 3 yoyos, 1 red tail shark, and 4 otocincluses and added all but the shark into the 72g. They have all been getting fatter and are active, but two days ago one ...

Salt, huh? I haven't heard about that before, used in that way. When I moved my fish long distance, I had mild tranquilizers for fish added to their water. It was a good thing I used them, because the fish were in plastic bags for a total of 15 hours (my flight, including layovers).

Yes, I think I agree. The carbon must be the thing that's leeching stuff into the water. Maybe something in this city water activated the inert chemicals? And maybe they weren't activated back home, where a different water supply was available? Zinc does sound very likely. I was reading what you pos...

The Black Diamond was working well for a while. I think this new stuff is causing the problem. Anyhow, it's worth looking into. You can thank my mother for coming up with this possible cause

Yes, the salt was successful, but it wasn't a permanent solution as I hoped. It seems it purged the spots from the slime coat, but it only treated the symptom, and not the cause. It's certianly worth some study. But if you still have the spots, take out all your carbon and see if that helps. If it d...

Stress behaviors in fish are, definitely, very hard to see. I don't know if any of this will be helpful because it's just based on observation, and the fact that I've had many of my loaches for 6-12 years. I've had to move a lot with my fish in the past few years. I moved them from tank to tank in t...

Hello, and welcome. I've kept clowns for many years, along with other people on these forums. A 55g is a good tank to start with for clowns, especially if you get a group of 3-5 of them. They take a long time to grow, so you'd have about 2-3 years before you'd have to upgrade the tank. A 200g would ...