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did the color change start in patches and then go full body, or one day did they just appear fully white? Any pigment change in the eyes? Other fish in the tank are doing fine? Any recent changes in diet, lighting, environment?

my loaches live in a tank that is split between pea gravel and sand. on the sand side loaches always wiggle around and kick sand everywhere until their cave is just right. on the gravel side, you can often see the larger yoyos and clowns picking up individual pieces of gravel and moving them to neat...

cracking the snail shells will help them learn that they are delicious snacks and give them drive to go after them on their own. keep it up for a while so they all get a chance, and then you wont be able to stop them. also, a powerhead and more hiding places will get them to come out more, and there...

The kubs could live in a 4 foot tank, but clowns, especially 13 of them, will need more space. I have never owned pictus cats but I have heard mixed things about their temperaments. IMO they would be fine with medium-large clowns, but would pick on the kubs. Also, the pictus will grow very large, qu...

to me, it looks most like homaloptera stephensoni, but it could be one of the other variegated elongate

I normally just stick a bucket outside and fill it with the hose; change it out daily until the water doesn't turn as brown, then swap it into the tank. a little bit of tannin soaking out of the wood isnt bad for the fish either; more of an aesthetic issue.

If i dump a bag of 50 ghost shrimp into my community tank with clowns, yoyos, darios, kubs, horsefaces and various pangios, there will only be a couple of the biggest and smartest shrimp left after a week.

the yoyo shouldn't be living alone, or with anything that will nip at it. If you are going to house it with fish fast and aggressive enough to chase it down and chomp on it, at least give it hiding places. a 2.5 is waaaaay to small for a single yoyo anywhere near full grown. Yes the fish needs to be...

i agree with star, try to get the burnt portions off of the wood, and then let it soak in some tank, rain or dechlorinated water. if it doesn't leech into the water too badly, go ahead and use it. Over boiling it, if anything, would have killed every last critter in the wood, so its probably fine.

It has been a couple days, and no one else has died. Parameters stayed normal, and all the fish still look fine. I wonder if one fish died naturally, and the other fish got sick from picking at it? I already miss my dwarf pleco darting all over the tank

How long have these fish been together? Were the larger Clowns recently added because their larger tank leaked? They might be the culprits. All of the fish currently in this tank lived in the larger one, and the older clowns started showing the aggression before the move. The smaller clowns have li...

I woke up yesterday and my 5 year old bulldog pleco was dead. No discoloration on the skin or gills, no bloating, no odd spots/patches, etc. Everyone else looks fine. Last night before I go to bed I'm checking on the fish, and find a small clown loach dead. He was quarantined with 6 others for almos...

I wonder if anyone here knows if any type of pleco that is carnivorous would be a threat to my fish. Some have said they've never known a pleco to go after live fish, but I want to be sure it won't hurt my loaches and other fish before I get anything. My large plecos, 9" and 11", will suck up baby ...

I have four at the moment. My large standard and albino sailfin plecos were great algae eaters when they were younger, but eventually learned they could eat fish food. They will still occasionally graze the softest green algae that grows around the tank, but not much else. My bulldog pleco (L187b) i...

my horseface loaches eat sinking carnivore pellets, flake food, and frozen food like all my other loaches; the easier it gets to the very bottom of the tank, the more likely they'll get the chance to eat it before someone else does. mine are quite shy in general, so you may rarely see them eat, but ...