Loaches Online Forum

Well as the subject suggests... my temperature controller for my central system of about 1500 gallons had some kind of error and hasn't been heating the tanks. The tanks are running at 70F right now with clown loaches, sids, yoyo's, striatas. red tailed zebra loaches and some other loaches. In anoth...

How big are your big clowns?

Wonderful fish.

What all do you feed them and what temp do you keep your tank at?

What frozen foods do you feed your loaches and where do you purchase the food?

Probably wouldn't hurt to check it from time to time against a known source like a calibration solution, but you probably don't have any real reason to bother, given that we are not going for extreme precision, in a laboratory I can see the reason to be more concerned.

Just wanted to post an update. 2 clowns that previously did not show symptoms started to have symptoms. I was able to catch one of them and put him in Quarantine with prazi-pro and he died within 12 hours of being in quarantine. The loach that died did not show any redness in the gills or pectoral a...

To a large degree calibration doesn't matter that much for what we do. If one meter reads 150 and another reads 165 for the same solution for us it doesn't matter all that much. The biggest thing you look for is change in tds from what I can tell when dealing with fish tanks. For example TDS is norm...

How big are the clowns now?

Are there any tests that give you a better degree of accuracy? If your read my other posts, I'm changing my drip rate on my continuous drip system to try to resolve some issues... so I'm wondering if there is a good way to tell with a better degree of accuracy how much nitrates are in the water. We ...

What's the most accurate way to test for how much nitrates a tank has? I've used AP test kit for nitrates and I think it's fairly accurate.

Let me know what you guys think. I'm trying to figure out what's go on with my lochie friends.

Thanks.

2.5 gallons per hour is the current drip rate. I'm going to drop it to 1 gallon per hour and see how things go. Do you think I should add peat to the system to lower the ph or see if the lowered drip rate does the trick. When I had the post that Tinman posted on I was up to 10 gph so I have dropped ...

I lost another clown, this clown showed the same symptoms except the gills were not red while he was alive or even after death.. just lethargic with rapid breathing and eventual death. From the time I noticed him to death was probably a week. I also got a new ph/tds/EC/temp meter from Hanna. The met...

What do you think about using peat to lower the ph from 7.6 maybe 7.8 (my fancy ph meter was just delivered today so I haven't had a chance to mess with it yet) to around 7, if the KH of the water is 3. My concern is peat drops ph and kh... and since the kh of the water is 3, will the peat drop the ...

Contacted someone I know at the water company and chloramine is not used at all only free chlorine. I use two carbon blocks to remove chlorine. These blocks are good for around 40,000 gallons, I change them out around 10,000 gallons of water used. Also I have changed them out within the last 2 weeks...

Aquarium Pharmaceuticals Freshwater Master Test Kit is what I use and it's new within the last couple of months. Plus this setup has around 50 gallons of bio balls and 6 sponge filters and several e-heim canisters for filtration. I would hope ammonia isn't an issue. It is possible 10 months ago when...