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After having had this snail explosion, I got to wondering a couple of things. I did not leave out any more food than what I would normally use , but with the lights dimmed, would the fish and loaches reduce their metabolisms and be in a different mode? Maybe this is silly because I know fish don't r...

Absolutely beautiful! I wonder how you have taken such clear and close pictures through an aquarium glass. These photos belong in a book!

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Thanks again for the great information!! I will certainly try some of these tricks! I read once about the cucumber trick, but had forgotten about it. This sounds like a very good idea. I would certainly not use tetradontidae , as they would not get along with my other fish. My 10-year-old daughter i...

Thank-you...that is very interesting. I have heard of assassin snails, but didn't realize the target of their assassinations was other snails. Perhaps I will give this a try before resorting to more drastic measures. I was hoping someone would recommend a natural cure to this problem, because I woul...

Hello... I have returned from vacation for a week to find all my loaches and fish alive and well...but now I have so many snails I don't know what to do. In this tank, I have pangios but no other loaches. I'm thinking this happened because of the lack of light while I was away, since I left the ligh...

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I have never kept clown loaches before, so I can't give advice in that department, but I just wanted to say welcome to the forum!

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Hello.., I am by no means an expert on the subject, but given the fact that many fish are bred in captivity, this doesn't surprise me. Orcas kept in captivity develop a "bent over" dorasl fin, but you never seem to see it in the wild. No-one really knows why this is. Even if you look at humans, you ...

I'm so glad you found a little buddy for him! My smallest dojo I bought at Petcetera. I have been mostly unimpressed with the place, but when I saw they had black kuhlis in with a single baby weather loach and goldfish, and were labelling them all as weather loaches, I couldn't help myself. I told t...

Hello... That doesn't sound so good, plaster leaching into the water-yikes! :shock: I'd rather not feed them at all if those were my options. I got the Tetra gel ones from my favourite LFS. The owner is very knowledgeable and helpful, and he recommended them. It is sad to see him struggling to stay ...

Yeah, I found the plaster ones made me feel very uneasy. The ones I did buy are the Tetra ones, but I got a friend to feed the fish instead. I put the food in small containers, mixed some of each type for the surface and bottom feeders, so all she has to do is dump one in every other day or so. If I...

Hello again... I hope your little guy is settling in. I'm sure he is entirely relieved to be out of that horrible place he was in before. In my experience dojos are very aware of what is going on around them. I have also read they are more likely than some other fish species to be mistreated because...

Hello... I watched the video, and though those are definitely not the same as the creatures I have in my tank, it was very interesting! The way they move indeed seems very similar to terrestrial fleas. When I lived in BC a friend of mine's house got infested by them from the pets, and boy can they j...

Hello... Welcome to the forum, and to the world of Loach Keeping! I am also the owner of weather loaches, and they continue to be my favourite of all the fish I have. I now have three of them, they are three, five, and six inches long. The two large ones I got first, and they both eat out of my hand...

I'm very sorry to hear about the deaths of your loaches :cry: I am prettymuch a beginner myself, so I don't have much to say in the way of disease, except that I'm really not sure what could be the killer. Sometimes starting over can be just as bad as not, because every time you do all the cleaning,...

Thanks for the replies! I am definitely beginning to learn how important it is to quarantine. I don't know about you, but when I first began, I was so excited to get new fish I could hardly help myself! But at the stage I am now, the desperation seems to be passing, and there is no reason I shouldn'...