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Thanks, Dojosmama. I think you are absolutely correct; it really did sound like air escaping, NOT a cry...and I don't feel quite so awful about the net anymore.
Again, thanks for the input!

"Acanthopsoides spp. are perhaps best thought of as dwarf cousins of the popular Acantopsis spp. aka horse-faced loaches, growing to just 5-6 cm in standard length. This video features an unidentified species, which we currently have listed as A. sp. 'A0' in our species database. " - Seriously Fish ...

I did a sneak attack at Petco and grabbed some water out of a guarami tank. Checked against our water at home (tank water). Ph within .2!! I was surprised. However, it also showed me that our ph is too high. 7.2 Going to get some peat to help knock it down... We have a pretty well planted tank, but ...

Someone recently suggested tearing the tank down and restarting. After losing a kuhli, the cardinals, and one of our dojos, with another following quickly in her footsteps today, I am inclined to agree. I can't move on it right now, since the poor dojo's have been through hell already this week (int...

Ouch! That is a HUGE DIFFERENCE In tank water!!!!

Indeed. Once was enough for me as well.

Cause I heard a horrid squeal while netting our dojo's back into the main tank yesterday. I thought it was air being squeezed out of their vents as they curled their bodies around in fear, but my husband thinks its more of a "help!" cry.
Either way. IT was horrid to hear

I lost 8 cardinals over the weekend. And a striped kuhli. Heartbreaking. Now I see that one of our golden dojos' tail is COMPLETELY eaten/rotting away. She was on her side on a nest of plants at the top of the aquarium; I saw her and she's now in a bucket with the two other dojos', who seem ok so fa...

Dojosmama, I had something similar a few months back with Fatso, our original golden dojo. She had what appeared to be complete paralyses, only her head was able to move. She was bent like a lazy L. She lasted like that for a couple of weeks! I wanted to put her down, but from asking others' on the ...

Well I can send you pictures of the dead ones. That would be 8 now. They all passed this weekend, except for three. No damage on bodies at all.
I knew I shouldn't have said anything about how great they were doing! =/ cursed em,.

Wow. Got 9 cardinals at a store a week or so ago; not one is sick, or dead. They're all thriving! Now we have a total of 11, a very nice little group, so bright and pretty in our big tank!

WHAT a great tank! I am just recently into rainbows. I (blush!) didn't like the way Bosmaini rainbows looked...thought they were ugly....hahahaha...well then I fell for some Praecoxs' once I could see them up close...now I'm dying to get a tank like *that one* and have a rainbow tank! Well. With a c...

Yep I am using all per directions; some are as small as four day treatments, some a bit longer....but here's the thing. I read last night about someone else having some neon tetra issues. Reading replies to that, I found a reference to Neon Tetra disease. I looked it up and the symptoms don't seem r...

Used Maracyn & Maracyn II in conjunction. No change. Tried another antibacterial, for the things that were NOT covered with these two. No change. Used A Fungal treatment which also had an antibacterial component for "secondary infections. No change. Tried another treatment, fungus elimanator. No cha...

I've got a couple of neons with cotton-like little growths' on their mouths, and one has his fins eaten away by the same thing (i think). We just got done nuking the tank with antibiotics, so it is NOT a bacterial. I'm guessing it's fungal. My rainbows have white lips but no growth, yet, so I need t...