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What would you expect the lifespan of botia kubotai and Botia Rostrata to be?

I have a portable TDS meter, I guess I've never used it as such a good indicator as it obviously can be.

Thanks, I'll let everyone know how things are going.

Food wise, I feed them everything from a decent flake food, to sinking carnivore pellets to shimp pellets to some freeze dried blood worms and salad shrimp from the supermarket cut up finely and algae wafers... and a few other foods but I can't remember off hand. I try to keep a variety of foods goi...

Is TDS a decent way to monitor water quality?

I will turn down the drip rate as you suggested and see if things improve.

Meanwhile I am ordering a master test kit and we will see what my results are.

Last fish was added roughly 6 months ago, deaths started around month and a half ago. I highly doubt anything is leaching into the tanks since it's all standard schedule 40 pvc and all aqarium purchased ornaments and so on that I've had for well over a year in some cases many years. I'm just wonderi...

Absolutely no visible signs on the fish can be observed, plus the fish seem to act fine prior to death.

So in your opinion Aquarium Pharmaceuticals should be good enough.

Thanks.

All of the fish in my tanks are acting fine with no visible problems. Over the last 6 weeks or so, I've lost 7 clown loaches that I've had for probably 6 months or more. They all we around the 3 to 3.5 inch mark with no visible issues noticable on the body's. So I thought it might be smart to get so...

I have a fairly complicated setup. I have two 265 gallon tanks and one 220 gallon tank, all connected to a central system. The sump is a 150 gallon horse trough with at least another 50-100 gallons of water in the plumbing of the tanks. So, all in all I probably have 1,000 gallons of water total. Wa...

The real question is what brand of test kits do people seem to like, there seems to be a few so it's hard to decide which is the best.

I have a fairly large group of clowns of varying age, over the last couple months I keep losing random clown loaches but no other fish.

So, What type of test kits do you find in the US that I should buy to help pinpoint the issue, providing there is an issue.

Thanks.

I used google to try to roughly translate that website and this is what it said in regards to size and age of parents.

7-8 years old
12-13 cm

How many little ones are in the that photo? How big are your little guys?

Cleveland Ohio essentially. Really Medina but close enough.

Where is this Elmers place you mentioned?

How much in the US would you expect to pay for 6 inch clown loaches if you could find some?

chefkeith - how do you manage to pump 1.5 gallons per hour in your continuous drip setup?