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well i checked the botia striata fish today after work. the clamped fin striata is looking good. hes swimming around with the other fish, loachy dancing and the fins are out. ill probably do a 5 gallon water change tomorrow. then another wc in about 2 more days. im reluctant to treat until i can fig...

HELP AGAIN!!! I had to go out of town for 4 days. I had done a 20 percent water change before I left on my larger. I had this incident and separated my upside down catfish, my tiger pleco and my glass fish into my 20 gallon rostrata tank. when i got home tonight i noticed in my large tank that my st...

had to go out of town for 4 days. the loaches were fed well the day i left. then 2 days later they were fed well. fed them tonight. but i noticed one smaller striata of the bunch of 7 had clamped fins when i saw him. im doing a water change now and vacuuming the tank.

I always fast them one day week. Also, I have increased their amount of food when I feed.

This could definitely be the issue, I think I agree with the fish knowing something was wrong. The upside down cat had some fin rot several months ago and I am not sure if the other fish attacked the upside down cat in the past but his eye was bloody when i found him. I treated him for infection a f...

Sorry to hear it. The water stung? Like electricity? Did you check to see if you have a malfunctioning heater or filter? If that's not the problem, then perhaps the Quarantine procedure for the new fish wasn't sufficient enough. Most new loaches carry internal and external parasites that eventually...

yes that clicking is them. and i just had one of my oldest get killed in a fight. and then caught all my loaches eating my upside down catfish. sad...



definitely, when i put cucumber, watermellon or tomato its like a clicking machine gun lol..

its a 90 gallon there are plenty of hiding places. ive had some of these loaches upwards of 6 years with no problems. i only had that one incident where they killed all my corydora's. i don't know what caused all this violence. anyway, here is a link to a thread that has some videos with the tank in...

anyone seen this type of aggressive behavior?

So I moved my tiger pleco, my one glass fish, and my larger 3" upside down cat to my 20 gallon rostrata tank. I am just worried they will get eaten. I don't know how long this is going to last. I will keep my eyes on the loaches from now on. The 90 gallon now only has loaches in it. I may put a larg...

ive decided to take all my other fish out of the tank except any loaches. I think they may end up eating the rest of my fish now that they are getting bigger. several years ago i had 8 cories and the loaches ate 7 of them. i managed to save 1 but the cory ended up dying. is there any reason this beh...

I just had one of my 4.5" clowns die in about 30 minutes of finding him. Please see this thread. http://forums.loaches.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=22761 Today I saw all of my loaches(striatas and clowns) at the top of the tank tearing my upside down cat to shreds. they have lived with this fish since th...

RIP Spot. 4.5" measured. Had Spot since 2006-7. The icon in my avatar is Spot as a baby. After the loach passed or near the time of passing, the black stripes started to have a little discoloration like splotchiness. Could be coincidence but as I cleaned out the canister filters, i saw a small dead ...

I was going to move the loach into a separator tank and give a good dose of prime to detoxify any nitrates to see if it helps. I noticed as I was about to do this that on the other side of the loach, the spine in the eye was poking directly out. The loach is almost paralyzed so I am now thinking thi...

Everything was fine. I was eating breakfast, i hear loud sloshing in my loach tank. One of my oldest 3.5" loaches was sloshing back and forth violently on the top of the tank. i went over there and the loach just stopped moving and then fell to the bottom. I fished him out with the net and put him i...