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Nice photos of beautiful fish! Thanks.

Pool filter sand is great. Just wash carefully before using and make sure your filter intakes are a few inches above the sand. It's easy to care for - I vacuum with a normal siphon, but by holding the tube at a 50-60 degree angle and with only part of it in the sand, the sand doesn't get sucked up. ...

Thanks for the tip, Emma.

This continent is just too darn big!! I hope you guys can pull this off!

Nice - I can get my striatas and kubotai to nibble on my hand (no it doesn't hurt) when I feed them freezedried tubifex, but otherwise they stay clear!

joesdiner457 wrote: eldest loach has been fond of laying at the bottom of the tank and then going into a quick roll similar to when an alligator bites his enemy and goes into the death roll. she can roll all over the entire tank.

That does NOT sound good to me!

Emma Turner wrote:That's a superb series of pics.

Ditto - and the coolest marks on a clown I have ever seen!

jwyfk wrote:Great pictures, bslindgren!

I think these fish are very curious and stealthy. They always come to the front of the tank to check me out. I will definitely miss them.

Thanks!

It gets scary when you guys can't agree! Thank goodness I have neither.....

I would stay clear of it. Some life stages of flatworms are quite well protected in various types of resting spores, so levamisole may not be able to get at them. Why take the chance when there are so many good food sources to be had!

Welcome (back)!

It must be certain individuals. I have ten of them and the incidences are rather few and far between. I've had them for a year and a half and three fish have lost an eye each. Other than that no problems at all. You are right, Shari, if they weren't so cute.....I do like them in every other respect!

Welcome to LOL. I'm glad that you got 24 years with the guy.

Ditto Emma's advice! Look forward to hearing about how it goes, pictures etc.

It's impressive that the fish seem relatively calm and of normal colour, so it obviously works well with these tanks. Great idea for getting species photos, for sure.

Thanks Emma.

I'm surprised nobody responded to this earlier. Knowing what I know now I would not add clown loaches to that size tank unless I had serious plans to upgrade later. And adding them to a tank with Jack Dempseys is probably not a great idea either, although a lot of people seem to keep cichlids and va...