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Shouldn't the UV light take care of all bacteria? Or should I go ahead and remove my filtration to apply medicine? UV will not remove all bacteria. They have to pass the system to be eliminated. What makes you think you should be using medicines without proper diagnosis yet? Meds can harm your fish...

@clownloachfan What area exactly? I think that pictures 2 and 3 should show what you are talking about. I would be happy to take any more pictures that you need. @chefkeith I have been doing water changes about once every 3 weeks. The two that died were getting sick durring this time. I recently did...

Ok, so I have had my loach tank running for about a year and a half now. I recently upgraded the filter because two of my loaches got sick and died. They started getting verry skinny and had red gills and were swimming at the top (trying to get more oxygen i think). Before they died they had dropsy ...

Does he still have spots? Could be he was just rolling to rub them, rather than flashing? They do like to lounge about. As long as otherwise he seems normal it doesn't sound like a balance issue, more like he did it deliberately. The one that was rolling over didn't have any spots that I could see....

brett_fishman wrote:loaches lie on their sides sometimes, and thats normal.

I completly agree. But is a full 360 barrel normal? I have never read anyhting about that.

Hey, if you have read a bit of my introduction post you can get pretty much all the information you need about me. Here is the deal. My clowns have a very mild case of ich so i am treating them wiht "super ich cure" whitch contains malachite green. It is at about 45% doseage and folowing all instruc...

If the meds are working then the clowns will be more active, and you will stop seeing the spots Well, there do apear to be less spots, and the loaches are alot more hungry. So I'll supose its still working. I'll do a 50% water change before the next does of meds. They are still flashing pretty hars...

poeticpyro wrote:my alpha is CONSTANTLY greyed out!

Thanks for the reasurance! Does anyone know how the loach hiearchy affect their colors? Is darker less dominant and grey more? Does it even go in order?

I don't like using chemicals at all Hmm, I don't realy like the idea of chemicals either. But then again I don't like parasite poping into my loaches and eating out their insides either. I don't have much salt in the tnak now... I could increase it. But i have already started the chemicals so perha...

Thanks to a facebook tool created by some genuius, I am able to easily upload some pics on to flikr, so here are some pics of the ligting i was tlaking about. Also, I would like it to be noted that I dont always have theose lights on, and that a few have been removed for technical reasons. Also, i h...

malachite green is light-sensitive I believe. Light sensitive in what way? Do I want to have the florecent light bulb on more or less often? I plan to do weekly water changes as well. Mabey after a few months whn everything settles down Ill go to 2 depnding on chemical readings. Thank you for you p...

f you do use salt, you need to crank up the temp to at least 82, to get rid of the ICH. When you don't see anymore spots, back off of the salt, do water changes, but leave the temp up for a couple weeks. I have the temp at a steady 85f and it has been like that seince the second day of ich. First d...

I'm not familiar with the filter that you are using I am useing a puinguin 330 thingy. http://www.lilviv.com/pets/fish/commtank/330fil1.jpg It along with all the bubleators I have provide a good water flow. (When putting in the green stuff to cure ICH it took about 30 seconds for the whole tank to ...

helen nightingale wrote:as in general bottiine type loaches (including clowns) come from fast flowing rivers/streams on mountains rather than rivers that are influenced by the sea

Thats a good point, I'll start phasing it out in 2 days with my next water change.

possibly reconsider the magical properties of salt too. it isnt as magical as its cracked up to be, in my opinion I have been hearing that alot about clown loaches. The last thing I want is more stress upon them. I think I am going to seriusly debate future water changes with no salt. The people wh...