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Wow! These are stunning fish - thanks for sharing your photos.

Sounds like a non-starter then, Mick. I guess the medications and whether you can get them are different in each country.

Go easy on the walking stick and pegging out theme ... it's a bit too close to home at my time of life!

Cheers

Mark

Thanks, Diana. I found Shari's article and now have a better understanding of how wormers work. I am hoping to buy some Striatas from my LFS today or tomorrow so I will need the Flubenol. By 'antibiotics' do you mean stuff like anti-velvet? I wonder whether it would be worth having a stickie on how ...

Thanks Diana and Mick. It sounds like I should leave well alone with my existing Clowns. I intend to move them to a bigger tank and add other loaches, so with the new fish that is when I'll use the wormer, in quarantine. Diana, I didn't realise that the worms have to be treated in stages, I assumed ...

I have purchased some Wormer Plus from Plymouth Discus thanks to a reference from tender - thanks. The shop's website suggests using the product every month for discus. It says it can be added to tanks with no negative consequences for filters, plants etc. I have six healthy Clown Loaches who are fe...

IKEA LEDs Not sure if anyone has mentioned these before, but IKEA in the UK do a range of LED strips called ‘Dioder’. These are pricey - £29 each - but use hardly any power once installed, and create a nice low-light twilight effect. I have two strips, and they come on before the fluorescents in the...

Fascinating videos and information - your set-ups have given me much food for thought!.

Thanks very much for keeping us up-to-date with developments.
Mark

Wow! Great tank, great fish! You must love watching all the variety and colour you have there.

Mark

Absolutely superb photos.

Thanks for sharing ... you've convinced me that I need to get some of these guys!

Mark

Thanks for these wonderful pictures, Marcos.

Your fish are inspirational.

Thanks once again for your helpful advice, Diana.

A foot of tank to an inch of fish is the sort of arithmetic I like - not too hard to remember! It means my Clowns need to grow another inch before I need to consider changing my tank, unless one of Ashleigh's eBay bargains pops up.

Cheers, Mark

Hi Ashleigh, Thanks for the advice. I didn't lay out my information as clearly as I could - my Clowns are only three inches. The fact that no-one has advised me to upgrade with 3" fish suggests to me that I don't need a bigger tank for a few years yet - maybe until they reach 4" or 5" or so. It does...

I have a 48x15x18, 47 UK gallon/ 212 litre tank. I have six three-inch Clowns and I am beginning to wonder if the tank may be too small for them. I have read on this forum that keeping Clowns in too small a tank stunts them, with bad consequences for their health and life expectancy. At what size wo...

Hi Rubix,

These pictures are now on the forum under the heading' Clown Loach photos over two years'.

Cheers

Mark

Hi Auntsally,

Thanks for your comment.

This is BD Aquarium sand - they have it at my local LFS including a 25kg bag which works out cheaper.

Cheers

Mark