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Just wondering, I have some yoyo loaches now in a planted tank with pool filter sand. Would loaches actually eat sand? I'm seeing my loaches dropping white particles as they swim which I can no longer see once they reach the sand and I've been seeing what looks like sand all over the top of my plant...

Clean water and good nutrition will go a long way towards helping a fish heal. I'm not surprised they had trouble catching the fish, staying stuck to a surface is what these fish have evolved for; more people need to know about the right way to net these fish. Anyway keep your nitrates to a minimum ...

Thought it was worth updating as to what is going on. I've been keeping a close eye on the main tank and have seen nothing wrong with any of the remaining fish. I took Bas' advice and moved some of the wood around, vacuumed underneath it and it didn't seem like there was as much broken down wood in ...

Good idea, I will survey all the fish to see if anyone else is showing signs. I had been thinking this has happened due to the initial injury to the yoyos mouth but worth a look to see if it's something else. I'm usually off a mind that tanks are full of bacteria of all sorts and keeping the tank fa...

Thanks for your advice! The instructions said 1 flat scoop of kanaplex per tablespoon of "food paste". So I measured a tablespoon of plain water, and crumbled in dried brine shrimp until it formed a wet paste. Then I mixed in the kanaplex and used a few pinches of repashy powder as a binder. The rep...

Managed to sneak up on him in the dark and get a picture of his mouth.

I have been monitoring this fish and the redness no longer appeared visible around his mouth so I thought he was improving. However he hides or rests constantly, and his mouth doesn't look right at all. I don't think he has cotton mouth but I am seeing more white than I should. Barbels seem to be in...

When I fed the yoyos today all six were out and about and begging for food. I have been feeding small or soft food so that the one with a sore mouth can still eat, and this seems to be working. He is still hiding a bit (after the food was gone) and seems to be hanging around near the filter, perched...

An update on Sad Yoyo, his mouth still seems to have a little bit of a red lining and he is definitely moping and hiding. I have seen him half heartedly eat and he seems to be wary of other fish (but less wary of me than of the other fish, strangely). I think he might have been in a fight or just hu...

Hi all! I'm hoping you can help me with a snap diagnosis on a sad yoyo loach. I noticed one of my yoyo loaches lolling at the bottom looking very unhappy as I was doing the rounds feeding my tanks today. His colour was darker than normal and he seemed to have something wedged in his mouth and his mo...

I had a call from the place I ordered the borneo sucker fish from and it turns out that they were completely out of stock. I'm not going to be able to buy fish again until next year - I've learned through bitter experience it is better not to try shipping fish through the Australian Summer so I'm on...

Thanks for the extra chemistry detail! It was my best subject at highschool but that is 20+ years ago now so it's been a bit of fun trying to relearn it to better understand what is going on in my tanks. I still consider myself to be a beginner fish enthusiast even though I've been keeping fish sinc...

I ended up pulling out my hoses and replacing them with rigid lines as the tubing had collapsed a bit and the flow was noticably reduced. I also had to do some maintenance on the HOB flow adjuster as it was allowing air to be sucked in which made the impeller slow down as it was struck by bubbles, s...

I've only seen ich once and my experience with it was the same. Any organisms already on the fish at the time you start treatment will still do that part of the lifecycle on the fish so to start with the cysts would be too small to see, then the fish looks worse and worse, until the cysts are done a...

Is it possible that Levamisole treated flake food could be the culprit in the deaths of all my yoyos over a weekend when clowns and silver dollars were not affected? The reason the flakes were fed was to treat a chronic problem with a skinny clown loach. The clown has not bulked up yet in the way I...