New tank

Amylouise1305 said:

Deformed how so?
The 2 males aren’t fighting, they don’t leave each other’s side

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the tail looks wierd

Amylouise1305 said:

The blue one has 2 lumps of some kind too. Do you know what they are?

sorry for all the questions.

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Could be a tumor.

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Also when she goes up for air bubbles come out of her gills. Is this normal? With the other 2 this doesn’t happen.

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should be fine.

Amylouise1305 said:

Also when she goes up for air bubbles come out of her gills. Is this normal? With the other 2 this doesn’t happen.

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Gouramis are labyrinth fishes and can breath air from the atmosphere. It is common for gouramis and Bettas to take air from the surface and sometimes they have bubbles coming out under the gill covers.

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Check the water quality for ammonia, nitrite, nitrate and pH.
Do a 75% water change and gravel clean the substrate any day you have an ammonia or nitrite reading above 0ppm, or a nitrate reading above 20ppm.

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Don't add any more fish to the tanks and don't move fish around until you know what the water quality (ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, pH) is like.

If you have mollies, check the general hardness (GH). Mollies need a GH of 250+ppm and a pH above 7.0.

This information can usually be obtained from your water supply company's website or by telephoning them. If they can't help you, take a glass full of tap water to the local pet shop and get them to test it for you. Write the results down (in numbers) when they do the tests. And ask them what the results are in (eg: ppm, dGH, or something else).

Fab, thank you!! I’ll try phoning them tomorrow!

and the other loaches are Botia lohachata (dwarf Pakistani loach).

One of the Pakistani loaches seems to be quite a bit larger than the other two and losing its colourings. Does this mean she could be due to lay eggs?
Also I managed to get a photo of the clown loach!

The bigger loach is probably female. They are pale because you have a bright tank with no plants and no picture on the back. If you put a picture on the back of the tank it will help, as will some plants, especially floating plants.

I’m off to the shops today to get a few bits for the tank and a picture for the back, it had one on but for obvious reasons it went in the bin because it was foul!