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Thank you for this. All my previous research has suggested 10-20% weekly is optimal, and that larger water changes (over 50%) are dangerous. I'd love some insight on this from your perspective. In much sadder news, when I awoke this morning my ill barb was much worse, upside down and listless...

Thank you very much for all the helpful advice. To answer the above: Amonia: 0 Nitrite: 0 Nitrate: ~25 mg/l pH: 6.8 Weekly water changes, roughly 10%. I clean the gravel occasionally, maybe monthly. Filter cleaned weekly with water changes. I have had an increase in mulm (and snails) since...

Thanks so much for your reply. I hadn't even thought of bacterial. Interesting about the columnaris.. the injury isn't flat or flush to the body, rather lifting and flaking. Could this still be the case? And if so, could it explain the strange flight behaviour of the other two females? Would...

I have had a shoal of Drape Fin Barb (oreichthys crenuchoides) for over two years and they are fantastic. It's been wonderful watching them grow up. I started with three males and three females, but have lost two females recently and under strange circumstances. They have always seemed happy...

Thanks Deanasue for your help. Quick update, the two little fry are getting bolder each day, and after a couple close calls I decided I had to intervene — not to mention their increasingly curious attitude would finally make catching them possible. I managed to net them one at a time and...

Hi freshwater fans, Brand new to this forum and hoping to get some much-needed advice. I have a heavily planted 70l community tank containing six Drape Fin Barbs (three males and three females), four male guppies, three dwarf corydoras, and a pleco. Everyone gets along famously, and I was happy...