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That is highly likely, thank you, her new spot is over near the bubbler in my tank (it agitates the water and causes more surface area at the surface helping to increase oxygenation). If that is the case as long as I put a slate cave over there she should be fine.

Ya, my hillstream loach will ram a yoyo if it swims up to look at her, but I think that the yoyo´s are starting to get the message ¨don´t introduce yourself the the spotted flat fish behind the up pipe¨. 😊

Oddly my Hillstream loach, ever since the yoyos got put in the tank, has changed her ¨turf¨. She used to stay in her cave now she is on the back wall behind a up pipe from the under gravel filter. I honestly have no idea why she did this other than she and the knuli´s and Dwarf Chain loach were...

I think with my hillstream loach its just that she is not social and yoyos are, she does not like that they invade her space. And unfortunately I am doing all that ¨I¨ can do, my parents do not want a bigger tank and does not want to spend more money, I don´t even ask for more than fish food for...

Here is the problem, I only have a 30 gallon tank, I have had problems with aggressive fish before and they were brought back to a fish shop immediately. At the moment they seem to be doing well, if anything my chain loach is annoying the female yoyo. I do greatly appreciate your insight, but...

Ya at this point I am going to go with they will eat when they get hungry enough. But in case they do become too thin I have a back up plan. I have just put a few of the remaining snails in a glass vase with a lid and they can breed so that there will be more snails just in case.

Ok thank you so much.

So all of them are peaceful, and because my chain loach is apart of the botia family and so are my yoyos they are social, and actually my chain has been hunting along side the yoyos, odd behavior but it seems to have no ill effect on him.

Ok ya the pellets are about half the size of a pea, and my yoyo loaches are 4 inches long so I figured it would be ok. What brand of food, and what type do you feed your clown loaches?

yes, because corys will dig throw any sand or gravel you put in so you are going to want a good lair of it, and that amount of hardscape is going to make that difficult.

So about two days ago I got two yoyo loaches to add to my tank. My dwarf chain loach had always just eaten the snails in my tank, but when I added the yoyo´s by the end of the day there were no snails yet. The problem is that I have attempted to thus feed my dwarf chain loach (who I have had for...

Here is another question. Do they have loaches?

They may be stressed because they do not have enough hiding places. Also have you SEEN them eat?

I wanted to update everyone that helped me and brainstormed ideas of what it could be. It did turn out to be my GH, which was 3, my water was too soft for live bearing fish. This did explain why my loaches are healthy and happy. All of my live - bearers have been brought back to my local fish...

Thank you so much I will have to look, odd question but can fish withstand a difference of one when it comes to pH because my waters pH runs around 7.4 almost all the time but most soft water fish require 6.5.

That was the plan that I made with the fish guy at the private fish store I now go to after the severe disease issues from my local petsmart. I will be bringing in my remaining live bearers so they do not die just because of the water parameters, and then we are going to just try ¨soft¨ water...

It got tested for ammonia, nitrates, nitrites, pH, GH and KH I do not know the numbers for ammonia, nitrates, nitrites other than they were perfectly normal, the pH was 7.4, the KH was really high at 9 and the GH was 2-3. So basically my pH will not change a lot because my kH is so high and I...

So I went to my local fish shop and talked to a guy who is actually going to college for Ichthyology and he asked me questions and tested my water. All of my water parameters were good. I also mentioned the sulfur so of the remaining water from my tank that I had brought we capped it of and...

I can not smell it but my friends can which is probably because they have not grown up around it

I had considered fish TB but if that was the case would that not affect the fish quite fast.

I have treated the tank twice with prazi pro as I thought it was parasites as well as two treatments of metro plex. As for the sulfur it is possible although I would have to say sulfur is a acid and thus I would think that my water would not be basic if the sulfur was in high levels.

enough sulfur that people say it smells like eggs of course I cannot smell it because I have lived with it my whole life. The fish stop eating and then become lethargic and then they develop rapid breathing, some get fin rot and then they die (of course this usually happens after their spine...

I do now know the ammonia, nitrite or nitrate levels as I have no way of testing it as my father thinks you do not have to because he never did. The pH is 8. The filter is a whisper filter and it is on the side of the tank and at the moment is cleaned daily as a way of removing algae from the...

I set up my dads 40 something year old 30 gallon fish tank back in December of 2023. All of the gravel and rocks were also my fathers and were sanitized using boiling water before placed in the tank. The tank only ran for about 2 weeks before I got fish a beginners mistake I was way to excited...