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Do you have enough for the plecos to eat? I usually give mine apples, lettuce, potatoes or peas.

Rinse the sand well, very well or you'll regret it.

Salt wont harm them, I've used it with every water change.

Loaches. Grab some clown loaches.

I made my own CO2 reactor and I have it going into my powerhead. The plants seem to react very well to it. HTH

Agreed

Put your plants in clay pots filled with aquatic soil. That should solve the root problem. You could have a layer of aquatic soil then sand.

Once in a Great while i'll get a pocket they miss. Its a good preventitive medicine. It has to take all of what..a minute and a half? I'll take that over a week of removing the haze in the water any days. Like they say, and ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

You may get more activity out of you raphael if you have more than one. They like groups of their own kind.

Plants with large root systems will help, but not all of the tank.. So long as you have an eel maybe get another. Remember sand can and does drift into deeper piles depending on your circulation.

I also have plants and I need to stirr. AS A PRECAUTION I stir daily. Every few days would be ok. I really would go with cory cats. They cover a lot more ground than just an eel.

I have cory cats, malasian trumpet snails and the like to turn the sand over. I also stirr the sand on a daily basis.

Cory cats will really help in a sand tank.

You usually need a piece of cloth to make a tight fit. With a divider you can"grow out the fry " by feeding them a lot more often than the parent fish. My bichie...p. sengalus..is on the safe side of a divider. he gets fed twice daily where as the others get fed every 2nd or 3rd day. This should...

When you say food do you mean algae? Mystery snails(most of the time its not a mystery and a variety of apple snails)aren't well know fo eating algae. Try feeding it lettuce or cucumber. In short, they might be starving.

Great tip on the cucumber!! Bloodworms ALWAYS bring my spotter R out. try that. Raphael's are gluttons. Once you find there favorite food you should have no problem getting him to come out for a feeding/pic.

E cats are to slow to eat anything but food from the bottom. Sorry, but it looks nothing like a channel cat. More like a big sausage with a mouth and fins. The fish is nocturnal and given a proper hiding spot, you would be lucky to just see it eat. It will on very rare occasion go to swim around...

Couldn't he use a tank divider? That would solve the relocation problem and reduce shock to the fish due to moving them. B)

How about a peacock eel Macrognathus siamensis I believe there from south east asia, but there interesting, but be careful, they casn be evil!!!

Tie some java moss to driftwood. Always a favorite of mine.

My tanks are over filtered with a power head hidden in some plants to stir any crap up and it then drifts to a filter, no more problem.

I personally use play sand but everyone is different. Buy the bags of sand and put the sand one bag at a time into a five gallon bucket. Place a hose into it and watch as the veru fine crap flats away. Stir the sand often and dont stop until the water is clear. A good rule of thumb is" when you...

I personally use play sand but everyone is different. Buy the bags of sand and put the sand one bag at a time into a five gallon bucket. Place a hose into it and watch as the veru fine crap flats away. Stir the sand often and dont stop until the water is clear. A good rule of thumb is" when you...

Home depot has the best prices on pvc. I bought a bunch of 8 inch t's and angled t's for about four dollars a piece. Drain pipe is also good and its always black to make it darker for them.

The reason for this is their lack of a air blatter.

Its normal. They gulp air when they go to the surface which makes them more bouant IE makes it easier to swim.

Try romaine lettuce, frozen spinach, peas my plecos love these. They prefer it.

It is odd that he hasn't moved. I just purchased an albino pleco and he is very active. Try to introduce new food such as romaine lettuce, peas that sort of thing to motivate him to atleast eat. Ive had fish that never acclimated correctly so be careful. Do you have a hiding place for it to go...

Do you have an airline on one end or two, ill bet you have the air pump on both ends.do you?

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How big is your tank? how often do you do water changes? Do you use a vaccum to clean your gravel?

Sorry for your loss.

Turn it to the high 80's, ick cant candle the heat.Imo, you should do a massive water change after the problem is corrected.Do you use feeders for your fish? if so that may be the source for your ich. Some lfs have really dirty feeder tanks. Do you have a hospital tank?

Ive found that a sand substrate may be ideal for snails and clams. the debris will float around on the surface of the sand by way of my filters( a proquatics 1600 and a large tetra over the wall)before being sucked in to the filters.I realize many dont have a setup such as this but my two snails...

a good plant place

Beautiful fish! :kewlpics: