Khuli Loach

[kuzyaburst]

So I bought 2 khuli loaches (was planning on getting 6, but they sold out) and it has been one day since I put them in the tank... one of the Khulis is active and enjoys swimming around the second Khuli I have seen since last night, he doesn't come out and I don't even know where he is hiding. Should I be worried about this behavior? My local fish dealer is getting a shipment of Khuli's this week so I should be able to get more, but i'm worried because I cannot find him. I'm at the point that I'm thinking of just pulling out all of the ornaments until I find him in one, it's stressing me out but I have decided to see if he would come out for feeding or whenever I turn the lights off. If he doesn't then i'm just going to have to look for him, because I don't have any fish that could possibly hurt him/ eat him, so I don't know what happened to him he just started hiding. I know that Khuli loaches need more members so they could play and stuff and that's probably why he is hiding but it doesn't make sense... one of the Khuli's is swimming around finding new rest spots and stuff, and the other went hiding in some unknown place. If you need my water parameters and species names in my tank here they are,
 
36 gallon tank: pH-7.8, soft water, Tank is fully cycled. I do weekly 25% water changes.
 
Plants: Anubias nana, Amazon Sword, Java Fern, Banana plants, Rotala Indica, Cabomba.
 
Fish: 14 Neon Tetras, 1 SAE, 6 Zebra Danios, 2 Boesemani Rainows (male/female), 1 Flame Gourami (he is the most peaceful fish in the world), and 2 Khuli loaches... 

 

[Munroco]

Khuki loaches hide a lot of the time, especially when they are new to a tank. I wouldn't worry too much about him. How do you know its the same one swimming around, maybe they switch when you aren't looking.

 

[kuzyaburst]

Khuki loaches hide a lot of the time, especially when they are new to a tank. I wouldn't worry too much about him. How do you know its the same one swimming around, maybe they switch when you aren't looking.

Ok, now I'm kind of freaked out because the one that was really active hasn't moved for 10 minutes and I wanted to make sure if he is alright so I carefully touched him with my net and he didn't move, he is breathing I can see him but not moving at all, just laying on the bottom of the tank. 

 

[kuzyaburst]

The one that  was active died, I still don't know why I did a water change 3 days ago my nitrates, nitrites, ammonia are all 0 except nitrates are 5. My water is fine, my tank is planted with multiple hiding spots. So the active one has gone away wonder what happens next. I really hope the one that is hiding is still doing good, I haven't seen him since yesterday but I have hope... Can somebody tell me what happened? He was so happy swimming around today and out of nowhere lied on the gravel and died... that's not normal to me I have never had a fish do that before.

 

[Baccus]

Have you ever treated the tank with any chemicals or perhaps have high salt content in the water?

Khuli loaches are very suspectable to any irritants that might be in the water, which could explain why the one was swimming all the time, looking in effect for a way out.

 

[Goggy]

Definetly has something to do with the water

 

[kuzyaburst]

Have you ever treated the tank with any chemicals or perhaps have high salt content in the water?

Khuli loaches are very suspectable to any irritants that might be in the water, which could explain why the one was swimming all the time, looking in effect for a way out.

I haven't added anything to the water ever since my last water change which was 2 days before I added them in. These are the chemicals I usually add, Tetra Bacteria, Water Conditioner by Aqueon, Seachem Flourish Comprehensive Supplement. It can't be the water because I still have 1 Khuli (the one who was hiding) that is still alive, he came out of his hiding spot and crawled around in the substrate.