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Thank-you for the suggestions-will these fish tolerate the high pH and aggressive nature of the fish?

My cichlid tank is getting algae on its rocks....can I put an algae eater into this tank? (have Blue Dolphins, Dragonsbloods and Electric Yellows).

I just put in a buckets of water till all the yellow/brown disappeared....then dropped in tank. Will take a while for it to drop pH though.

Clown Loaches love snails :bounce:

If you start using the pH down you will need to add every day....if you are worried about introducing the fish then add some of your water from the tank into the fish bag over a period of 30 minutes or so while you are acclimatising the fish to the tank temp. When starting up a new tank the pH is the least of your worries. Also pH in a tank changes naturally throughout the day when fish are in it anyway, due to organic waste, oxygen levels, photosynthesis from the plants etc. Also driftwood/bogwood will naturally lower your pH over time too.

I use a salt solution to wash, then rinse really well and dry.

I change 25% of my water every week in my 250litre tank. 20% every week with my 600 litre tank.....I do run quite big filters though. I test my water every month as it always remains pretty consistent. My son only changes 25% every 2 weeks in his 60 litre tank....and he never has any fish losses. You do have quite alot of fish in your tank though.

My wee loach is still alive His tank smells like a strong smelling garlic bread! I'm giving him 3 small feeds a day and he is eating, and swimming around more today. I gave the other fish another small feed of garlic today too....think I might keep this regime up for a week and see how it goes.

I used crushed garlic to make it easy to eat. I read about the TB also, but trying to get hold of TB drugs could be very difficult....and it is usually a cocktail including Rifampin. Hopefully it is just worms....but time will tell. For good measure I gave all the fish crushed garlic today....and they all gobbled it down. it should not do any harm, because it really is no different from any other vege that I feed them.

Ok I have caught him. Done a bit more research and apparently you can use garlic to fend off alot of worms/parasites.....so my poor loach has just become an experiment (I don't mean that in an awful way). If I got the dosage wrong for the dewormer I would just kill him....anyway have dropped some garlic into his tank....and he is eating it! Will try this for a few days with his normal food and see how it goes :-?

I thought I had lost him....he was lying in log looking very pale on his side.....tried to scoop him up and the little blighter shot off....now I can't catch him....when I do I will put him in a tank with some food soaked in worming stuff....worth a try anyway.

If you search for skinny/wasting disease in loaches there are heaps of forums / sites about it. I first noticed it last night so thought I would check that the loach is eating....seems to be in small amounts, I was worried about the other fish snatching up all the food, but I always have cucmber in the tank for the fish to nibble on so the loach is not skinny because it is starving to death. I looked up the worms/parasites too, but there are photo's of this wasting disease and it looks exactly like my loach....I don't really want to treat until I have a definite diagnosis as loaches don't take kindly to meds anyway.

I have a fairly new loach (about 3 weeks) who is very skinny with a sucked in appearance. According to some web sites it is a wasting/skinny disease that can be treated with Erythromycin. Before I hassle my vet tomorrow has anyone else come across this disease and had success treating it?

Just as well as my iMacaquarium is a pretty blue then