Loaches Online Forum

Well, I found the missing loach today during a w/c, found him dead when I moved one of the caves, no idea what killed him. :cry: The loach that I was worried had velvet is still alive and well, and still darker than the other two, and still the most aggressive one, so I guess he is just showing he's...

It's been very well documented that healthy clown loaches will lie on their sides on the bottom of the tank, playing dead. I think that I read somewhere online that yoyos do it too, but then again, you can find lots of bad information online. However, since clowns do it and now all of your yoyos are...

I'm pretty convinced now that the one loach is just darker, his appearance hasn't gotten any worse since I first started worrying a few days ago, and if anything, he's coming out and foraging more during the day than he did before, sometimes joined by his "wingman". My only concern now is that I onl...

Hey chefkeith, No worries, I'm taking it all as advice from people who have more experience than I do in fishkeeping. I'm going to see about picking up a used 20-30 gal tank off of craigslist to use as a quarantine tank. I've actually lost a couple of guppies to what appears to be harassment by the ...

OK, some people on other forums started getting me worried about Ick, so I decided to pull the caves and castle I had in the tank for a few minutes so I could get a look at all of the loaches at once to make sure that they all looked fine. Only problem is that when I did this, I only found one loach...

Since all of my clowns are new and still settling in, it's hard to tell if any of their behavior is normal. He's skittish, but comes out more than the others. If he doesn't seem to be scratching himself against objects and is still foraging and fighting for food, would you consider that to be normal...

I got four new clown loaches a week ago, they've mostly been hiding, and I almost never see all of them out at once. Recently though, I have been seeing two of them come out at feeding time. I noticed yesterday that one was darker than the other and his colors looked duller. But they were fighting o...