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:shock: "Oh----My-----Gosh" mikev. If I were to see any of my Clown Loaches sleeping like that, I would have my hand in the tank right away and the log would be gone. I have a 55 gallon that has 3 Clown Loaches in there, of different ages and sizes, and they all cram themselves in a small castel tha...

Thanks everyone! I guess survivor will be a mystery as to why he lived. After a few days of being in the hospital tank, I introduced the new ones to the tank. 6 "Red Tail Phatom's" and 2 smaller Clown Loaches. All seems to be going okay but the tank is toooooooooo big for such little Water friends. ...

Sorry about the Milky instead of the mikev. At a very quick glance I just, well, made a mistake. I guess I will try taking out the U/G filter one more time. I had Silver Lyre Tail mollies in there along with the Clown Loaches and when the Mollies started having Little Ones, doing a gravel vac was a ...

I usually do W/C's on all my tanks at least once a week, I do the nitrATE test to see just how much water that I need to take out, either 10% or 25%. And if I have to do a very good gravel clean or just part of a one. I have U/G filters in all of my tanks, it is just the 2 tanks {1/50gal long and 1/...

Milky; I think that I had put toooooooooo much Prime in that tank as I didn't messure it, just dumped it in. I was afraid of loosing my old guy too which I did anyway. I had done a nitrITE test and it had turned out a brown, also as if I had used the Ph test drops insead of the nitrITE drops, so I d...

I have no idea of why that tank and my other 50 gallon tank changes its water chemistry as fast as it does every time I do a W/C or clean the filter {magnium 350}. I know not to do both on the same day so I will do one and then the other on the day after. Each timee the nitrITES will head up to .25 ...

Thank You for the Welcome. Just wish it could have been under better conditions. I always feel so badly when ever I lose any of my Water Living Friends. I feel as if I could have done more to save them, like not purchase them, as they have clean tanks and are alive in the LFS. I have stopped trying ...

:? So now I really have no idea of what is going on with my tank. I just hope that my Clown Loach can handle what ever it is. I was preparing to do a small W/C this morning as the nitrITES came out to be a .25 last night before I went to bed and after doing about 3 previous W/C's, I was worried that...

My 2 loaches started staying in the ship swimming in the odd way and that is when I checked the Ph. I know that baking soda only gives a quick fix to the Ph but thought that maybe bringing up the Ph would help. I have 8 tanks and the Ph in every one is different. Some stay at 7.2 some are at 7.6 and...

The chart that I have for the reading of the nitrITES, the last color is a Purple-5.0-, Well the color that the test came out was a deaper Purple then that. Come to think about it, the nitrITES did disappear the next morning. I think that you are right about the ammount that can be added. I got the ...

To add to my post, I added a small net full of Marine Salt to their tank. I have the net hanging in the water so that the salt can disolve slowly. I too am not a great one for using salt, especially the Aquarium salt that you can purchase at the LFS but was introduced to Marine Salt {the kind used i...

Oh No!

I just did another 10% W/C and checked the nitrITES.

I did what I was afraid I was going to do.

NitrITES -.25-

:( This is my problem! 40 gallon tank, Magium 350 filter, plus one power head, UG filter, Heavily Planted, Gravel not sand. Tank has been up and cycled for almost one year now. W/C's once a week {25%}. 2 half ship decorations. Corner Filter. I was hospitalized for about one month and my mother was t...