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tank has been set up over two years now ,i have some good pictures now ,,ill get them up ,as soon as my daughter gets home from ,school ,im a bit of a technophobe ,so im not able to do it myself

hi shari,,thanks for your input ,,i shall do the things you have suggested straight away im hoping ,my daughter can bring her camera tomorrow ,i,ll get the pictures up asap ,unfortunatly ,i only have one tank,,so quarantining is not possible he seems to be healing slowly ,but the edges of the damage...

thankks emma,,ill try a 25%water change ,cut down on feeding ,and check for the bacteriado i need to completly seperate the fish from the rest ,,,is the bacteria contageous?

hi emma ,mick again ,,i think its too late for squidward ,i got home this afternoon and he looks like he is being eaten alive ,,the big white circle on his side has the flesh missing with scraps of skin around the edges its almost down to the bones in places ,,i have isolated him in case the other f...

hi emma,,i will check the water again when i get home later today,,the ph was 7 ,,and the ammonia ,nitrites and nitrates were all in the bottom of the scale ,,colorwise ,it is nothing like the thread ,,,these marks were like birthmarks ,,and the white circles are 2,5cms round on 1 side and elongated...

hi all sorry to be a pain ,,but one of my clowns is behaving really odd ,,he appears to be getting scaley an getting brown blotches on his flanks ,,he is also laying on top of the filter on his side half way out of the water ,,,ive topped up the tank so he is covered ,but he still wont come down ,,i...

that would be nice ,,ill keep in touch thnx mick

thanks for ur help ,,it has helped a lot ,,did u say u had a shop ,,if so do u u have a website ?/,and could you tell mewhere you are ,,im only in borehamwood so id like to come visit regards mick

hi emma ,thanks for ur reply ,i have to be honest ,,i dont know that much about clown loach ,,but after reading the forum this morning i may be making a few changes ,,,,i have a 3 ft tank ,,soon to be changed for a 4ft i only have two at the moment ,,but will be adding a few more asap ,,they are bot...

hi ,,im new to this forum ,,and would like some advice,,,my clowns have started behaving really strange ,they have been chasing each other all over the tank ,(been doing it for about two weeks now ) and just recently they have started circling each other ,and now started locking lips ,,one of them s...