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Great to know there's a closer option!

Great thank you! I'll look for some of those rocks. The Petco is just terrible, but I'd like to try and save these guys. I love my LFS, but it's nearly two hours away, and their hardware is a bit ridiculously expensive, so often I go to Petco. I've sworn off PetSmart after they had a bout of fish TB...

One more question, sorry. Will making a stack out of my 4 and 6 inch rocks work or do they need larger ones? If so, what type of rock? A lot of the aquascaping ones aren't really smooth, and my LFS mainly has volcanic and dragon rock, so I don't know where I would get smooth ones... And is PraziPro ...

Good to know, thank you! I know they hardly eat algae, just the microorganisms in it, I feel I have a good selection of food, but I will definitely look into Repashy, thank you!

Yes, I'll probably just pull the one from the main tank and put that on the QT, then replace it with an unused spare. Also, do these loaches eat live plants? I have a decently planted tank, anacharis, java moss, dwarf sag, and water wisteria, would these plants be targets? And would the loach be oka...

I love the stick and string idea, that's a great one! I never would have thought of that. And those are lovely hillstreams, but I'm probably just going to go with the ones at PetCo because the tank they're in is maybe three gallons and I just feel like saving them. Thank you everyone for the replies...

Thank you for your advise, I really hadn't thought of the airstone like that. I'll be getting another bubbler, either 12" or 18", but the way the tank is positioned in the room, I can only put one HOB on either opposite end, so one would always be working against the other. Would putting a 12" acros...

Darn, I knew it probably wouldn't work. When you say they mostly eat the stuff available in the tank, is that the small crustacians in algae? I'm not even really sure what those are to be honest, just something I had read. I have a decent amount of algae, not brown diatoms but the similar green one,...

Hi there, I've seen some very nice things from this forum so I decided to go ahead and join! That, and the fact that basically no one on the other forums I'm on have ever had these loaches. I'm facing a bit of a dilemma... I keep seeing these gorgeous fish at, would you believe, PetCo. Just facing r...