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We have 3 yo-yo loaches in our 63 litre tank with 15 other fish/bottom feeders. We have noticed of late that one of the yo-yo's is always sleeping (looks dead until you try fish them out),not eating and the and other 2 yo-yo's seem to be playing togehter, leaving the other one solo. The other...

Hi Inchworm, Thank you for your reply. We have done the water change and added some Melafix at 3ml for 63 litres, just under half the dose as we were aware that Gouramis and Dwarf Sucker mouth Catfish are sensitive to this medication. We wanted to query whether we should use Sterazin as well...

We have a Dwarf Emerald Gourami which we have had for about 4 months. We went away for a week and a friend was feeding our fish. When we got back we noticed a day after returning that the Gourami had a blood red marking on his side lower body (near front), a red blotch in his eye and a brownish...

Thank you for your thoughts on what could be wrong with our dwarf suckerfish catfish, we appreciate your thoughts. Unfortunatley after coming home after being out today we found him/her had passed away. We will keep your thoughts in mind for our other catfish, just incase they come up with the...

We have a dwarf sucker-mouth catfish which we are concerned about. It has been fine since we put it in our tank some 4 months ago, however just today we noticed it hanging off a leaf almost upside down (we thought it was dead). This lasted for some 10 minutes or more till it finally moved onto...

Thank you to all those who replied for our yoyo loaches question and apologies for not replying sooner. It appears the yoyo's are back to their normal colouring, must have been the stress of going into their new environment. Again thank you to all those who took the trouble to reply and assist...

Request Help Our Dwarf Emerald Gourami has red blotches on its sides (underbody), red blotch in eye and what seems like either something coming from it around the mouth area, both sides and/or it looks like skin hanging from it. It appears ok apart from that, still swimming all over the tank...

We have 3 yoyo loaches which are about 2 inches long and we have had for about 2 weeks. Only this week they have started to fade in colouring and turn a pinkish shade and their stripes are fading in some. They additionally don't seem to be paying any attention to each other. They are still...

Thank you to all of you who replied to our question. Much appreciated.. It has given us food for thought... :nod:

Thank you to everyone who replied to our question. We both thought ourselves how could snails be in tap water too and every time we insisted this couldn't be true, they insisted they were in tap water :rolleyes: . We went to several additional places who said the same.. We still couldn't...

We are new to having fish... Upon buying live plants and fish we started to see a number of snails appear in the tank.. Within 2 weeks there were lots.. We have been removing these manually and with the help of loaches.. When we enquired at several fish stores about how these snails just...

To give you some background we have a 2 foot tank which is 16.7 gallon or 63 litres in capacity. We have had this tank for 3 months in which time the tank has completed its initial cycle. We initially put in the following fish in the tank: 1 x Dwarf Emerald Gourami 7 x Neon Tetras 1 x dwarf...