I have I a 20 gallon tank, a 12, and a 55 that is almost set up.
In the 12 gallon I had 2 small clown barbs and 3 very small clown loaches. In the 20 I have a large clown barb, a albino rainbow shark, and a red tailed shark. These are fully cycled tanks that I'm using to hold the fish until the 55 is ready. The ammonia and nitrites read 0 with just a little nitrates.
In the 12 gallon, I've had the loaches for 2 1/2 weeks. They have been fine, look normal, act normal, eat normally. The clown barbs pick on them a bit when they come out so they limit swimming till food time. I came home from work yesterday to one dead loach. He scales were raised and spiky and I assumed he'd been picked on. I kept an eye on the other two but by the next day they were swimming slowly and had lost a lot of color. They were being picked on pretty badly by the barbs and one looked spiky and bumpy like the dead one.
In the 20, the three fish are active, bright, with a voracious appetite. After I found the dead loach (two days ago), I decided to do a water change and gravel vacced the gravel a bit. Then the next day (yesterday) when I found the remaining two loaches I put them into the 20 gallon to get them away from the barbs. They died this afternoon. I'm now noticing changes in my 20 gallon fish behavior. The large clown barb is swimming at the top of the tank very slowly and will sometimes go down and rub his side on this flat ornament. The two sharks are hiding behind the filter but when they come out they seem to wriggle as they swim. All their fins are clamped down and the sharks have lost some color.
The large clown barb usually has a ridiculous appetite but he's not really interested in eating. He just swims along the top of the water. Their may be a fuzz dot on his dorsal fin but I cant be sure if it isn't a bit of brine shrimp or something.
The two clown barbs, that lived with the loaches for 2 1/2 weeks are extremely active, bright, and hungry. Like normal. Both tank temps are 78-80 degrees with no nitrites. The ammonia in the 20 is at a .25, .5 ppm.
Please tell me how to save my large clown barb. I've had him for a year now and I can't lose him.
In the 12 gallon I had 2 small clown barbs and 3 very small clown loaches. In the 20 I have a large clown barb, a albino rainbow shark, and a red tailed shark. These are fully cycled tanks that I'm using to hold the fish until the 55 is ready. The ammonia and nitrites read 0 with just a little nitrates.
In the 12 gallon, I've had the loaches for 2 1/2 weeks. They have been fine, look normal, act normal, eat normally. The clown barbs pick on them a bit when they come out so they limit swimming till food time. I came home from work yesterday to one dead loach. He scales were raised and spiky and I assumed he'd been picked on. I kept an eye on the other two but by the next day they were swimming slowly and had lost a lot of color. They were being picked on pretty badly by the barbs and one looked spiky and bumpy like the dead one.
In the 20, the three fish are active, bright, with a voracious appetite. After I found the dead loach (two days ago), I decided to do a water change and gravel vacced the gravel a bit. Then the next day (yesterday) when I found the remaining two loaches I put them into the 20 gallon to get them away from the barbs. They died this afternoon. I'm now noticing changes in my 20 gallon fish behavior. The large clown barb is swimming at the top of the tank very slowly and will sometimes go down and rub his side on this flat ornament. The two sharks are hiding behind the filter but when they come out they seem to wriggle as they swim. All their fins are clamped down and the sharks have lost some color.
The large clown barb usually has a ridiculous appetite but he's not really interested in eating. He just swims along the top of the water. Their may be a fuzz dot on his dorsal fin but I cant be sure if it isn't a bit of brine shrimp or something.
The two clown barbs, that lived with the loaches for 2 1/2 weeks are extremely active, bright, and hungry. Like normal. Both tank temps are 78-80 degrees with no nitrites. The ammonia in the 20 is at a .25, .5 ppm.
Please tell me how to save my large clown barb. I've had him for a year now and I can't lose him.
