Help Me With My Ill Fishies Please! D,;

[LikkleFishy]

I have a 160 L tank, 6 tiger barbs, 2 red tailed black sharks, 1 bala shark, 2 clown loaches, 1 bristlenose pleco

Well firstly, after noticing a raise in nitrate levels and a missing bala shark, the most sensible conclusion would seem that it has been eaten...
And secondly and most worrying to me is that we have an ill looking clown loach, he's always swimming with the tiger barbs unlike the other, more lazy one; recently he's been really sluggish and the current has been blowing him over easily. His snout has turned a much darker colour too and does not use his back set of fins on the underside of his body. I've had him since I set up my tank and really don't want him to die. He can't fight the current.
And also, I have noticed the lonely bala shark has small white spots around his face.

Oh, and my two red tailed black sharks have chewed up fins! D:
They've been chasing each other around alot.

What would you do right now if you were me?

my first thoughts:
Get whitespot treatment for the bala shark, then buy 2/3 more companians.
Remove one red tailed black shark/buy 4 more to restore order.
Get help on my lovely wikkle loach D',;


PLEASE help!

 

[WILDER]

Your stocking all wrong and some of the fish you keep need larger tanks.
Clown loaches need 90 gallons tanks and need to be kept in groups.
Bala sharks need large tanks too and should be kept in groups.
Should only keep one red tailed shark as they are aggressive as they get older.

What are your water stats in ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, and ph.
How often do you maintain the tank.

Your fish have whitespot if the spots on the face are grains of salt size.
Raise temp to 30.
Increase aeration with the high temp and med.
Remove black carbon from the filter if you use it.
Read meds instructions as with scaless fish you sometimes have to half dose.


No more red tailed sharks plus they need 40 gallon tanks.
Research the fish before you buy them.

 

[LikkleFishy]

Sorry, though I am new to the fish business and the LFS man sold us them reassuring us that they would be fine.

NO3 = 50
GH = >10'd
KH = 3d
PH = 7.2

Did a water change today, the LFS man told us 10-20% every two weeks.
I have no idea about aeration and chemicals, and I may kill the other fish if I raise the temp, and if I do that I'd never forgive myself...

But please, I need to know how to help my clown loach...

 

[WILDER]

What your tap nitrate reading.
Need ammonia and nitrite water result.
You do a water change and gravel vac once a week.

I would find another lfs as they don't seem to have a clue.
Are the spots the size of grains of salt as you need to treat fast, as whitespot can be a fast killer.

Research clown loaches, bala sharks, and red tailed sharks you will then realise the tanks to small, and you shouldn't keep two red tailed shark together, only in really massive tanks so they have there own territory.
[URL="http/www.bollmoraakvarieklubb.org/artikl...raktbotia/clown"]http/www.bollmoraakvarieklubb.org/artikl...raktbotia/clown[/URL] loach.htm

A link to whitespot.
http/www.skepticalaquarist.com/docs/health/ich.shtml