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I'm back into loaches again!!!

Posted By: Jay H <jayhui@webspan.net>
Date: Tuesday, 18 January 2000, at 4:03 p.m.

To those of you whove been on this forum a long time, I had 2 clown loaches before in my community tank who were pretty healthy and eating and being the wonderful clowns that we all read about. Until one day I added a new clown who started to fight with one of the older clowns (probably the alpha male type fighting) and all three developed ick and I thought I cured it until it hit harder than before and I lost them. Made me quite POed at myself and I was loachless for about a year while I pondered trying again. In the meantime, I got 4 kuhlis loaches in another small 10g tank with a betta and some apple snails but I was hesitent to get some more clowns. Well I bit the bullet again and got 3 small 1.25" clowns. I learned my lesson, try to buy all the clowns at once or at least if you add them, add ones that are s