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I don't get clowns...

Posted By: Nes
Date: Saturday, 8 May 2004, at 6:00 p.m.

Can anyone direct me to a really good book about clown loaches?

For all the information & advice I've been given, I've had no luck keeping them for more then a few months :(.

I currently have 6... 5... 4 now :X little 1" cls still fairly fresh from the petstore of 2 weeks. I've been feeding them nothing but good-quaitly blood worms with a few algea pellets & shrimp sticks to as supplement.

Keep the tank at a nice 80F, running a 30 gallon sponge filter in the 15 gallon tanks.

The other day I noticed one not moving on the bottom so I quickly added the aquarisol (at half strenght) because that is what was suggested to me for pre-treating. Then I found another little guy on the bottom again today.

It's possible I've added the aquarisol a little to late to save the second little one, but is there anything else I'm doing horribly wrong?

FYI - my last group of 4 clown loaches died of the normal internal-parastis (I had no idea about at the time I got them) just a day short of a month :(.

Thanks,
Nes.
 

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