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I had an outbreak of whitespot on some fish in my quarantine tank. In the past I've used Protozin but this time I found that the Pets at Home own brand is excellent. It comes in very small bottles though, so for a big tank you may need more than one bottle. Also need to be careful with dosage if...

I've found http://www.loaches.com very helpful. There is a little info on the site about this fish plus a photo - looks very nice. john

I have kept and bred these fish for many years - I have found that unless they get cucumber on a daily basis they will rasp away at the leaves of some plants, leading to holes and death of leaves. New leaves on sword plants seem to be particularly vulnerable. Slice of cucumber sorts them out.

I keep this small tank ticking over all the time as a quarantine tank - I have never put new fish straight into my main tank. This has helped me to avoid disease outbreaks for many years. Since I've had heavily planted tanks quite a few fish fry have survived in my main tank, some less welcome...

I have masses of Riccia in my tank so decided to thin it out. Rather than throw it away I put it in my spare tank which is currently fishless. Looked in this morning and saw at least three small fry - growing them on to see what they are. I expect they'll be either neon rainbows or emperor...

In my tank the snails disappeared gradually over a few days = I never actually saw how they did it. They are constantly hunting all round the tank picking at the leaves and gravel so I guess they tackle eggs and tiny snails. I have never seen any of the loaches take any interest in other fish -...

I don't know how these loaches tackle the larger snails, their mouths seem tiny - but mine have removed all of the ones in my tanks. large and small. I don't agree that a few snails are no problem -they made a terrible mess of an expensive Aponogeton by chewing many small holes in the leaves...

I've had similar damage to Congo tetras - they seem to spook easily and bang into the glass or jump out into the lights. I have one which has had a deformed/damaged mouth since I bought it. Feeds OK and has grown well. I think that if you can get rid of or avoid any infection, fish seem to be...

I've been researching best species of loach to eat small snails which are damaging my Aponogeton leaves. I've had conflicting advice from several shops about how big different species will get and how aggressive they can be. I ended up finding the www.loaches.com site which I found very helpful...