This will show the new loach people how much they live schools.

So. Some people put them in a school of two... This is 3/4 of the healthy ones ( Here are 10) some are on the left.. . I missed them in the photo. The sickest did not come out for food.



Ofc I'm not planning on these all surviving bc some have skinny disease or other defects. But I wanted to show all of you how they like to school and how much they really are schooling fish. This is ofc when they are not cuddling.

My biggest there is about 3.5-4inches.

 

they look very happy I need to get a couple more added to my tank somtime soon

 

They are!!! They are going to get a bigger tank within 2 years, I am going to get one your size or slightly bigger! Right now, I think they can get by on my 75 for a few years this way. Especially considering that my flow is so high. When the ones make it past the sicknesses that some still have from when I got them. I will move those to the new tank. I think about a year or so... Seems like treatment is slow. But I do not want to bring over sick ones to the new tank and right now it is big enough, though they do swim in circles a lot after getting to the end- due to size- but they might even with a bigger one.

 

well the skinny disease is treatable and hopefully most if not all survive may eventually have to rehome some when they start growing massive

 

Yes. I am planning on probably having to rehome some. One of my lfs said they would take some. but right now they are very happy except some are still wasting. I hate how they are sometimes mistreated or whatever leads to that problem...

They have 6 cave type of areas to prevent fighting over them, but they don't seem to fight over it.

Is the problem bacterial or parasites?

I just took out all of their hiding spots to see how many still seemed affected. I'm not sure how many I have but less than 30 (14-30).... They tend to love being in groups, so it's hard to count and the ones who are sick are extremely small/skinny and hard to find.

After taking all hiding spots out I see about 5-7 still with skinny disease... However they are mostly improving. Two look deathly skinny and are searching for food right now. I've been feeding them a lot. They seem to eat a lot. They are almost my only fish.

ICH has since been cleared from the ones I got that had it, without meds (I guess my water quality and stuff is better)

They eat so much!!! Lol. Today I fed them about half a bag of frozen blood worms. Now they are so fat hehe, but they ate it all...

 

usually parasites its fairly common apparently


has some good info on treating it