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Day 6... aren't things supposed to start looking better?!! OK, so I must admit that things do look better for most everybody. But Mr. loach still looks about the same. Hasn't eaten in 4 days. Still covered with little white specks. And is in hiding most of the time. At the advice of...

Day 3... Well, we lost one of the loaches yesterday and the other one isn't looking too good either. Tried feeding some black worms (his favorite) and at first he seemed interested and got one halfway into his mouth and then spit it out. He's covered with ich and his colors are faded. :(...

I've got it cranked up to right about 87. The fish seem fine so far. I suppose it takes a few days for the white spots to go away? Do you know if the warm water kills all stages of the ich or is it just the tomites that it kills? It is all over my loaches... they look miserable! Thanks...

looks like raising the temp is what most people are recommending... Does anyone know if Redlined torpedo barbs can handle it? I also have clown loaches, plecos, a boesemani rainbow and an emerald rainbow. ugh!

I was afraid of that... we have hard water. Thanks for the reply.

I bought one of those 100GPD RO Filters from EBay. Filter Direct, I think. I'm only getting about 1.5gal per hour which is about a third of what I was expecting. Has anyone else seen this?

Thanks for the responses. I got industrious this morning and drained it and rinsed the sand. I could tell the difference right away and I'm glad I did it. Now after about 4 hours of filtering it's already looking great. Before, after 18 hours I still couldn't see all the way through the...

Hi all, I'm a nooby...and it looks like I didn't read enough about using pool filter sand. I assumed it was already pretty clean stuff. So I went ahead and just put it in the tank without rinsing it first. Now, I have very cloudy water... So, my question is, do I need to start over? Just...