Bentley Pascoe

Usually with bows they go darting everywhere and don't pay the best attention to their surroundings and end up hitting something hard. I've had a few boys do this courting females. I always feel a little embarrassed for my dumb, but very handsome boys

Most typically when we see this discoloration in either the front or rear of the body it's due to nerve damage. Unfortunately, there's usually means that the rainbow isn't too long for this world, but that is not always the case. I would start with a light dose of salt, especially if you have a reef salt for the extra mineral content. Then you can do a very light medicinal treatment such as the med trio just in case it happens to be something else.

I had some friends attend and they really had a ton of fun!

This was my first Keystone Clash. I have to say, this event was a TON of fun. Lots of wonderful folks made it out, tons of small creators (myself included!) got to spend time meeting people, meeting each other, checking out some amazing vendors and wonderful talks. I love the social side of conventions, getting to meet people, learn what fish they love, just babble a bit and nerd out was wonderful. I'm pretty sure I helped sell fish for a couple people because I wouldn't stop talking about "Did you see those Bulgarian Green Angels?!" or "Did you see the person with the Red Empresses? They have better color stressed than any other Red Empress I've seen!" or "Go see the buce booth! His prices are the best deal I've ever seen!" Events like this are what make my entire year. Seeing people I only met previously at Triple Crown, catching up since then, meeting other new people. Aquarium Domain was there, sitting with him and Jason from Prime Time to just babble fish late Friday night was perfect. I could gush more and more about this, but I suppose that would ruin a video 🤣

Most of the typical advice out there for getting your dojo loaches to spawn involves of somewhat lengthy process of steadily cooling down the water to act like winter and then bringing the water temperature back up to spring and summer temperatures. Usually this process is done over about 6 weeks or so in order to simulate nature. Then as you're getting into those "spring" temperature is you'll start feeding higher quality foods. Maybe a little bit higher quantity to help them get ready to spawn. As far as hormones are concerned, that's nothing that I've really researched into. They spawn so readily in the wild and if you get them into large enough ponds like you would see in Florida or the like I don't know that they necessarily need to go to that level. Possibly the food based Loaches that you can see in certain Asian markets are done under that.

I was working on an online HAP program at first, but unfortunately my developer left me in the wind. I have a bunch of things documented for a program and how I would choose to run it, just requires app development which right now is a no go for me. Goal in the future? Absolutely. Can I do BAP as well once a framework is built? Yep! Can I give a time table? Nope. Unfortunately I have way higher priority things in my life at the moment, but once life settles back down it's something I wish to tackle.

My best suggestion would be to contact a local fish store, see if someone on staff or a contact can help you - if you have a local fish club you might also consider reaching out to the club and see if a member can help you. Best wishes on your recovery!

Well you know I'll be watching this thread.

The best way to speed up the process is just making sure there's more veg content - things like peas are amazing, but if you want something easier you can bring out some rapashy or a similar spiralina/veg food.

Can you give pictures or better description of their buoyancy problem? Dojos will move air through their bodies OFTEN and this can cause either the front or back of their body to be a little floaty and seem like a problem - when it's actually just normal for them. Now if you're seeing them upside down, we might have a different issue. In general I would suggest a more veg heavy omnivore diet for dojos - excess proteins can clog them up some and cause some panic inducing day(s) of them getting back to normal. Xtreme community crave and the bottom wafers have been great for my dojos, supplemented with things like Rapashy soilent green.

To chime in (thanks for the shout out Patrick!): Fluval in my experience is one of the easier to source and least enriched of the various aquasoils out there; however, if you want no ammonia leaching at all, then I would look into Brightwell's Rio Escuro. This is an ash based aquasoil rather than clay, but it's functionally so similar that there's really no difference unless you specifically want the hyper enriched, high ammonia leaching of some of the other aquasoils. Those can be very good for kickstarting your beneficial bacteria colonies as it provides food for them readily and easily for a good period of time.

My heart goes out to you. Any loss at scale in a fishroom/house/heck even a single tank feels gut wreching. I'm glad some things made it through and hopefully you can build your colonies back up.

If you're concerned that Pseudomugils are dying due to flow with a mop. I would hurl that right up the window. Blue eyes typically come from stream water systems that have significantly more flow than we're able to easily produce in an aquarium. You could be dealing with something where like a mop is too dense. Or maybe they're biting at a thread, but I don't think that's the culprit. I think you're dealing with something else here and I can't necessarily tell from the video you took. If you're trying to catch some kind of critter, what I would do is turn the filter off so there's no flow interrupting your visibility and then try to find a good camera angle of them and and film them or picture them. Also, I would say the same for most corydoras because they come from relatively good flow and they're naturally strong swimmers. I don't think flows your issue here.

In general most of the Pseudos are fairly top water swimmers. I think regardless of which of those two you pick, you'll have a great fish. I'm more partial to the big Bows, so that's what I keep, but in the Pseudos Furcata are my favorite for freshwater.

Where's my Jonah Hill excitedly screaming gif when I need it! Appreciate the update!