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Perhaps you'd like to read what others are saying about this tank here and I'll leave it at that. I'll seek refuge back under my rock now with the rest of my loachy friends.

Clown Loaches prefer tanks with soft sand substrates, lot's of cover, driftwood, or caves, and low light. They are not mid or top dwelling fish, which by the look of it, is what your tank is set-up for. A bare bottom tank for clowns loaches puts them completely out of their element. It's...

Neo- This thread is starting to cause quite a stir at loachesonline. Would you like some help or recommendations on what to do to make things better?

IME, schooling fish, like Tetra's, very rarely use water-bridges. Schooling fish seem to be bound to one tank and individually they rarely wander off from the school. The most basic reason my non-schooling fish use the water-bridges is to search for food.

I have no idea. I'd have to see it before I could even guess. I'd quarantine it in a small tank and take some pics.

I'm not sure what you mean by "some weird dent/crease in the topsides of their back". Can you take a pic?

It sounds like to me that the root is not dead. Maybe if you Add ferts to the water you'll eventually have a tree.

'Manganese...A lot of people don't even know what that is.' -Carl Spackler, Caddyshack.

My tanks smell like rain.

It's nothing new. I've seen those for years. My LFS sells them.

I got my 20# tank at Aquariumplants.com. Tank cost $110. UPS Ground Shipping cost $18. I think this price is very reasonable. http://aquariumplant.com/cgi-bin/cart/T.html Be sure you have a local place that will fill the CO2 tank for you. Alot of Welding Gas Shops will only exchange...

My clown loaches have 4 tanks connected together with waterbridges in which they can swim from tank to tank. My observations- The clowns prefer the low-light tanks, which have less than 1 watts per gallon. They only go in the med and high-light tanks when the lights go off.

I have a bunch of coralife digital thermometers. It's calibration accuracy is +/- 1.5 degree's, so you have to check each one and take note how well it is calibrated. They only cost $5 to $8...

I have a few heaterless tanks. I have heaters in my main tanks, but they rarely ever turn on. I keep the temp in my fishroom 77F-79F year round. My Filters heat the water a little too, so my tanks are usually 1 or 2 degrees warmer than the room temperature.

Activated carbon removes diatomic particles to about .5 of a micron. It's also removes chemicals by binding them to the carbon. It might work. It's worth a try if you have it anyway. If this is still a bacterial bloom, I'd do a few water changes also.

No. Don't return it. If your parameters are good it could be diatomic particles that are making your tank cloudy. Have you tried using Activated Carbon? More filter floss in the filter might help too.

A 50 foot long river tank for my clown loaches.

This is not surprizing. Clown Loaches + Bichirs = fewer clown loaches. I told you it wasn't a good combination many months ago.

I have 7 Filstars running, I hardly notice them making any noise. The longer I've had them, the quiter they got. My oldest filstar is 3 years old. I have 2 eheim pros also, which are totally silent. IMO, Filstars are easier to maintain and are better mechanical filters. Filstars will save...

Some of the space heaters have built-in thermostats. I like Electronic Oil Filled Radiator Heaters. 13 Watt Mini Spiral Screw-In Compact Flourscent Light Bulbs are very efficient. That's what I use in my fishroom. I have a ceiling fan with a 4 lights on it and a tree floor lamp that I...