Thanks for that guys!

I got a new thermometer today and it reads 32!!!! Yay

As for my filter, i have bio media stuff in some of the compartments too, a finishing sponge and sponges to collect the large stuff at the first stage. Its a fluval 305 i am running.

The external is a new one which was why i made the decision to turn it off - that and because its fiddly to open and close and i could not be bothered to take the carbon out it, how lazy!!!

But now it needs a clean anyway so i should have just done it!!!

Thanks for the advice guys, i now have two heaters running instead of three to see what temp i am left with!

Thanks for the offer of the sponge curviceps!!

Hell of alot of decent people on this site!!!

keep the 3rd heater as a spare .......glad you got it sorted

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Right, i have nearly got things more settled with the tank.

One issue i still have though.........

The discus, rams, neons, rummynose etc have all lost their white spots and seem much happier, BUT

The clown loaches are not doing so well.
Two of them have a number of spots but seem to be coping, the third is covered in them, and i mean covered!! It is breathing really quickly, lying down in the plants etc but is struggling on. Why if the others are getting better, is the loach still infested and struggling? Is their anything i can try?? I feel really sad for it, and part of me would think it best to put out of its misery but i also keep thinking, what if it pulls through.

Advice would be appreciated!

this one clown loach may have been the weeker of the 3 and the whitespot has realy given it a hard hitting! the warm/hot water speeds up the cycle of the whitespot paricite and the treatment can kill it in freeswimming part.

whats the treatment status ? are you still treating ?

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If you want the sponge, pm me.

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I am still treating the tank. It was meant to be two treatments spaced 4 days apart, but i decided to apply another treatment today, four days since the last.

I did a water change today and cleaned the tank, then medicated.

The rest of the fish are looking good though!!

I cant believe how confident my discus are, when i go in to clean the tank, they are right up at my hands, when the whitespot goes, i will try hand feeding.