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Certainly could be dominance--You can usually tell the difference between painful flashing (fast, constant & random) & a more controlled dominance behavior. Hopefully he's just showing off! Just keep an eye out for new symptoms, as those new passionis could have brought in flukes or other...

Brand shouldn't matter as long as its made for aquarium use. The Petco by me sells Kent brand, so that's what I've always used--A bottle will last years. They usually keep it in the saltwater section because those fish never want to eat for some reason...

All I buy now are oddballs, but I have a few big 3-bars still hanging around from my early days. Large oddballs are worth big bucks, but the small oddballs aren't very easy to separate & they may not stay oddball, so they don't get picked out of the big batches of 1 inch fish that come to...

Driftwood can harbor all kinds of nastiness, but it does sound like the ick is trying to make a comeback since the flashing happened first. If the tannins are enough to change your PH they can compound the problem, but it sounds like you're doing enough water changes that it shouldn't be an...

Heck yeah, if he's already a pellet eater, try a veggie pellet.

Veggies are tough cuz you have to have the right veggie at the right height, with a hungry fish that's trained to know what a veggie is. For example, Nigelk's severum probably needs a soft veggie like cucumber or spinach clipped close to the top of the tank--He's a tough fish, but he's still not...

Sounds like an internal parasite to me--Soak food in metro or dog de-wormer (which is usually metro-based) & add a drop of garlic extract to make sure he eats it. Add some metro to the main tank & be vigilant for a few weeks, as those big white turds can be loaded with more worms/parasites.

UV will kill the floaties, but does nothing to the ick that's stuck on decor/plants or resting on the substrate--I usually get flamed for this, but I am a huge believer in copper treatments. Since you have a catfish the dosage would have to be extremely small, but in my experience low dose...

Clowns would be too aggressive for the angels & they would punch holes in all your plants looking for snails. They would decimate the snail population, though. Angelicus botia is a better choice--Less aggressive for sure. That said, every angelicus I've ever had needed to be quarantined...

Well that sucks that you lost a few CL's, but at least you got the others out. Regardless of the growth rate you get, I don't think these are good tankmates. It seems to me bichirs are one of the few fish that would be able to damage even large CL's because they use the same multiple fin...

Is he the biggest in the shoal, or maybe close to the biggest? The dominant CL in a shoal will usually "grey out" to show his status--That's totally normal & the grey color would probably spread completely if this is the case. If you already have a big grey dominant in the shoal, this guy may...

A squad of 4 or 5 clown loaches would leave no place for those fry to hide, but they might be too big by the time you get the loaches out of quarantine.... Big loaches are $$$$

Put a drop of garlic extract on the cucumber slice & make sure you get your fingers outta the tank in time...

One drop of Garlic extract in the water will get him eating in a hurry.

There's probably 20 great loach feeding threads on MFK, but it really all boils down to a basic concept: NLS & other hi quality prepared foods, supplemented with fresh veggies, snail meat & frozen bloodworm. Vary the mixture daily & you will have healthy, happy, solid CL's.

Follow Lupin's advice above & crush a few snails for them. Feed only crushed snails for a day or so & they'll never want pellets again. Of course, you have to keep their diet varied, so keep rotating your foods & they'll learn to eat everything you throw in there.

VERY impressive. How many watts total? Probably half the wattage of a single tube the length of that tank? 10 times the light though...

Quarantine, Garlic extract & medicated food--Ready. Go.

Its a 99% Garlic Extract that will send your fish into a feeding frenzy. There are several brands out there, but I use the Ken's Garlic Xtreme cuz it's easy to get locally. You can put a drop or 2 into the water, which attracts the fish VERY quickly, or use it to add significant "garlic power"...

Ha! Collective knowledge is a beautiful thing... Whoever runs that site probably just trolls around MFK 24/7 posing as some 13-year old kid from Idaho, then pastes all the info he collects up to his site.