Please help - urgent fish compatibility question

[boogaloo]

Hi everyone,

OK, long story short, mum's tank has started to leak - this kicked off pretty late last night and is just a slow leak at this stage, but it's only going to get worse. I've managed to scrape her off the ceiling, and I'm taking the afternoon off work to go and help, but it looks as though she's going to need me to home the fish. I have room, but one of the fish is a very shy skunk loach, and I have never kept loaches before. Feeding and water parameters not an issue (our tank parameters are pretty much the same), but I need to check it will get on OK with my existing fish. Haven't decided the best tank for it yet, but these are the following tank mates I need to take into consideration:

Rio 180 - Bristlenose plec & rams (option 1)
Rio 300 Common plec & corys (option 2)

All my fish are pretty peaceful - the rams squabble amongst themselves, but ignore everyone else. Are any of these fish a no-no?

The rest of her fish are tetras, so these will easily slot into a couple of my tanks. What a nightmare...

 

[Lornek8]

Shouldn't be any issues with either tank. Skunk loaches aren't one of the more aggressive loaches & they're quicker than plecs.

 

[bigbird]

should be no problem at all. Have fun later trying to catch him again. cheers jk :thumbup:

 

[macvsog23]

Simple
buy a water storgae tank the plastic sort pop the fish in this with the water from the tank get a new tank pop fish and water back in new tank
keep plastick tank for next time

 

[boogaloo]

Well, the fish rescue is complete. All the fish seem to be settling in OK, though I'll obviously need to monitor them for a week or so, but looks good so far.

Loach is in the Rio 180. Considering my mum never used to see him, he's all over my tank! He's been chasing about all over the place and zooming up to the other fish, though not in an aggressive way, more checking them out - the other fish couldn't care less and are completely ignoring him. Anyway, I'll keep an eye on them all - hopefully he'll calm down a bit soon when he's settled in.