Secondhand Tank Finally Here.

That was a bit of luck!

Clown loaches can get huge, unfortunately, and yes they do need friends and a much bigger tank (minimum 180 x 60cm). You could try advertising it on aquarist-classifieds. People with big tanks and clown loaches do take in unwanted fish.
And the barb also needed a shoal and a bigger tank. Seriously Fish says a tank at least 120 x 45cm. (The site also gives the name as Sahyadria denisonii  rather than Puntius). Being alone would have stressed it, and as it was also old its time would have come soon even without the move.

Remind me, how hard is your tapwater? Mollies don't do well in soft water so if yours is soft, that could be the cause of its problems. If it's hard though, the cause is something else so quarantining it was a good idea.

It's spine looks fine, when we went to view the tak a few weeks back it was swimming happily around. We do have very hard water so we're ok there and we gave it a pea last  night and it ate half of it. So fingers crossed it'll work.

I'm a tad suprised to discover the clown loach was too big for the tank, she's kept fish for years, including a very large pond containing some VERY big koi carp so I assumed as she had it, it should be ok for that size tank. Apparently she originally had 6 of them. Also she's only ever fed them flaked fish food including the clown loach. It'll be in for a treat tonight then as it's bloodworm night!

Ohh i have to share this also, my son can sometimes be such a twit!!! He primed the external filter and it was running fine but he noticed it was leaking slightly. He was on the floor with his feet inside the cabinet with the filter between his legs. I know he must have been knackered because we'd been moving furniture and fish and buckets of water for about 7 hours by this point. I said to him when he commented on the leak that maybe an internal seal was slightly out of line. So what does he do?

Yup the twit undid the catches holding the 2 parts of the filter together!!!! and of course 145 liters of water suddenly wanted to leave the tank via the opened filter!!!!He was stuck like the little dutch boy with his finger in the leaking dyke. Luckily I realised that if I lifted the outlet pipe out of the tank the water would stop pouring out and I kind of half dragged him out the cabinet so we could put the filter in a bucket we had to hand but honestly what an idiot!!! I had to laugh

It wouldn't have been so bad if he'd just disconnected a pipe, he actually opened the top of the external filter.

and I have to confess I've decided 3 are more than enough, now I'm at college I dont have the time for all the maintenance needed. My local MA very kindly took all my endlers and guppies off my hands, one of the guys that works there selected some of them to use for his breeding project. He's promised to keep me updated.