Hi everybody! I've got 8 really healthy Denison barbs that I'm extremely happy with, but it's been a long unhappy road for me. I have owned a total of 12 during the process and lost 4 due to gut problems. Three died from emaciation and one tied from bloat. I tried flubendazole but that didn't do anything - I know this isn't the best treatment around but I have concluded that this wasn't a parasite problem. I tried lowering the temperature, and that seemed to improve their overall health a bit, but I still had deaths after that (I was at 25 and dropped it to 23 which I think is a bit better for denisons - they seem to be enjoying themselves now anyway). The thing that ultimately seemed to make the difference was cutting down the animal protein in their diet. I now basically feed them what I used to feed my tropheus moorii - primarily spirulina flake. I throw in a bit of Spectrum every couple of days and I risk some frozen daphnia once every couple of weeks. Growth is slow but I think this is quite a good thing given their large adult size. Any views from fellow Denison keepers? S