Clown Loaches sick.....

Flohrie · Mar 6, 2003

Well about a week ago I noticed 2 of my loaches had white spot. I went and bought some treatment, removed my carbon and administered it.

So far the whole tank has had 2 doses, 1 every 3 days. Tomorrow is the next time they will get some but they arn't looking very good.

They used to be very shy and whenever i walked infront of the tank they would hide in a cave, now they are lying on my driftwood, rocks and even the top of the heater. They have a lot of white spots all over them now and I don't know if the treatment is working.

Is there anything else I can do or is it too late for my buddies??

Skittyfish · Mar 6, 2003

Did you raise the water temp? In my experience with sick loaches, it takes them a bit longer to respond, and also some medications affect them differantly than other fish.

Flohrie · Mar 6, 2003

Yes I only just raised the temp tonight though

Clownloach458 · Mar 6, 2003

clowns are scalles fish, mabey your medicaiton is harmful to them, or dosent work on scaless fish.

longhorn · Mar 6, 2003

Generally speaking you should reduce the dose for clown loach since they are scaleless

kuhli · Mar 7, 2003

re clown loaches

sorry to hear of your trouble.
here is the treatment for ich with loaches.
Raise temp 84 degrees.
Add lots of areation.
Remove carbon from your filter if you are using it.
Dose full strength with maracide for 10 days.
Day 5 25% water change and vacumn gravel
10th day 40% water change add carbon to filter.
Also rinse in hot saltywater anything used in the tank to stop re infection.
Good luck

clayt101 · Mar 8, 2003

I would recomend raising the temp to the mid 80's, and half dosing with ick medication.

Flohrie · Mar 8, 2003

Yes I have been giving them half doses as I knew they didn't have scales.

Temp is up in the 80's now......Reminds me of my Dad's old Discus tank.

They arn't shy anymore and they are coming out and "resting" on my driftwood, its part of there behaviour to lie on their sides isn't it??

Skittyfish · Mar 8, 2003

Clown loaches are great, mine always had a gaurd that would watch over the sleepers (sleeping on sides and one always slept nearly on its back). Unfortunately mine got trapped inside a hollow log and died.

I am going to slowly build my collection of clown loaches back up.

kuhli · Mar 8, 2003

re ick dosing

A lot of loach nuts use Mardel's Maracide. It is very safe for loaches at full strength. I have used numerous times in my quarantine tank with new loaches. I even know people who had ghost shrimp that were ok with it. Mid 80's is good but it does decrease oxygen in the water so you must provide lots of surface agitation. It also speeds up the life cycle and helps kill ich in the swimming stage.
Here's is a link to one of the best ich resources around.

http://www.caloriesperhour.com/fish/notes_ich.html

Kuhli

Originally posted by clayt101
I would recomend raising the temp to the mid 80's, and half dosing with ick medication.


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