I have two botia angelica's (loaches), they are suppose to be rare so I can not find a specific thread regarding them.
I have angles in the same fifty five gallon tank. They are battleing illness that resulted from stress caused by mature angles that have long since been removed. Twice I have moved my angles to the hospital tank to treat them with antibiotics and antifungel treatments. They recover and I move them back to the fifty five and they get sick again. The act of netting them and moving them is gotten to be to much for them. I want to treat them with Melafix in their native tank.
The question...Can my botia angelica's tolerate salt, melafix and an increase in temperature without themselves getting sick. My angles cost 3 for $12.00-the loaches $14.99 and thats because the IFS didn't know what they had.
I don't want to go with a stonger treatment because
1. I have two swords and want to intoduce red claw crabs back into the tank. (Copper issue.)
2. The swords and my butterfly are perfectly healthy and I don't want to stress them.
3. So are the loaches and there more precious than the angles.
Sorry its so long but I want any one offering help to understand whats been goin on.
I have angles in the same fifty five gallon tank. They are battleing illness that resulted from stress caused by mature angles that have long since been removed. Twice I have moved my angles to the hospital tank to treat them with antibiotics and antifungel treatments. They recover and I move them back to the fifty five and they get sick again. The act of netting them and moving them is gotten to be to much for them. I want to treat them with Melafix in their native tank.
The question...Can my botia angelica's tolerate salt, melafix and an increase in temperature without themselves getting sick. My angles cost 3 for $12.00-the loaches $14.99 and thats because the IFS didn't know what they had.
I don't want to go with a stonger treatment because
1. I have two swords and want to intoduce red claw crabs back into the tank. (Copper issue.)
2. The swords and my butterfly are perfectly healthy and I don't want to stress them.
3. So are the loaches and there more precious than the angles.
Sorry its so long but I want any one offering help to understand whats been goin on.