Hello
I bought a weather loach back in january, and all has been fine until last weekend. I noticed several red dots/bloches on its underside.
I moved it to a seperate quarantine tank and added a higher dose of salt, which had no effect. I then tried Interpet Internal Bacteria number 9, which cleared up the red spots after a few days.
This is where the confusion/mystery comes in - after a few more days the "skin" of the loach has begun to die and fall off. This has gradually spread higher along its body. After the required number of days I switched to Interpet anti-fungus number 8. Again this has had no effect.
In the 75-80 litre community tank there is:
- 3 loaches (including ill one)- too many I know, 2 of them are still very small though so hopefully not too much of a problem currently
- 2 African Dwarf frogs
- 4 Guppies (1 Male and 3 female) + 3 tiny guppy fry still in own enclosure within tank
- 2 small algae eaters -otocinclus vittatus
- 4 neon tetras
The loach is now is a 5 litre quarentine tank with a small filter (removed the carbon due to medicine), a heater at 25 degrees and a air stone & pump.
Latest readings: Ammonia and nitrite levels in both tanks are 0, ph in community tank is 7.2 and 6.5 in loach's tank. Water changes of 25% weekly in community tank and about 40% daily in quarantine tank, where he has been for just over a week.
Last bits of info, it arches it's "back" so the mid section does not touch the floor and seems to try to relieve irritation by swimming through the bubbles created by the airstone. All the barbels have curled too. I originally thought the injury was from a lava rock in the community tank (now removed) but now I am not sure. Its about 6 inches long too.
substrate is fairly large polished stones
I can provide more photos or details if required, I just really want this loach to live...unsure whether the problem is bacterial, parasitic or fungal
When we bought him he had very bad finrot on his top fin, but we cured it and it has since almost completely grown back. He still eats, but for some reason now only seems interested in the live bloodworm we feed him and not the pellets.
thanks
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I bought a weather loach back in january, and all has been fine until last weekend. I noticed several red dots/bloches on its underside.
I moved it to a seperate quarantine tank and added a higher dose of salt, which had no effect. I then tried Interpet Internal Bacteria number 9, which cleared up the red spots after a few days.
This is where the confusion/mystery comes in - after a few more days the "skin" of the loach has begun to die and fall off. This has gradually spread higher along its body. After the required number of days I switched to Interpet anti-fungus number 8. Again this has had no effect.
In the 75-80 litre community tank there is:
- 3 loaches (including ill one)- too many I know, 2 of them are still very small though so hopefully not too much of a problem currently
- 2 African Dwarf frogs
- 4 Guppies (1 Male and 3 female) + 3 tiny guppy fry still in own enclosure within tank
- 2 small algae eaters -otocinclus vittatus
- 4 neon tetras
The loach is now is a 5 litre quarentine tank with a small filter (removed the carbon due to medicine), a heater at 25 degrees and a air stone & pump.
Latest readings: Ammonia and nitrite levels in both tanks are 0, ph in community tank is 7.2 and 6.5 in loach's tank. Water changes of 25% weekly in community tank and about 40% daily in quarantine tank, where he has been for just over a week.
Last bits of info, it arches it's "back" so the mid section does not touch the floor and seems to try to relieve irritation by swimming through the bubbles created by the airstone. All the barbels have curled too. I originally thought the injury was from a lava rock in the community tank (now removed) but now I am not sure. Its about 6 inches long too.
substrate is fairly large polished stones
I can provide more photos or details if required, I just really want this loach to live...unsure whether the problem is bacterial, parasitic or fungal
When we bought him he had very bad finrot on his top fin, but we cured it and it has since almost completely grown back. He still eats, but for some reason now only seems interested in the live bloodworm we feed him and not the pellets.
thanks
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