he's been swimming around a little more today but when he does he keeps flicking/rubbing his gills on the bogwood and rocks which leads me to your comments about gill flukes, its going to be difficuit to see in his gills i think as he isn't very big plus i don't have a magnifying glass :-(
I done a 60% water change and added water conditioner + added melafix + added interpet anti internal bacterial treatment as i suspect it to be secptacimia or a gill infection/gill flukes or along those lines, all medications i have added are fully compatable with each other and i have used this...
i have 8 tanks in all and this tank has been setup for 4 years and this is the lowest stock i have ever had in there!, there's two external fluval filters running in there and an internal fluval 4 (since new), the water stats are fine (as always) with no ammonia at all and i have performed a 40%...
When the other Clown Loachs got this they didn't get thin but did stop eating like this one has, he has stayed up in the corner by the breeding traps for most of yesterday and today like the others did, the other two died within 3-5 days and this one is on day two so need to be quick really to...
Water Stats - 17:25:
PH - 7.5
Ammonia - <0
Nitrate - 30
Nitrite - 0.1
Stats seem fine as usual (they don't change much at all in this tank),
meds were not put in at the same time, there's more than enough air getting into the tank and tons of filteration, any ideas?
Hi all, i have another sick clown loach :(, i have lost 3 to the exact same symptoms so would like some advice please to try and save this one as i only have two left :cry:
Symptoms:
Very rapid gill movements
Staying right at top of the tank with his snout out the water (looks like gasping...