Clown Loach

[centuryan]

hi all

not sure thats an emergency but............

have 2 clown loach, they both acting fine, stil being their busy selves.......

only prob is that one of them has gone pale.... all of his black stripes have gone really pale, he seems fine except his colouring..

any ideas

thanks

lee

 

[electric yellow]

Hi!

We have two clown loaches. Both a few inches long. Still very active like yours. Our bigger one tends to one day be pale then another full of colour. I often think he is sick but its just his colour. When you say pale...do you mean ghostly white or just a few shades lighter?

Ours still eats fine and swims round fine.

What are you tank dwellers and water stats?

 

[centuryan]

thanks for the reply..........

i will re do water stats today or tomos.........have had the tank for a coupe of weeks now

its been a tricky process as ive bought the tank second hand...............

the filter pump was broke when i bought the tank with the fish,

so ive had to put in a new fluval filter and put the old filters in to get as much media in as poss............

im now doing water changes every other day too.........only thing is i only have the strip test kits which i dont think are any good,

will try and get a liquid test kit poss tomos to get true readings of the water.

thanks

lee

 

[electric yellow]

You have only had the tank a few weeks? Have you let it cycle?

 

[centuryan]

You have only had the tank a few weeks? Have you let it cycle?

sorry.....not sure i explained properly........

this tank has been up and running for a year before we bought it..........

when i picked it up, i bought back half of the original water out of it and put all the old filters in water bags to keep i all good,

when i reset the tank up back at home......i put the 50% of water back in from the original set up........then put the old filters in..........then obs 50% of new water...with tapsafe in it..............

 

[electric yellow]

Ah ok thanks.

 

[howard2345]

Mine did that before when the water temperature dropped, it was before I had a thermometer and couldnt tell that heater had broke.

Went normal afterwards.

Perhaps its a stress thing. I only have one, dont know if that makes a difference.

 

[8inary]

I have 4 large (5"-6") clown loaches, they do go pale when in an aggressive state, sometimes, you will also hear a clicking noise.

notwithstanding my suggestion, you may just check the water states also.

 

[dcarmor927]

I think what you are seeing is the dominant clown loach "graying out"...

if it looks like that then they are fine...its just a dominance issue...also if you have the space, you should try to get more loaches, they like to be in groups of five or more...how big is the tank?

for more info, look here:
[URL="http/www.loaches.com/articles/clown-loac...king-variations"]http/www.loaches.com/articles/clown-loac...king-variations[/URL]

 

[tunerhead24]

i have 4 clown loaches and they all do the same thing, like dcarmor927 said its just a dominant thing, they also wrestle each other it looks like there kissing, its real funny to watch.