Help!

[Ashcow]

hi i hav had my tank for about 1 and 1/2 months now and everything was going fine but today i woke up and one of my clown loaches had a red mark on it and it looked very saw. i went to my local pet shop abd the man said it had a ulcer but when i got home i saw the anouthe rclown loach bitting at the mark. so i have put in some bacterial control and i have seperated the wounded fish and i need a second oppinion. at the moment the fish is just lay there not moving but still breathing and i am quiet worried please can sombody help me.

 

[aaronnorth]

Loaches need to be in groups of 5+

I have 2 clowns for 1year now and they get on well, but if anything went wrong i was, and i still am prepared to get more

 

[loachman]

How many loaches do you have and what are you tank size/parameters?

 

[Colin_T]

be careful when using medications with loaches are they are scaleless fish that won't tolerate a full dose of many drugs.
Remove any carbon from the filter before you medicate otherwise the carbon will remove it for you.

 

[Thomas 2507]

Loaches prefer to live in groups. Also, make sure your loaches are all of a similar size.

 

[aaronnorth]

be careful when using medications with loaches are they are scaleless fish that won't tolerate a full dose of many drugs.
Remove any carbon from the filter before you medicate otherwise the carbon will remove it for you.

-Add extra oxygen aswell. when i dose with meds, i do 50% then the other 50% 1-2 days later

 

[Ashcow]

thanks alot for all of your tips i ha two males and a female so that might be the problem so i will buy 2 more females as these are my favorite fish. cant you tell im new to this lol and again thanks for the tips see ya

 

[fergalthefish]

thanks alot for all of your tips i ha two males and a female so that might be the problem so i will buy 2 more females as these are my favorite fish. cant you tell im new to this lol and again thanks for the tips see ya

may i ask how you sex loaches?

 

[Ashcow]

thanks alot for all of your tips i ha two males and a female so that might be the problem so i will buy 2 more females as these are my favorite fish. cant you tell im new to this lol and again thanks for the tips see ya

may i ask how you sex loaches?

Mature fish deepen considerably and females tend to be bulkier. There are various theories about caudal fin lobe shapes being different hope this helps you

 

[TammyLiz]

thanks alot for all of your tips i ha two males and a female so that might be the problem so i will buy 2 more females as these are my favorite fish. cant you tell im new to this lol and again thanks for the tips see ya

may i ask how you sex loaches?

Mature fish deepen considerably and females tend to be bulkier. There are various theories about caudal fin lobe shapes being different hope this helps you

Hey there. I doubt you have mature fish. Clown loaches grow to 8 or 12 inches in length--even more than that in the wild--and it takes many years for them to reach this size. If you've only had the tank for 1 1/2 months you probably didn't buy fully grown clowns.

Someone said above that it is important for them to all be the same size but this is incorrect. Your largest will be dominant and the smaller ones will simply follow along. If you have one that is the same or almost the same size as the largest they may periodically fight for dominance. This is normal and they usually do not harm each other.

Adding more to the group is always a good idea if your tank is large enough. Adult clowns need a 6 foot tank but younger ones will do fine in a 4 foot tank.

HTH.

 

[Ashcow]

thanks alot for all of your tips i ha two males and a female so that might be the problem so i will buy 2 more females as these are my favorite fish. cant you tell im new to this lol and again thanks for the tips see ya

may i ask how you sex loaches?

Mature fish deepen considerably and females tend to be bulkier. There are various theories about caudal fin lobe shapes being different hope this helps you

Hey there. I doubt you have mature fish. Clown loaches grow to 8 or 12 inches in length--even more than that in the wild--and it takes many years for them to reach this size. If you've only had the tank for 1 1/2 months you probably didn't buy fully grown clowns.

Someone said above that it is important for them to all be the same size but this is incorrect. Your largest will be dominant and the smaller ones will simply follow along. If you have one that is the same or almost the same size as the largest they may periodically fight for dominance. This is normal and they usually do not harm each other.

Adding more to the group is always a good idea if your tank is large enough. Adult clowns need a 6 foot tank but younger ones will do fine in a 4 foot tank.

HTH.

my clown loaches are about 7 inches long as i got my clown loaches off a friend whos tank was to small

 

[mrbudgie]

I have 9 in my tank ranging from 5 or 6 inches al the way to an inch and they all follow the biggest around like a train largest to smallest,

they do squabble when young amongst the young ones only, but i would imagine this is playing, they will normally click when doing this.

only treatments you will need to be carefull with is whitespot treatment, so use the w3 whitespot treatment the doses are very small because you use drops instead, but it is a lot stronger than the other white spot treatments.

Also sometimes clown loaches get what looks like whitespot when stressed so never put your treatment in straight away, just give it a day to see if it goes away.

if your water quality drops at all you'll know very quickly keeping clowns because their black will turn to grey very quickly.

and the last thing is sometimes they sleep motionless on their side, dont panic this is normal...

 

[aaronnorth]

only treatments you will need to be carefull with is whitespot treatment, so use the w3 whitespot treatment the doses are very small because you use drops instead, but it is a lot stronger than the other white spot treatments.

They react to every medication, i used finrot and they reacted badly, as do most if not all bottom feeders as they are scaless.