Sick Clown Loaches

[kev350d]

R.I.P.
The blotches on the clown could of been ammonia burns they are scaless fish.

Especially as they seem located to the head area on your photo, as this is where the clown loach has no scales.

Is there plenty of O2 getting diffused into the water as all your stats seem spot on and its always a worry when something see's your fish off so quick without warning, poor water quality can do this but rarely a bacterial, parasitic outbreak takes your fish so quick.. I'd personally re-check your water and double check it as for this to be noticed just yesterday and already you have dead loaches and rams not looking good it would certainly point to water conditions, ammonia, nitrites even heavy metals, chlorine from tap water.

 

[rodandalisonthompson]

R.I.P.
The blotches on the clown could of been ammonia burns they are scaless fish.

Especially as they seem located to the head area on your photo, as this is where the clown loach has no scales.

Is there plenty of O2 getting diffused into the water as all your stats seem spot on and its always a worry when something see's your fish off so quick without warning, poor water quality can do this but rarely a bacterial, parasitic outbreak takes your fish so quick.. I'd personally re-check your water and double check it as for this to be noticed just yesterday and already you have dead loaches and rams not looking good it would certainly point to water conditions, ammonia, nitrites even heavy metals, chlorine from tap water.

I found a Congo Tetra dead this morning but things seem to have stabilised since. The blue rams are back up and swimming around again and look pretty much normal.

I took one of the dead fish to my LFS today who reckoned it looked like ammonia burns from Saturday even though I caught it quickly and did a 25% water change.

Decided that id had enough of the internal juwel filters and while I was there I bought a Fluval 305 which I have now added in addition to the juwel filter and my water clarity improved significantly in just a few hours. I bought some ph- and ph+ solutions and also bought a battery ph meter which showed the ph was 7.8 so decided to leave it for now.

Tested the water again today; all OK. Tested GH - 13, Cu - 0. Only one im concerned about was my iron - it was 0 but I have quite a heavily planted tank.

I wish I knew what caused the rise in ammonia on Saturday - it was fine earlier in the week and I caught it reasonably quickly and rectified the problem. Im hoping a better filter will make a difference.

 

[WILDER]

I run another filter in my juwel tanks.
Did you squeeze some benefical bacteria off the juwel sponges onto the new filter sponges to get them going.

 

[rodandalisonthompson]

I run another filter in my juwel tanks.
Did you squeeze some benefical bacteria off the juwel sponges onto the new filter sponges to get them going.

I didnt do anything to the new filter as the existing internal juwel filter is still running?

Should i be doing something?

 

[WILDER]

Usually it best to squeeze some bacteria onto the wet new sponges off your old sponges to seed them and get them going.