Getting Rid Of Ick On Clown Loaches

[LoachLover]

I had a tank full of fish (mbunas and barbs) with my clown loaches and one of them came down with ich when I put some crushed coral in the filter to raise the ph for the mbunas. Well it raised it instantly like up a whole point (to ph 8.0). One of the clown loaches came down with ich BAD. I know you live and you learn it was stupid.

Anyway.....I dosed them with the amount of salt someone recommended to me and upped the temp to I think it was 80-82 degrees, for 3-6 weeks I think it was. I didn't add all the salt at one time...just a nice dose everyday...took me a week to get the right dose in there....I had already learned my lesson about changing things too fast.


It cured the ich and everyone was fine....just make sure you do a water change immediately after treatment is over.

Interesting, I might test the salt one out again and see how it goes.

 

[Iron Man]

Well I had already heard clown loaches were very susceptable to ich and not to stress them out, and I always had one that would lose the black stripes and turn grey.....which is a sign of stress. Never knew why he did it but all of a sudden he'd just get really stressed....esp. when time to eat. Maybe he was having loach panic attacks. I figured if any of them were to go he'd be the first one and sure enough he's the one who came down with something with I added that crushed coral.

I felt bad treating the whole tank because he was the only one with it but I didn't have a hospital tank for him at the time and I knew the ich was floating around in that water waiting for the next victim to weaken a little so I just treated everyone.

If I recall correctly I think it was the same dose mentioned before....2 teaspoons per gallon. I had a 55 gallon so it was A LOT!


Just remember to do this GRADUALLY.

 

[LoachLover]

Personally I think Clown Loaches are generally very hardy, I've only lost 2 and one was because I had to move him across the country