White Spots On Clown Loach!
- Thread starter Samj11
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Thought I should update you guys. I've ordered wormer plus yesterday but I don't think it's going to be here in time. Still have my two loaches but they've gone downhill. They're both getting skinny and struggling to swim unfortunately.
Very frustrating, but I did the best I could for them.
Very frustrating, but I did the best I could for them.
Hi. Not been on here for a while. Briefly skimmed through your post and although I maybe a little too late i'm currently treating skinny disease in a botia Dario. I saw this little guy in the shop. He was alone and looked underfed (I wasn't aware of skinny disease)so I took pity on him and brought him home.
I quarantined him in a 15l pre-cycled tank as a precaution.
I thought he was starving but he wouldn't accept any food I feed to my other botia dario. He would completely ignore it. Fortunately I have a pot worm culture and I managed to get him to accept them by feeding them to him with tweezers placed directly in front of his face. He gorged himself on these for a couple of weeks but to my surprise he failed to gain any weight. A typical sign with loaches is a pinched look behind the head where they should have a fuller shape.
I looked further into it and came across the so called skinny disease which is a parasitic worm infection.
The treatment was levamisole. The only source I could of this that didn't require a vet prescription was Harkers liquid wormer for pigeons available from amazon for about a tenner.
I was a little apprehensive but decided to take the plunge. The med contains 80mg/ml of levamisole hydrochloride. I dosed the tank to contain 10mg/l of aquarium water. I regularly changed 50% of the water vacuuming the substrate to remove all fish waste as this is how it is spread through an intermediary host. Also levamisole only paralyses the worm allowing it to be passed out. The replaced water had the med added again to 10mg/l which remained approximately constant throughout. That was 2 months ago.
The result - he is almost ready to go into the main tank with 9 other botia dario. He now readily accepts any food placed in the tank and his appearance is much fuller.He's (or she) cooped up in a 15l so can't wait to see him in the big tank and they'll all go nuts as they establish their new pecking order which is fun to watch.
Possibly too late for you but worthwhile information for anyone looking to purchase loach in the future.
I quarantined him in a 15l pre-cycled tank as a precaution.
I thought he was starving but he wouldn't accept any food I feed to my other botia dario. He would completely ignore it. Fortunately I have a pot worm culture and I managed to get him to accept them by feeding them to him with tweezers placed directly in front of his face. He gorged himself on these for a couple of weeks but to my surprise he failed to gain any weight. A typical sign with loaches is a pinched look behind the head where they should have a fuller shape.
I looked further into it and came across the so called skinny disease which is a parasitic worm infection.
The treatment was levamisole. The only source I could of this that didn't require a vet prescription was Harkers liquid wormer for pigeons available from amazon for about a tenner.
I was a little apprehensive but decided to take the plunge. The med contains 80mg/ml of levamisole hydrochloride. I dosed the tank to contain 10mg/l of aquarium water. I regularly changed 50% of the water vacuuming the substrate to remove all fish waste as this is how it is spread through an intermediary host. Also levamisole only paralyses the worm allowing it to be passed out. The replaced water had the med added again to 10mg/l which remained approximately constant throughout. That was 2 months ago.
The result - he is almost ready to go into the main tank with 9 other botia dario. He now readily accepts any food placed in the tank and his appearance is much fuller.He's (or she) cooped up in a 15l so can't wait to see him in the big tank and they'll all go nuts as they establish their new pecking order which is fun to watch.
Possibly too late for you but worthwhile information for anyone looking to purchase loach in the future.
That's great advice, fenny!
Wormer plus might not be here 'til next week so will have to just hope they can hang in there. They seem a lot more active than yesterday, they're swimming around more so it doesn't look like their on deaths door just yet. (Touch wood).
Wormer plus might not be here 'til next week so will have to just hope they can hang in there. They seem a lot more active than yesterday, they're swimming around more so it doesn't look like their on deaths door just yet. (Touch wood).
KieranBoyne
Moved On
Nice to hear that!! The wormer won't be here until next week!?!? Wasn't there like an express delivery option or something??? :d
KieranBoyne
Moved On
I hate it when that happens. When you need something really urgently, they only ever have 3-5 day delivery, yet if it's something that you want and don't need, it's free next day delivery... lol
But at least you are actually getting it... Hopefully the fish pulls through and the treatment arrives quickly
But at least you are actually getting it... Hopefully the fish pulls through and the treatment arrives quickly
Hi. Not been on here for a while. Briefly skimmed through your post and although I maybe a little too late i'm currently treating skinny disease in a botia Dario. I saw this little guy in the shop. He was alone and looked underfed (I wasn't aware of skinny disease)so I took pity on him and brought him home.
I quarantined him in a 15l pre-cycled tank as a precaution.
I thought he was starving but he wouldn't accept any food I feed to my other botia dario. He would completely ignore it. Fortunately I have a pot worm culture and I managed to get him to accept them by feeding them to him with tweezers placed directly in front of his face. He gorged himself on these for a couple of weeks but to my surprise he failed to gain any weight. A typical sign with loaches is a pinched look behind the head where they should have a fuller shape.
I looked further into it and came across the so called skinny disease which is a parasitic worm infection.
The treatment was levamisole. The only source I could of this that didn't require a vet prescription was Harkers liquid wormer for pigeons available from amazon for about a tenner.
I was a little apprehensive but decided to take the plunge. The med contains 80mg/ml of levamisole hydrochloride. I dosed the tank to contain 10mg/l of aquarium water. I regularly changed 50% of the water vacuuming the substrate to remove all fish waste as this is how it is spread through an intermediary host. Also levamisole only paralyses the worm allowing it to be passed out. The replaced water had the med added again to 10mg/l which remained approximately constant throughout. That was 2 months ago.
The result - he is almost ready to go into the main tank with 9 other botia dario. He now readily accepts any food placed in the tank and his appearance is much fuller.He's (or she) cooped up in a 15l so can't wait to see him in the big tank and they'll all go nuts as they establish their new pecking order which is fun to watch.
Possibly too late for you but worthwhile information for anyone looking to purchase loach in the future.
Very informative. Thank You.
Hope the meds arrive soon. Thank you for the update.
Good Luck.
I quarantined him in a 15l pre-cycled tank as a precaution.
I thought he was starving but he wouldn't accept any food I feed to my other botia dario. He would completely ignore it. Fortunately I have a pot worm culture and I managed to get him to accept them by feeding them to him with tweezers placed directly in front of his face. He gorged himself on these for a couple of weeks but to my surprise he failed to gain any weight. A typical sign with loaches is a pinched look behind the head where they should have a fuller shape.
I looked further into it and came across the so called skinny disease which is a parasitic worm infection.
The treatment was levamisole. The only source I could of this that didn't require a vet prescription was Harkers liquid wormer for pigeons available from amazon for about a tenner.
I was a little apprehensive but decided to take the plunge. The med contains 80mg/ml of levamisole hydrochloride. I dosed the tank to contain 10mg/l of aquarium water. I regularly changed 50% of the water vacuuming the substrate to remove all fish waste as this is how it is spread through an intermediary host. Also levamisole only paralyses the worm allowing it to be passed out. The replaced water had the med added again to 10mg/l which remained approximately constant throughout. That was 2 months ago.
The result - he is almost ready to go into the main tank with 9 other botia dario. He now readily accepts any food placed in the tank and his appearance is much fuller.He's (or she) cooped up in a 15l so can't wait to see him in the big tank and they'll all go nuts as they establish their new pecking order which is fun to watch.
Possibly too late for you but worthwhile information for anyone looking to purchase loach in the future.
Very informative. Thank You.
Hope the meds arrive soon. Thank you for the update.
Good Luck.
Medicine arrived today and it's just been added to the water! Looks a little misty, at the moment, but it'll clear!
Hope this does the trick... still have both my loaches and one of them is very active so fingers crossed. I just hope it's not too late.
Hope this does the trick... still have both my loaches and one of them is very active so fingers crossed. I just hope it's not too late.
KieranBoyne
Moved On
All we can do is hope that it heals them up.. Please work...
Update: I think I'm down to just the one loach. Haven't seen the other one for a few days and there's no sign of the body (unsurprisingly). My loach seems to be doing a bit better (touch wood as I don't want to speak too soon). He doesn't have as much ich on him as before and he's been eating and is hopefully putting on weight, though I can't tell for sure. He's also less active, he's not rushing around everywhere. He's relaxing on the gravel and bogwood which my healthy loach in my other tank does all the time, so it's looking promising.
The product description says it slowly starves the parasite. Would it take a while to kill them?
Any food that will help fatten him up? He's just had flakes the past few days but I will put in some vegetables or frozen food if it'll help.
The product description says it slowly starves the parasite. Would it take a while to kill them?
Any food that will help fatten him up? He's just had flakes the past few days but I will put in some vegetables or frozen food if it'll help.
Fingers crossed the other one is just hiding. Sounds good that the ich is disappearing so sounds like the wormer is working 
, Just be careful about trying to overfeed him to fatten him back up, too much would do more harm than good, and of course foul your water, maybe a little food twice a day for a few days.
, Just be careful about trying to overfeed him to fatten him back up, too much would do more harm than good, and of course foul your water, maybe a little food twice a day for a few days.Similar threads
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