Bubble_B0y
Aquarium Advice Addict
I'm using a combination of heat and salt treatment.
Those clowns really do stress easily.
Those clowns really do stress easily.
UGH !!! clown loaches are VERY sensitive to ich.
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Zagz
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Do not use salt with clown loaches. They have no scales and the salt will not do them well. The heat on the other hand works great.
Bubble_B0y
Aquarium Advice Addict
really?
i didn't know that
i have to do a water change
i didn't know that
i have to do a water change
Zagz
Aquarium Advice Addict
I lost 3 loaches to salt additive. Just about any search you can do will tell you loaches do not do well with salt. Good luck.
evercl92
Aquarium Advice FINatic
Loaches: no salt, no "ich meds"
What I've found to work wonders:
>50-75% water change with gravel vac (lessens the overall number of the ich protozoan in the water)
>replace with rather warm water
>get an air stone going, if you don't already have one - warmer water has less oxygen carrying capacity
>increase temperature to at least 86deg - anything less, and you're not helping the situation
>a lot of people suggest raising the temp slowly, but often times when it's noticed that loaches have ich, you don't have the time to spare to do it slowly. Increase temp 4-6 deg every 12hrs, until reaching 86deg
>1/2 dose with melafix
day 2, 3, 4:
>50% water change (see reason above)
>1/2 dose melafix
days 5-14:
>50% wc if they are still looking bad
>keep temp at 86deg for at least 2 weeks after last sign of ich is gone
What I've found to work wonders:
>50-75% water change with gravel vac (lessens the overall number of the ich protozoan in the water)
>replace with rather warm water
>get an air stone going, if you don't already have one - warmer water has less oxygen carrying capacity
>increase temperature to at least 86deg - anything less, and you're not helping the situation
>a lot of people suggest raising the temp slowly, but often times when it's noticed that loaches have ich, you don't have the time to spare to do it slowly. Increase temp 4-6 deg every 12hrs, until reaching 86deg
>1/2 dose with melafix
day 2, 3, 4:
>50% water change (see reason above)
>1/2 dose melafix
days 5-14:
>50% wc if they are still looking bad
>keep temp at 86deg for at least 2 weeks after last sign of ich is gone
