Please help, is my clown dying???
Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 2:20 pm
I have two clown loaches, one black moor and one golden dojo in a 20 gallon tank. The one clown loach is about 3.5 in and def. the alpha since our calico goldfish died. He was dominating the tank and everything was fine until he died. Now my second clown loach who is about 1.5 inches and was attached at the hip to the other clown is now going downhill. He is getting smaller and his body is being drained its so thin. He will not stop swimming vertically at the top and refuses to go to the bottom, sometimes he's on his side at the top as well. I thought maybe swim bladder bc that's what happened to our goldfish but I put him in his own bowl and he's just frozen on the bottom. He is losing his color and his tail is getting pale and whitish. I used a treatment of API tetracycline, did water and filter changes with Prime and nothing is helping. His body looks like a vampire is sucking the life out of him! He barely eats and is constantly moving when he used to sleep on bottom in a cave w the alpha. I'm sorry this is rambling but can someone please help, even the dojo seems depressed and all happened after the huge calico died, the next day the dynamic changed. Any help???? I love him and I'm so sad to watch him in stress.
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