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Emma: Thanks for the input (and the picture). I'll keep an eye on him.

If it doesn't retract, is it something to be worried about? No damage to his tank mates yet.

-V

Ah, the never ending fun with loaches. "What the heck is wrong with him now?!" I've got a clown loach with a "stuck" sub-ocular spine. Right hand side spine's out, left isn't. I don't think he can get it back in, frankly. Looks a little odd just swimming around happily with his group, brandishing hi...

Resurrection, forgive me. Thanks for all the replies. The Lavamisole's not having much of an effect. The skinny loach seems to have gone from eating and spitting it out to just not caring in perhaps a week's worth of treatment (two doses, one administered at 2ppm, then a vacuum/WC at 36 hours, follo...

Hi LOL'ers. I have a clown loach with all the classic signs of wasting disease (skinny enough to see the skeletal structure, spitting out food, low energy). I'm planning on treating the whole 55gal tank, mostly due to the amount of loaches in the tank and the progression of the disease in the one wh...