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This is not "bloat." These are enormous blisters, as I said. Subcutaneous bubbles of some sort. Since my last post here, I isolated him, treated with 2 different courses of antibiotics, and returned him to the main tank after a week in isolation. The largest blister has apparently popped, and it loo...

Austen, I infer you are responding to my earlier post about a still earlier pic of a ballooning loach. I despair of using this website: my earlier post, to which you seem to respond, does not appear in the bleeping thread! And my several earlier attempts to log on were greeted by an error message --...

atmichaels: I was going to upload a pic on Picasa, but then I found one from this forum that's exactly like my fish: https://www.google.com/search?q=clown+loach+swelling&rlz=1T4ASUM_enUS472US473&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjTz-KnxtLKAhUD4iYKHfMHD4AQ_AUIBygB&biw=1600&bih=857#imgrc=ldqT-SONS8...

I'm new here; this is my first post. (The one I tried to post yesterday apparently did not survive, notwithstanding the note that proclaimed success). I have a 90 gallon planted discus tank, with 3 clown loaches as part of the cleanup crew. My parameters are excellent: no ammonia or nitrites, nitrat...

I'm new here; this is my first post. I have a 90 gallon planted discus tank, with 3 clown loaches as part of the cleanup crew. The biggest (about 7 years old) has lately developed ENORMOUS bags on his underside. I mean ENORMOUS -- the size of his head. This is not "bloat." It looks like someone has ...