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by sickfish
Sat May 19, 2018 6:47 am
Forum: Fish Health & Treatment
Topic: my 8" clown loach stopped eating, getting skinny, help!
Replies: 17
Views: 32655

Re: my 8" clown loach stopped eating, getting skinny, help!

Thanks Loachloach; Your experience in this matter is very assuring to me because in my 20 some years in fishkeeping I've never had to treat the large tank before. I have always had good luck with the fish I get from our local pet store, the owner has been in the pet store business for 40+ years and ...
by sickfish
Fri May 18, 2018 6:56 pm
Forum: Fish Health & Treatment
Topic: my 8" clown loach stopped eating, getting skinny, help!
Replies: 17
Views: 32655

Re: my 8" clown loach stopped eating, getting skinny, help!

Loachloach; thanks again for your help,I have a few more questions. My loach in the 20 gal. hospital tank is doing much better. she quit expelling worms about 2 days ago just after my last post. The worms were about 3/8" long clear to opaque whitish color, with a black head on the end, seem to be de...
by sickfish
Wed May 16, 2018 10:24 am
Forum: Fish Health & Treatment
Topic: my 8" clown loach stopped eating, getting skinny, help!
Replies: 17
Views: 32655

Re: my 8" clown loach stopped eating, getting skinny, help!

Hey loachloach; It's been 5 days now since I finished her 5 day treatment and everyday I'm still vacuuming up clear worms with a black head about 3/8 's of an inch long from the tank. How long will it take for her to expel all the worms that were in her? I've vacuumed up at least a few hundred so fa...
by sickfish
Fri May 11, 2018 6:57 am
Forum: Fish Health & Treatment
Topic: my 8" clown loach stopped eating, getting skinny, help!
Replies: 17
Views: 32655

Re: my 8" clown loach stopped eating, getting skinny, help!

Update; 5/11/18 After 5 days of flubendazole treatment and subsequent water changes my clown loach is starting to become more active and eating frozen blood worms. Last night I fed her 2 small clumps of the frozen blood worms that I thawed and she aggressively gobbled them up in a short amount of ti...
by sickfish
Sun Apr 29, 2018 7:17 am
Forum: Fish Health & Treatment
Topic: my 8" clown loach stopped eating, getting skinny, help!
Replies: 17
Views: 32655

Re: my 8" clown loach stopped eating, getting skinny, help!

Thanks LL; I'm sorry I missed that part of the thread when I read it. I'm new to forum posting and reading stuff in forums and didn't feel the scenario in the other posting was the same as my situation so I may have not read it that far. By the time you wrote me I had already started the antibiotic ...
by sickfish
Sat Apr 28, 2018 7:07 am
Forum: Fish Health & Treatment
Topic: my 8" clown loach stopped eating, getting skinny, help!
Replies: 17
Views: 32655

Re: my 8" clown loach stopped eating, getting skinny, help!

Thanks LL, I've read the link you mentioned but my clown has no physical outer signs of any skin abnormalities or coloration. It looks fine except it is skinny and not acting normally.I moved her into a 20 gal. tank by herself and I started the anti biotics treatment yesterday before I went to work ...
by sickfish
Fri Apr 27, 2018 9:28 am
Forum: Fish Health & Treatment
Topic: my 8" clown loach stopped eating, getting skinny, help!
Replies: 17
Views: 32655

my 8" clown loach stopped eating, getting skinny, help!

I've had my 170 gal tank set up over 20 years and this pair of loaches have been in there about 20 years. all other tank occupants are well and are mostly tetra's (black, serpae, buenos airies, white clouds, a few small others) and 2 chocolate cats (also 20 years old) and 1 large silver dollar about...