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How long can a clown loach live

Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 11:28 am
by ConnieTam
How long can a clown loach live without eating anything over 20 days?
How long can a clown loach live if she got bloat?
Anyone knows? Any experience ?
My fish that is obviously suffering and beyond help
I want to know if it is probably time to put the fish to sleep :cry: :cry:

Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 7:58 pm
by ConnieTam
No one knows or my english is too bad to understand??
This is the first time I feel helpless with my clown loaches.

Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:31 pm
by zenins
Hi Connie,

Try frequent partial water changes to improve water quality, maybe 20% every couple of days ?
Try adding some aquarium salt (not table salt that has iodine and anti-caking additives) maybe a couple of 5 ml teaspoons with each partial water change.

I have known some fish to not eat for a month when they are not feeling well.

If your loach has a parasite that is causing it to not eat, then treat with metro. I am sure if you do a search on this forum, someone will have described the medication and how to treat your loach.

By the way, your English is just fine :)

Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 11:46 pm
by ConnieTam
Thank you, Zenins.
It is a sad story.
Thank you very much on your valuable time to see my post.


The sad story :http://forums.loaches.com/viewtopic.php?t=19153


Post 2 :http://forums.loaches.com/viewtopic.php?p=173371#173371

Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 11:52 pm
by ConnieTam
Every night I find it's so hard to sleep and I cry for my poor clown loach.

Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 4:56 pm
by FishyLady
I have been following this thread from the start, I am hoping so so much that your clown loach will start to improve, I wish I could suggest something but if he has in fact got a cory stuck inside him the only hope is that it can be digested perhaps and passed out? I will be keeping my fingers crossed for you anyway!!

Val

Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 9:16 pm
by ConnieTam
FishyLady wrote:I have been following this thread from the start, I am hoping so so much that your clown loach will start to improve, I wish I could suggest something but if he has in fact got a cory stuck inside him the only hope is that it can be digested perhaps and passed out? I will be keeping my fingers crossed for you anyway!!

Val
Thank you for your concern,FishyLady.

Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 12:08 am
by Marcos Mataratzis
Hi ConnieTam,

maybe your fish got Camallanus, a nematoid worm. Fish infested with this worm avoid food due to pain in defecation. Medication in those case are nematoid dewormers like Levamisol. There´s also an equivalent medication from german Sera - Sera Nematol, especialy designed for fish. Maybe you could try it.

Good luck!

Re:

Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2018 3:19 pm
by FishyLady
ConnieTam wrote:
Thu Oct 22, 2009 11:52 pm
Every night I find it's so hard to sleep and I cry for my poor clown loach.
How is the loach now?

Re: How long can a clown loach live

Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2018 3:41 pm
by Bas Pels
Again an attempt at trying people to follow a link. This time the topic is very old, 2009, and what's been added does not make sense.

Hence spam in my eyes

Re: How long can a clown loach live

Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2018 1:01 pm
by redshark1
ConnieTam was last seen on Thu Oct 11, 2012 10:39 pm :(

Re: How long can a clown loach live

Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2018 2:05 am
by redshark1
So where's the funny joke?

Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells.

Re: How long can a clown loach live

Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2018 3:46 pm
by ch.koenig
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Re: How long can a clown loach live

Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2018 1:25 pm
by redshark1
I have seen no evidence of admin at work.

Re: How long can a clown loach live

Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2018 5:01 pm
by ch.koenig
I agree. Week-end, heavy snowfall ...?