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A friend has two clown loaches with velvet and asked what to do for them . I don't have any idea how to advise her to treat this. Advice please.
carol

For velvet with clown loaches: you can treat with ich medicine, but figure out the full dose for the tank and half it. You have to half dose the medicine because the malachite green and formalin will burn them at the full dose. Plus the full dose will kill clown loaches. They are sensitive to medicications, that is why you have to half dose medicine when treating them. Go for as long as the label says on the bottle. After treatment, do a 50% water change. While treating, make sure to take out the carbon, because the carbon will make the medicine useless. I am not sure if raising the temp will help or not with treating velvet. I know it does help in treating ich. As it speeds up the life cycle of the ich.

Thanks for your reply
Carol

You're welcome and I hope that your clowns get better.