White lines/dry or cracked skin on clown loach
Posted: Sat May 26, 2018 4:15 pm
Hi,
New to the forum but wanted to get some advice.
Recently we added some red phantoms to our 180L tank and everything seemed fine. A few days later I noticed that 2 of the phantoms looked unusual- covered in loads of white bumps. This had also spread to the clown loaches in the tank- white spots/bumps all over their bodies, tails and even on one of their eyes.
After a quick look online it suggested it was ich and to treat with formaldehyde and malachite green so a quick visit to the shop and we have been using this as directed on the bottle. All of the affected fish have now returned to normal- eyes look healthy and no visible white spots/bumps anywhere.
However, one of the clown loaches (the smallest one) appears to have white lines on his body and it looks like cracked skin. I am not sure what this is or why it has happened. Other than these marks on the body it is eating and swimming normally as it was before the initial outbreak- I am hopeful that this is just him recovering but wanted to get some advice.
Thank you
New to the forum but wanted to get some advice.
Recently we added some red phantoms to our 180L tank and everything seemed fine. A few days later I noticed that 2 of the phantoms looked unusual- covered in loads of white bumps. This had also spread to the clown loaches in the tank- white spots/bumps all over their bodies, tails and even on one of their eyes.
After a quick look online it suggested it was ich and to treat with formaldehyde and malachite green so a quick visit to the shop and we have been using this as directed on the bottle. All of the affected fish have now returned to normal- eyes look healthy and no visible white spots/bumps anywhere.
However, one of the clown loaches (the smallest one) appears to have white lines on his body and it looks like cracked skin. I am not sure what this is or why it has happened. Other than these marks on the body it is eating and swimming normally as it was before the initial outbreak- I am hopeful that this is just him recovering but wanted to get some advice.
Thank you