Help, strange loach behavour

[Andor]

H iin new here

I have a 60 gal tank, 1 plec 4 clowns, everything was fine till i did a recent water change, one of my loaches is up at the top of the tanke doing barral rolls? when i make him notce me he acts fine?? but when im hiding, it floats weird about the top of the tank???

Please hep

Andy

fae Scotland

[loachmom]

Hi Andor,

Welcome to the forum , and I'm sorry that you are having this problem.

It might help others come up with help for you if you give us some more information, such as ammonia, nitrate, and nitrite levels, water temperature, and amount of water that you changed out. Also, how long has this tank been set up? How often do you do water changes?

[shari2]

Did you treat the water for chlorine/chloramine before you added it? (You probably did, but thought I'd ask to be sure. )

Are any of the other clowns affected? Do you see any swelling in the abdomen, or protruding of the eyes?

and welcome to the forum.

[Andor]

I dont need to here XD good clean scottish water

No chloride, i put tap safe in it and balst it out the tap XD

One other is starting to copy it but ive use bromo blue and a green protazen subsatnec, no improment


I love clowns me used to have a massive long tank, 8 clowns XD got 4 now 1 upset/ill???

[Andor]

Dont know why it says im in the US im in Scotland, Dunfemline XD

[andre]

Any chance that you can take a short video of the behaviour? I'm intrigued

[Andor]

Im a school techincian, so i know a bit about water, but i dont check my tank i just let them live they like it so far, but recently one is upset ive had them for 1 year +

vid, how to attach??

[andre]

vid, how to attach??

You'll have to upload them in photobucket or youtube and paste the link in your post.

[Andor]

andorspider@hotmail.com

add me ad i send in messenger XD

[Andor]

only 7.2mb Andre, or are you andy too? lol

[loachmom]

Here's the link to Photobucket.

http://photobucket.com/

You can upload your video or photo there.

[Andor]

Im not siginig up 4 another thing, just MsN me XD

[Andor]

ive sent the pic and vid to the admin dude two are sick now

[chefkeith]

It sounds like osmotic shock to me. The swim bladder gets screwed up because of the shock from the water change. If the fish survives the shock, he may recover, but usually dropsy symptoms will show up and the fish will, well you know the rest. If a fish does recover from osmotic shock, it may even become stunted, and there will be little growth.

I could be wrong though.