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How long can a clown loach live

Post by ConnieTam » Wed Oct 21, 2009 11:28 am

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:
Try all my efforts to keep my fish happy.

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Post by ConnieTam » Wed Oct 21, 2009 7:58 pm

No one knows or my english is too bad to understand??
This is the first time I feel helpless with my clown loaches.
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Post by zenins » Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:31 pm

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 :)
Zenin

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Post by ConnieTam » Thu Oct 22, 2009 11:46 pm

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
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Post by ConnieTam » 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.
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Post by FishyLady » Fri Oct 23, 2009 4:56 pm

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
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Post by ConnieTam » Fri Oct 23, 2009 9:16 pm

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.
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Post by Marcos Mataratzis » Sat Oct 24, 2009 12:08 am

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.

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Post by FishyLady » Fri Sep 14, 2018 3:19 pm

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?
Better the chaos of creativity than the tidiness of idleness.

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Re: How long can a clown loach live

Post by Bas Pels » Fri Sep 14, 2018 3:41 pm

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

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Re: How long can a clown loach live

Post by redshark1 » Sun Sep 16, 2018 1:01 pm

ConnieTam was last seen on Thu Oct 11, 2012 10:39 pm :(
6 x Clown Loaches all 30 years of age on 01.01.2024, largest 11.5", 2 large females, 4 smaller males, aquarium 6' x 18" x 18" 400 ltr/90 uk gal/110 US gal. approx.

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Re: How long can a clown loach live

Post by redshark1 » Thu Sep 20, 2018 2:05 am

So where's the funny joke?

Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells.
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Re: How long can a clown loach live

Post by ch.koenig » Thu Dec 06, 2018 3:46 pm

I started to report all so admin can work.
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Re: How long can a clown loach live

Post by redshark1 » Sun Dec 09, 2018 1:25 pm

I have seen no evidence of admin at work.
6 x Clown Loaches all 30 years of age on 01.01.2024, largest 11.5", 2 large females, 4 smaller males, aquarium 6' x 18" x 18" 400 ltr/90 uk gal/110 US gal. approx.

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Re: How long can a clown loach live

Post by ch.koenig » Sun Dec 09, 2018 5:01 pm

I agree. Week-end, heavy snowfall ...?

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