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Thank you to all of you for your advice. He's starting to eat from my hand, and is still as active as ever so I'm hoping for the best. I'll keep a close eye on him (no pun intended!) but for now things look good.

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I have a weather loach approximately 4 years old. A few months ago he lost his right eye, this has now healed to a smooth surface. I've now noticed that his remaining left eye has gone cloudy. I think he must have knocked it on a rough bit of stone, he's always been very active especially at night. ...

Bad news I'm afraid - when I got up this morning he was floating upside down as well. He was very sluggish, made no attempt to move away from me. I had to euthanase him, was so upset.

Thank you for your help though, if it happens to any of the others I'll know what to do.

Thanks for the info. It does look like the problem is his swim bladder. I've actually cut a length of plastic pipe and stuck it horizontally near the surface using some heater sucker pads, he very often spends hours in there. Have you got any suggestions on antibiotics I can use please?

The temp is between 24 - 26, which is room temperature. I don't use a heater. The external filter is the canister sort which sits in a cupboard underneath the tank. The tank is planted with 2 onion bulbs and lots of elodea (the only things the weather loaches can't destroy!!). It's difficult to keep...

The only other signs are that he seems to be breathing rapidly and he does look paler than normal. Tank has been set up for over 2 years and I haven't changed anything or done anything differently for ages!! I couldn't say about the PH or anything without taking a sample to my LFS which unfortunatel...

Everything else in my tank is fine, including the other 3 weather loaches. I've had them for over a year and everything's been okay up til now! No changes to the tank recently, no new chemicals, fish or anything!

Please can anyone help! I have a 4ft community tank with various fish, all friendly!! including 4 weather (dojo) loaches. Recently one of the loaches seems to float, he struggles to get to the bottom of the tank and is obviously really miserable. I've been trying interpet internal bacterial remedy b...