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by icewind
Sun Oct 16, 2011 1:57 am
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: moving clown loaches to their new home
Replies: 5
Views: 6193

Re: moving clown loaches to their new home

ok all at the risk of being annoying at all the questions I have been posting, I am just wanting to give an update on the status of the loaches being moved to their new home! I made the dicission to move the frontosa to the other tank and he seems to be adjusting very well so far. That took away the...
by icewind
Fri Oct 14, 2011 7:02 pm
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: moving clown loaches to their new home
Replies: 5
Views: 6193

Re: moving clown loaches to their new home

yes I am rather expecting another outbreak of ich when moving them to the larger tank, only because it has happened everytime I have added fish even with them being Q for at least a month! So I guess this means they will have to be in the Q tank for a few more months before adding them, I dont worry...
by icewind
Fri Oct 14, 2011 2:00 pm
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: moving clown loaches to their new home
Replies: 5
Views: 6193

Re: moving clown loaches to their new home

Sorry, I didnt mention that the larger tank the smaller clowns will be moving to also has a larger 4-5" clown loach that has been in there for over a year, he lost his mates back in May due to an ich outbreak, that was introduced when I added 3 yellow labs, who had also been in QT for over a month! ...
by icewind
Fri Oct 14, 2011 1:55 pm
Forum: Loach Forum
Topic: moving clown loaches to their new home
Replies: 5
Views: 6193

moving clown loaches to their new home

I had posted about a month ago concerning my clown loaches with ich, and happy to say we have come out of that with no loss of life and they clowns are doing great!! They have been in QT for a little over a month now and I feel safe to move them to the bigger tank, but not sure if the smallest on wh...
by icewind
Fri Sep 30, 2011 2:21 pm
Forum: Fish Health & Treatment
Topic: clowns in QT have ich
Replies: 3
Views: 5124

Re: clowns in QT have ich

Not sure if anyone even reads these postings, but just wanted to give an update on the clowns with ich. I started using the ick Guard by Tetra as its the only one I could find on Sunday night. One of the clown loaches was covered pretty bad, the other 2 showed only slight visible signs, I did a 50% ...
by icewind
Mon Sep 26, 2011 1:25 am
Forum: Fish Health & Treatment
Topic: clowns in QT have ich
Replies: 3
Views: 5124

Re: clowns in QT have ich

Sorry, seems I jumed the gun in writing to you regarding the ich in my QT, as now I look there is excellent advise by Garame Robeson on the subject, very informative and much appreciated! Thanks and sorry for being too quick to post before reading other post, still new to the forum thing and learnin...
by icewind
Mon Sep 26, 2011 1:17 am
Forum: Fish Health & Treatment
Topic: clowns in QT have ich
Replies: 3
Views: 5124

clowns in QT have ich

Hi I am new to this forum and wonder if you could give me some advise as to how to treat ich in the clown loaches! I have been online for an hour looking up info and now am more confused than ever! :? Some say yes to salt and higher temp, some say no salt. I have 3 loaches left in the QT tank, the s...
by icewind
Sat Sep 24, 2011 11:34 pm
Forum: Fish Health & Treatment
Topic: dying loaches
Replies: 1
Views: 3513

dying loaches

I have a 75g peacock cichlid tank, that until last May also had 3 beautiful clowns. Unfortunatly after having 3 yellow labs in QT for a month, after adding them to the tank a week later came down with a horrible case of ich anyway. By the time I noticed it after being gone a few days, the poor clown...