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This is not "bloat." These are enormous blisters, as I said. Subcutaneous bubbles of some sort.

Since my last post here, I isolated him, treated with 2 different courses of antibiotics, and returned him to the main tank after a week in isolation. The largest blister has apparently popped, and it ...

Austen,

I infer you are responding to my earlier post about a still earlier pic of a ballooning loach.

I despair of using this website: my earlier post, to which you seem to respond, does not appear in the bleeping thread! And my several earlier attempts to log on were greeted by an error message ...

atmichaels:

I was going to upload a pic on Picasa, but then I found one from this forum that's exactly like my fish:

https://www.google.com/search?q=clown+loach+swelling&rlz=1T4ASUM_enUS472US473&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjTz-KnxtLKAhUD4iYKHfMHD4AQ_AUIBygB&biw=1600&bih=857#imgrc=ldqT ...

I'm new here; this is my first post. (The one I tried to post yesterday apparently did not survive, notwithstanding the note that proclaimed success).

I have a 90 gallon planted discus tank, with 3 clown loaches as part of the cleanup crew. My parameters are excellent: no ammonia or nitrites ...

I'm new here; this is my first post.

I have a 90 gallon planted discus tank, with 3 clown loaches as part of the cleanup crew. The biggest (about 7 years old) has lately developed ENORMOUS bags on his underside. I mean ENORMOUS -- the size of his head. This is not "bloat." It looks like someone has ...