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From 3 clowns (who are expecting company of their own around September) there is 2 with a higher body and one with a lower. That more streamline one shows possible tubercles. I found coincidently when testing a borrowed camera...

Are these possibly male clown´s tubercles?



BTW... you can see also a little hole in the lower left corner of the pic. He has this for at least a year now...won´t heal... shouldn´t fins recover?

Thanks

Wolfram

i cant see the tubercles..

The hole cant regenerate...i have it on my 2 year old clown...even melafix, it wont work..

Yes, those are tubercules.....on top of his head ckk125.

By "hole" do you mean the yellow spot on the fin? If it's been there a long time, I doubt it will heal.

Martin.

are those deadly?

It's not a disease it's a physical characteristic of particularly many Cyprinid fish. Males get tubercules at certain times of the year when they are sexually mature.
This has only recently been identified in Clown loaches.

Martin.

ckk, there was a major discussion of tubercules on clowns sometime back.
http://forums.loaches.com/viewtopic.php ... ules#34213

Within that thread I linked is a link to a previous thread on the subject that rather started things off. Got a bit argumentative, but great pics, new info and ... well personalities.

Thanks all!

I posted instantly because my large clown has it..

Understandable

It's actually a sign of good health. They won't get them unless they are well fed and feeling good.

Martin.

Thanks Martin,

... so he´s mature now... wonder what he is going to do ...

Cheers

Wolfram

Looks like he´s doing it again...

Interesting. I had always been told that they get those when there was a drastic change in water quality, for the good or bad. I guess i was misinformed. One of my larger clowns has this.

I've noticed this on all my clowns... even ones on around 3". Does this mean they are all males?

crazy loaches wrote:I've noticed this on all my clowns... even ones on around 3". Does this mean they are all males?

If not confused with sensory pores, they may be... as usual, I am relying on the great info. I get here ... ain´t got no idea by myself...
But it´s only that one clown, who shows that, and he is the slimest of the 3. The new slim one I have got, never shows and hides too much, even though “he” is the 2nd largest now, when I got him he did not show tubercles.

clownloachfan wrote:Interesting. I had always been told that they get those when there was a drastic change in water quality, for the good or bad. I guess i was misinformed. One of my larger clowns has this.

Hmmm… actually I´m currently assuming to have a problem with some kind of bacteria …before that the clowns also got a new tank with new water (but still connected to old tank with same bio-filter). They are not out as much out, as they normally are neither, that´s why I assume they notice the bacteria stress – or they just observe me being a little dense due to that and feel alarmed?
… but I need to mention, I added a slim clown, who looks identical in size (4”) and pattern as my 3 “big” guys. That addition did irritate the others, I lways thought the more than merrier… but now I´m buffeld. I also added 2 small ones to get larger group, the addition of the approx 1,25” ones did not make any difference, the “big” ones treatm them very kind. I have now 6 in total.

Well I was able to get my largest one on camera yesterday. Its difficult to get a good pic of them when you want to. Only 2 of mine right now are displaying this and I only got a decent pic of the larges one, around 5".

Ignore the green marks on the body - its algae on the glass and I'm no lazy to photoshop it out right now.




And here it is cropped:

To me that´s clear - he´s looking for a mate - badly

Very nice guy with loooots of tubercles... compared to mine, mine isn´t realy in the mood yet...