Active clown loach, who hasn't eaten in a few days

[water patters]

Hey everyone,

I'm wondering if any of you have had the same issues...

Our Alpha clown loach who's about 6 years old has decided to stop eating the past few days. He's also been out and about doing the loach dance during the day, for the past few days as well. That's unusual for him, he's usually only active during the afternoon and evening. It also looks like his breathing might be a bit more rapid than usual.

We've done water tests with the quick test strips, and everything comes back in good ranges.

Everyone else in the tank is eating and acting normal. I think I'll try doing a small water change either tonight or tomorrow to see if this improves anything.

If anyone has any ideas, please let me know Smile

Thanks!

Kelly

[glenna]

did you change anything?....or add a new loach, maybe rearrange?

[water patters]

Hi Glenna,

Well, we did both actually. We added 3 small tiger barbs about 12 days ago, and over the weekend we rearranged their tank.

Thinking that maybe the rearranging of their tank was stressing him out, I put his house back to it's original location last night.

Today he's still not eating, and constantly doing the "loach dance". We checked the water earlier this afternoon, and the nitrates have gone down a little bit, they're still a little high, and the alkalinity was a little bit higher than usual.

We're about to do another water change tonight, and add another dose of the Amquel.

thanks,

Kelly