Monster clowns sore skin

[follen]

I picked up some additional loach to add to my hoard of 15. The big one is 8 inch plus I would say bigger and the smaller about 6inch. Both as you can see hear have sores on there nose and a few split fins.

What is this is this just due to poor water quality in there old tank. Or is it something more sinister.

Recently I had treated my shoal with mefalix to help with some fin rot. Shall I dose with that or maybe just salt ??

 

[follen]

See it's tail as well.

 

[RD.]

Probably poor water quality. Are they in QT now? Personally I would just keep the water uber clean until they heal.

 

[Coryloach]

This is completely normal to happen in the first few days after purchase of large clowns. I am not sure why, but they tend to rub their noses from stress of the movement. It happened to me twice. Once about 6 years ago when I saved a 5 inch loach and once about 2 years ago when I purchased three 5-6 inch loaches. White noses within days The nose thing went away without any intervention on my part both times. The clowns have been fine and healthy since.

However, split fins and fin rot is a water quality issue and something completely different. The cure is lower bioload, higher filtration, more water changes.....

What I am trying to say, don't worry about the white noses, it will go away as fast as it came about if your water quality is up to scratch.

 

[kno4te]

Clean water as the others have mentioned.

 

[follen]

Yeah I thought so apparently the tank they came from was run down to hell. Just done a large water change, unfortunately they are in the main tank but I have de wormed them before introduction.

They already look alot better then they did yesterday and both are super chunky and healthy looking.

 

[Coryloach]

I found some pictures of one of my loaches 6 years ago when I got her.

See the white nose below? This actually happened in my tank within 2 days of getting the loach. Her nose was not like that. They seem to rub it out of stress. And she looked quite emaciated. I got her from a 10 gallon tank!

2013


2019 from a couple of weeks back same loach

 

[celebrist]

that Jag leaves your clowns alone?