Arg.. I just want some healthy Clown loaches.

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majorhavok

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I am having rotten luck...

I am trying to get started with some Clown Loaches.

Problems:

First it was extremely hard for me to find CL's locally here in Socal. I had to call around to a ton of places for a while to find them.

Second, I screwed up and just acclimated for temp and ph before putting them in my newest tank.

Ultimately they developed a case of Ich that I had no idea I had until they started showing white spots a few days later. I tried treating with temp and salt, but other than the normal Ich cycle, I saw no visible changes over the last month. I set up an empty tank for the 5 of them including one looking very skinny.

I decided to use a high precision heating system that has a inlet and outlet hose in the quarantine tank and pumps the water back to a box with the heater and pump in it. I have been treating with Kordon Ich-Attack for a couple of days and the sickest one seemed to be getting better and must have tried to check out the 1/2 inch ID hoses and got sucked in the intake. Argh..I felt the suction and am still amazed it was strong enough to pull him in, or even that he fit! I disassembled the system as soon as i noticed which couldn't have been more than 30 minutes after he got sucked in and found him in the heating chamber. He looked dead, but amazingly his gills were moving so I put him back in the tank and he has survived a few hours but doesn't look good. I doubt he will last long, but if anything I'm glad it was him and not one of the healthier ones.

I'm learning a lot of lessons(getting frustrated), but am I just having a bad string of luck with these guys or is anyone else having CL problems? I got the impression that there were major health problems (Ich or ?) and that was why there was unusually low supply available. Anyone else having current problems? Please don't tell me about the fish you have had for years, just recent additions as I think thats more relevant.

Thanks,

-Mike
 
Well, little one was dead this morning so of course I feel terrible for finishing him off, but I think he was dying anyway. The other four are as active and playful as I've ever seen. Hopefully they stay healthy..
 
Ah the headachs of fishkeeping... there is problems in all hobbies.
Cars break down, fish die. Part of life. If everything was easy wouldnt be as satisfactory doing it. Just keep plugging away hopefully they get healthier for you !
 
Not in socal but all the stores around me have plenty of heathy clown from juvie to massive. I added 2 about 5 months ago no problems.

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I'm suprised you had a hard time finding them . It seems like errbody got them around here . 1st thing to know about cl's is they are one of the easisest to catch ich , especially when they're "new" . keep temps up for them until they're stable . good luck
 
I had bad luck with them too until I recently got 8 from a friend who kept them for over a year. Not I have them for 6 months, still doing good, temp at 84 and I just started running uv filter... Maybe its helping. I will not add any new ones tho.

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Never had problems keeping CLs, one of the easiest fish to keep.
 
Well I can say the Kordon Ich Attack didn't exactly blow my skirt up.

Made my tank look like absolute crap and did nothing for Ich.

Plan B:

Go with salt and high temp and return the water to cleanliness. Gosh that stuff was bad. Opaque stinky brown water.. Just what a fish wants.
 
I've had troubles with keeping CL alive as well. The problem I have is the my juruense catfish keeps eating them! I need to find some larger specimens of 3-4 inches to buy. The ones my LFS has are always about 1.5 inches which is just way too small.
 
I had similar problems when I first got my CL's. I was getting them from Petsmart and every last one of them had bad cases of ich. they had the lights off on the CL tank saying it was broken so was impossible to tell how sick they were till I got them home. I had close to a 50% mortality rate over the first night ended up buying 13 over the course of a week just so I could have 6 of them survive after it was all said and done. Good luck with your struggles.
 
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