Clown Loach Addict

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ringham said:
I have 4 clown loaches, but I don't know what you meen by ich?

could someone please fill me in. Is it a disease?
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Yup it's a desease. I lost a colony of clown loaches due to ich which I got from newly bought clown loaches from the LFS. I stupidly didn't quarantine them first. Always quarantine your newly aquired fish.

here's more info on ich http://cichlid-forum.com/articles/ich.php
 
i love clown loaches, i had a bunch that were eaten by my jardini... right now i have only one at like 5-6" in my ray tank.
 
ringham said:
I have 4 clown loaches, but I don't know what you meen by ich?

could someone please fill me in. Is it a disease?
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Hiya ringham, welcome to MFK.
Ich is one of the most common of aquarium parasitical diseases. It looks like the fish are sprinkled with grains of salt. Everybody seems to encounter it sooner or later but caught early it is easy to cure. You can also do a search in the disease and health forum here.
 
i have a 3 clown loach at 7 - 8 inches biggest nearly 9 inches i have had them 5 years i got them at 3 inches and i feed them on a mixed diet of love frozen dry and oellet and granule, but they are in a smallish tank so prob be bigger if in a bigger tank. wanna breed the little bliters too, but heard it is hard!
 
Clowns are schoolers and tend to be happier and more active when kept in groups of 3+. I have 9 in a 135 along with about six other types, yoyo, modesta kubotia. They have gone from about 1/2" to 2 1/2", largest, in a little over a year.
 
Ever since I bought four clown loaches last july, I haven't been able to stop buying more of them. Finding LFS carrying clown loaches larger than 3" is rare. I was lucky to find a local hobbyist selling four of his that he kept for 3 years. Three of them were 5.5" and one was 4.5".

Here's a few camera phone shots of my collection. I taped a quarter onto the tank to show some perspective of their sizes.



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So I bought 4 x 2.5" clown loaches today. I put the in with my spotted gars inside a 40. I never thought to look for ich... then I read this read and saw someone say it looked like salt sprinkled over the fish... so I'm pretty sure my CL have ich. I took the loaches out and put them in a 10 and cranked the temp up. I'll prob go buy some salt tomorrow. I took the gars out and put them in the 150. They were probably together for 5 hours or so... do I need to treat the gars for ich too or am I safe?
 
Gar are not nearly as susceptible to ich. If you don't see any warning signs I think you are OK.
 
I got 2 right now, trying find some more at around 3-4" so my bichirs wont try to eat them as much.

my brother had 5 in his 150 last yr that was cool as hell, damn katrina took em out.
 
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