Clown Loach Mystery sickness, please help!

[cgoldsmith_99]

The situation: have 8 clown loaches in a 125 gallon. Frontosa in the tank died of dropsy/bloat (my fault). Then noticed two of the loaches had very small white spots. Put all of them in my 20 gal hospital tank and treated for parasites for 2 days. Spots did not get better, did a 50% water change and treated for ick for the past 2 days (even though the white spots do not look like ick to me). More white spots developing, any ideas, if I cannot properly diagnose the problem I am going to lose them all. The spots look almost in the skin as opposed to on it, which I normally would think was ick.

All thoughts appreciated.

Thanks,

Chris

 

[ewurm]

Ich. Raise temp to 86 deg f, and add 2 tsp of aquarium salt per gallon. Should fix the problem within a week.

 

[ewurm]

Also, increased aeration in the tank would be advisable.

 

[Bderick67]

you will also need to treat the 125 for ich, not just the clowns in the hospital.