recovering from skinny disease

[Arowana King]

can a clown loach recover from skinny disease(head skunken in)?

I mean can it be fat and plumb again?

 

[Lupin]

That's a very slim chance. I had one tiger loach growing thin for no reason even after I tried to treat it with levamisole hydrochloride but he eventually recovered and fattened up which I find rather strange. Usually, in those cases, the fish is beyond recovery. Give it a chance and fatten up with bloodworms. If it simply is going worse, consider euthanasia.

 

[is300zx]

feed them live black worms. i had one that was basically in the brink of death recover after feeding it nothing but live black worms for a few weeks. you may have to still treat the parasite itself but at least the clown loach will be healthy enough to take the treatment.

 

[ewurm]

You need to feed it until it looks obese. I have a blog you might want to read.

 

[Muske]

Try feeding him more. Not a lot to foul water, but nice and chubby.

 

[glennamy]

Do the parasites that cause skinny disease live in the tank (like ick)? or just in the effected loach? I lost a loach due to skinny and 2 new loaches are now in the same tank. what should I do?

 

[Lupin]

Do the parasites that cause skinny disease live in the tank (like ick)? or just in the effected loach? I lost a loach due to skinny and 2 new loaches are now in the same tank. what should I do?

Treat everyone with levamisole hydrochloride.

 

[Muske]

Lupin,

Where do you find that med.?

 

[Lupin]

Lupin,

Where do you find that med.?

My livestock stores always sell that but I'm not from USA. There still has to be a store somewhere there that should be stocking those meds. Your other alternatives are flubendazole or fenbendazole.