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Title: Sickly Clown Loach


Leema - April 1, 2006 11:34 PM (GMT)
My smallest clown loach looks very unwell. She's lying on her side a lot more than normal clowns do. Not breathing heavily but kind of shallow. Gills are pink, but her gills have always been kinda red. She's the smallest of my 3, and always has been. She hasn't grown since I've had her, but the other two have. Her colour looks good. Ammonia is 0. I don't have any other test kits except pH.

I think she might be too far gone, but any suggestions? :sook:

dtroup2 - April 1, 2006 11:38 PM (GMT)
Water change? Maybe isolate her in a hospital tank in case ahe has somthing contagous? Has she been eating?

Leema - April 1, 2006 11:55 PM (GMT)
Yeah, today is water change day. I don't have a seperate tank to put her in because I've got bristlenose fry in there.

She's always eating. Not sure over the past few days - she seems to have been more lethargic, but .... clowns are weird... I didn't think anything of it.

dtroup2 - April 17, 2006 05:11 PM (GMT)
How is she doing?

Leema - April 18, 2006 02:50 PM (GMT)
Nah, she carked it. :(

I'm thinking that, considering she was smaller than the other two, never grew in the time I had her (while the others did) and had different behaviour to the other two... There was something wrong with her. :(
She was still my favourite, though.

dtroup2 - April 18, 2006 03:42 PM (GMT)
Bummer :rip:




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