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Posted by Frank_Cora on November 3, 2007, 5:17 am
Please log in for more thread options One of my weather loaches seems to have some kind of sore on his
face.
He's had it for a few weeks now & appeared as if something had taken a
chunk out of the side of his face (possibly maybe one of my sucking
loaches)
I've tried a few things in the tank Medizin P & Myxazin. Now he's in
a separate tank and i'm trying Octozin. But it just doesn't seem to
be healing
It doesn't appear to be a fungus.
I would be grateful for any suggestions as to what to do with him
thanks
Frank
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Posted by Tynk on November 3, 2007, 9:54 am
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> One of my weather loaches seems to have some kind of sore on his
> face.
>
> He's had it for a few weeks now & appeared as if something had taken a
> chunk out of the side of his face (possibly maybe one of my sucking
> loaches)
>
> I've tried a few things in the tank Medizin P & Myxazin. Now he's in
> a separate tank and i'm trying Octozin. But it just doesn't seem to
> be healing
>
> It doesn't appear to be a fungus.
>
> I would be grateful for any suggestions as to what to do with him
>
> thanks
> Frank
Hello Frank.
Sorry to hear about your Loach.
Are you able to take a photo of him and the lesion?
What needs to happen is to figure out if this is from being ill, or
another fish rasping on him so much that it created a hole.
I've seen Chinese Alagea eaters do this. I had one when I was a kid
(it was my chinese algae eater) that actually ate a hole through a
Cory's armoured scales!
A weather loach's body would be so easy, however I don't see the loach
letting that happen.
They're too wriggly and bendy and something would have a hard time
holding on for sure.
Just list the sucker type fish that you do have anyway, just to be on
the safe side.
I don't reccognize those medication names (I'm in the USA and some
countries have different brand names).
What's the main ingredients in them?
Are there any other tank mates that were with it?
If so....look at them very carefully. Do they show symptoms of
anything....even if it's not a lesion.
Any with with rot, sunken belly, extended belly, black patches, bent
spine that all of a sudden developed, things like that nature.
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Posted by atomweaver on November 6, 2007, 9:48 am
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> One of my weather loaches seems to have some kind of sore on his
> face.
>
> He's had it for a few weeks now & appeared as if something had taken a
> chunk out of the side of his face (possibly maybe one of my sucking
> loaches)
>
> I've tried a few things in the tank Medizin P & Myxazin. Now he's in
> a separate tank and i'm trying Octozin. But it just doesn't seem to
> be healing
>
Could be a wound. I had that happen recently to a dwarf gourami from a
school of them in a tank with 5 yo-yo loaches. If the wound is very
deep, or located near or on a gill flap or eye, it might not make it.
Most other wounds to the main body mass will heal fine, but not prettily
(It might have a battle scar for life). The gourami's wound was over its
eye, and its pretty deep, but now that he's out of the other tank, he is
not stressed and is eating well. I moved it to a 10 gallon platy fry
tank to re-coup. The scar tissue in the wound went from slightly pinkish
and fuzzy to white and shiny, and its appetite returned as this
progressed. The first five days in the fry tank, it harldy ate at all.
I don't treat the water (tanks got fry in it), but I keep the NH3/NO2/NO3
at 0/0/<10 ppm with large-ish water changes, since its a small tank.
> It doesn't appear to be a fungus.
>
> I would be grateful for any suggestions as to what to do with him
>
I'd stop the meds. If you've run a full med course, you've prevented any
fungus or infection, and with very-good water parameters, it'll either
recover from the wound, or succumb to it. Continuing the meds may just
stress it out more. Give it plenty of hiding places, and keep giving
plenty of opportunities to feed. Spoiling it with a favorite food
(frozen bloodworms?) might get its interest in eating back up, which can
help it recover.
Regards,
DaveZ
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> face.
>
> He's had it for a few weeks now & appeared as if something had taken a
> chunk out of the side of his face (possibly maybe one of my sucking
> loaches)
>
> I've tried a few things in the tank Medizin P & Myxazin. Now he's in
> a separate tank and i'm trying Octozin. But it just doesn't seem to
> be healing
>
> It doesn't appear to be a fungus.
>
> I would be grateful for any suggestions as to what to do with him
>
> thanks
> Frank