My clown loach is dead

[rider 4]

I am a beginer at cichlid
Had went to LFS got me a 2 Yellow labs and 2 ventus and a clown loach and it was only a week when my the clown loach had white spots on him. Then he died did the cichlid kill him are was he sick.

[fire mouth man]

He couyld have had ick.It is also possible it was killed. How big was the ichlids and loach?

[rider 4]

Acutally I had a johani (2.5in) a cobalt blue zebra (1.5in) a red zerba (1in) one i don't know what it is it is (1.5) I had them for a month before i got oh and two common pleco one is (2.5in) other one is (3.5) the clown loach was (3in) in A 75 gallon tank.

[fire mouth man]

It was probobly ick.

[parhaam]

hi.

no problem about keeping C.L. with many of cichlides unless the ones that are enough big to swallow them. i am keeping them( 2"-3")with T .buttikofferi(4"-5"), L.caereleus(2") , P.zebra(2") , M. auratus(2"-3" )and i didn't watch any noticable problem.

check your water parameters the C.L.s are too sensitive to bad water quality.

and finally the C.L.s ( like many of scaleless fishes and like discuses) are too sensitive to many of drogs .
i could suggest to use half advised doze( even you could don't use drogs in earlier stage ) for them and increase the water's temprature to 32'c for 3-4 days.but you should notice that increasing water's temprature will decrease the dissolved oxygen of water and will incraese the metabolism of your fishes . thus you should do good ( read enough) aeration and feed them with enough amounts of quality food and don't over feed.

good luck.

[aharris]

If he had white spots, I'd say he had ick. Clowns are sensitive to it and get it pretty easy. Was your water temp and quality unstable as these things can cause an outbreak.