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Thanks for the response. The betta actually spent nearly all his time at the bottom and would eat off the substrate as well, until the loaches worked up the courage to eat with him. Now the bettas in my shrimp tank (he lets cherries crawl on him and clean his fins for some reason) getting genocidal ...

Any one keep zebra loaches with pearl gouramies? I have a planted 36 gal bow front with 8 Zebra Loaches and 7 Harlequin Rasboras and would like to move my male Pearl gourami too. I had a betta with them at first who enjoyed their company until the alpha loach nip his fin at meal time.