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It's a good point. Although slow, they'll grow large eventually and even a 125G will just about be minimum enough for a school. But they are worth the effort and commitment in my opinion, funny characters and seem to be great community fish too, compared to more aggessive loaches like yoyos.

I thought I'll update the thread because I got progress. It seems adding the platies after all did have some effect. If you've kept livebearers you know how they bunch up to the glass and top of the tank begging for food everytime you pass by. Well, the clown loaches started doing the same. They see...

In relation to the clown loaches eating plants, I had the same problem when I first got them. They made a mesh out of my nice plants, especially the swords, aponogeton and other soft bright green plants in particular. The poor plants couldn't grow a new leaf without it being half eaten or thorn. The...

What a bunch of copy cats the clowns are. You know how hungry platies are and bunch up the moment you approach the tank. Now the clowns also started coming up to the surface amongst the platies and the moment I open the lid at feeding time, they rush to the surface as well. If the clowns start behav...

Here are a couple of terrible pictures but couldn't get any better in the dark:

No great change. They do come out for a while after I turn the lights off in the evening and they were out during the night when I stayed up a few days, also up until lunch the next day. During the day I can see the two small clown loaches from time to time browsing around but the bigger ones wait u...

I got a couple of flowerpots as I couldn't get PVC pipes(imagine). I used some silicone and sand to cover the outside so they blend with the sand, looks nice enough. They are cured and in the tank since yesterday. Let's see if it makes a difference. I had to move the female platies in the tank as we...

Can you post a few pictures of your setup? What type of cave do you have? :D The clowns definately don't like the bright white type of lights but I thought the moonlight is only for us to see them after lights are off, not for the clowns benefit as they'll probably prefer no light at all. My two sma...

Bump, trying to keep it on top too, it's horrible. Are there any security risks to it I wonder?

Looks like the forum has been hijacked. There are 11 pages of threads opened today/Friday full of S***T.
Hopefully there are forum moderators that can block these accounts and delete the rubbish.

Thanks. I like tetras but I am kind of trying to avoid them in case they are fin nippers. There are a few guppy in there that may not live more than another year, but I won't stand it if anything attacks the corys or stresses them out. I am still looking and I can't decide. I want something that wil...

Loachloach wrote:What type of rasboras do you keep with clown loaches? I would love some boraras brigattae/mosquito rasbora buy they maybe too small for them?

Forget about this. They apparently don't like too much flow.

What type of rasboras do you keep with clown loaches? I would love some boraras brigattae/mosquito rasbora buy they maybe too small for them?

I'll go to the shop this week and get pvc pipes. Wondering if I should silicone sand on the outside or it won't stick, or should I use some gravel instead? I do have 3 more tanks but they aren't empty at the moment. I'll see what I can do in a while, maybe I'll have an empty tank once the cory fry g...

Thanks. I really appreciate your help. I have 5 clown loaches only. And I agree the platies maybe not the best idea as they do move frantically around sometimes. Maybe if I had only females would be better as they stay in a bunch and are quite peaceful in the other tank but are the greediest of fish...