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would clown loaches enjoy the snack/hunt of a ghost shrimp? i'm all out of good snails, all i have currently are the annoying trumpet ones. and the others that i have (apple) won't breed.

Larger Clowns (9"+) will definitely eat live shrimp, but in my experience, the smaller ones tend to ignore them. You could always try them on chopped up fresh prawns (shrimps) like the ones that you buy from the supermarket to use in a prawn cocktail. Mine go crazy for them, and the bigger fish take them whole.

Emma

OMG... alright... they're 2-4" long... still too small? grrrrrr... i wanted to watch 'em hunt..

what about kuhlis?

You could always try it and see what happens. I'm just saying that in my experience, young Clowns don't tend to go for them, but others here may have had different experiences....

Emma

i'll try it this weekend and see how things go... the poor little guys want snails i think... i wonder if they get "cravings."

I used to go to the supermarket, get a bunch of shrimp, and toss it in the blender for a couple seconds. Then i would fill an ice tray with the chopped shrimp and add some garlic extract and selcon. Toss it in the freezer and your good to go whenever. Just don't let your significant other catch you tossing seafood in the blender. That gets ugly.

poeticpyro wrote: the others that i have (apple) won't breed.

You may have all males (or all females; however males seem to be more common)...

If you want to waste a heap of time, try to watch your snails when they are "hanging out" of their shell - inside the shell, between the head and the "roof" of the shell, the males have a penile sheath...

Another easy way to spot the penile sheath, is if you've got males, sometimes you might catch them on the glass using their head to scratch/massage ( ) their bits

its already been a month and my ghost shrimp are still in the tank... my biggest clown is around 5". Never showed interest in the shrimp...

Size and Species are mainly a big Factor. Clowns are not of the "aggressive" way of feeding when juvenile.

would khulis or yo-yos eat them then?? the yo-yos are very aggressive little buggers...

I've got 3 yo-yos, 7 clowns, and 5 ghost shrimp int he same tank...

The shrimp never get bothered.

Once in a while a shrimp will find a piece of food first, but they let go pretty fast when a loach dive-bombs them.

Loaches act like the shrimp don't even exist.