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Whats the biggest clown loach you have?

Post by papaloach » Sat Dec 04, 2010 6:17 pm

Mines around 6.5". And just wondering how big other clown loach owners are? :D

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Post by Eyrie » Sun Dec 05, 2010 6:19 am

My alpha is between 8.5-9", but there are people on here with larger fish than that.
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Post by starsplitter7 » Sun Dec 05, 2010 8:40 pm

Mine are young and small at 5-6 inches.

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Post by wasserscheu » Mon Dec 06, 2010 4:04 am

Excellent idea trying to get updates from owners with large clowns 8)

Yes, post pictures of your giant baby, please.

My largest is around 6" (TL) in a group of 6.

I visited a friend, who has very recently bought a group of mature clowns. Her clowns were put in her tank a day before I took the following pictures for her, so that's why they are still in faint color. Her largest one, surely measures over 9" TL.

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Post by stevenallenbarnard » Mon Dec 06, 2010 11:09 pm

My biggest is probably only about 7.5" It is the Alpha in a group of 16. the next largest is only 4.5" though.

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Post by Gary Mck » Wed Dec 08, 2010 11:42 am

wasserscheu wrote:I visited a friend, who has very recently bought a group of mature clowns. Her clowns were put in her tank a day before I took the following pictures for her, so that's why they are still in faint color. Her largest one, surely measures over 9" TL.
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Post by Loaches4Life » Wed Dec 08, 2010 9:19 pm

I had 2 big guys at 11.5"-12.5" The the biggest now are 5.5-6" and smaller

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Re: Whats the biggest clown loach you have?

Post by sonnys503 » Wed Dec 22, 2010 11:18 pm

my biggest are 2 at 4.5 and 1 at 5", but they will be going to a buddy of mine who has a 240 gallon. I'm hoping to add more small 2-3 inchers to grow out. seeing BIG loaches inspires me to grow mine out. I have a school of 24 right now.

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Re: Whats the biggest clown loach you have?

Post by wasserscheu » Thu Dec 23, 2010 6:43 pm

thanks Gary.

here some of mine, trying to measure them. Somehow the camera does make the scale appear bigger and the fish smaller? hmmm, thought they were larger when checking with the scale :lol:

sorry about the algae on the glass, I did not clean the glass for half a year.

there are never enough clown pictures, are there :D

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#4 on the right and one of the former babies on the left which is almost 3 years younger

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Re: Whats the biggest clown loach you have?

Post by redshark1 » Tue Dec 28, 2010 2:02 pm

I started with my 6' x 18" x 18" and have 6 Clown Loaches 15 years old.

My largest two are 6" and I presume female. The other four are 4.5" and I presume male.

The largest two have always been the largest and have always got along.

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6 x Clown Loaches all 30 years of age on 01.01.2024, largest 11.5", 2 large females, 4 smaller males, aquarium 6' x 18" x 18" 400 ltr/90 uk gal/110 US gal. approx.

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Re: Whats the biggest clown loach you have?

Post by papaloach » Mon Jan 17, 2011 3:55 pm

These are a few of my big clown, not very good picture quality though.Image
Clown loach by greetham1987, on Flickr
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Papaloach by greetham1987, on Flickr
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papa by greetham1987, on Flickr

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