CLown Loaches or just killers....
Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 8:16 am
Hi, first posting here but long time loach lovers, we have 20+ experience of keeping tropical fish around 10 with loaches of various types.
Here is our dilema we love our CLs they are housein a Trigon 360 with a split galleon that they call home ( it takes up most of the tank). We have 17 very healthy, de wormed CLs from 3" to 8"+, they ae very tame well fed and do what loaches do most of the time.
We introduces 10 Yellow fin loaches around a month ago, over night they were destroyed and eaten by the loaches. We looked around and found after digging round the net that the colouring of the yellow fins could have been the problem.
2 days ago we introduced 13 Skunk loaches (we had these before and no problems) last night they were ALL turned to sushi and now 17 loaches have very fat tummys.
In the tank we have also zebra dannions, rummy noses, albino convicts , plecs amongs other small fish. None of these are effected or touched by our little clowns.
A couple of years ago we had to put a Frontosa from our ciclid tank into the loach tanks as he was being picked on badly (breeding season) when he was introduced withing 30 mins it was like a feeding frenzy in a parhana tank, he was cut to ribbons and killed.
Now they are using slice and dice on any other loach introduced to the tank, we have never heared of CL's being this vicious or territorial.
Anyone else hve this experience with them as it is not that easy to find info on the net re this sort of behaviour.
We have FX5 for filtration out water condition is good.
We moved house 4 months ago and until moving in a friend was looking after our fish (in their own tank in the old house) during that time we did lose several fish, and have re stocked since. Don't know if this has anything to do with their behaviour.
Here is a quick look at our tank....http://youtu.be/LoCvn3BVYwE
Here is our dilema we love our CLs they are housein a Trigon 360 with a split galleon that they call home ( it takes up most of the tank). We have 17 very healthy, de wormed CLs from 3" to 8"+, they ae very tame well fed and do what loaches do most of the time.
We introduces 10 Yellow fin loaches around a month ago, over night they were destroyed and eaten by the loaches. We looked around and found after digging round the net that the colouring of the yellow fins could have been the problem.
2 days ago we introduced 13 Skunk loaches (we had these before and no problems) last night they were ALL turned to sushi and now 17 loaches have very fat tummys.
In the tank we have also zebra dannions, rummy noses, albino convicts , plecs amongs other small fish. None of these are effected or touched by our little clowns.
A couple of years ago we had to put a Frontosa from our ciclid tank into the loach tanks as he was being picked on badly (breeding season) when he was introduced withing 30 mins it was like a feeding frenzy in a parhana tank, he was cut to ribbons and killed.
Now they are using slice and dice on any other loach introduced to the tank, we have never heared of CL's being this vicious or territorial.
Anyone else hve this experience with them as it is not that easy to find info on the net re this sort of behaviour.
We have FX5 for filtration out water condition is good.
We moved house 4 months ago and until moving in a friend was looking after our fish (in their own tank in the old house) during that time we did lose several fish, and have re stocked since. Don't know if this has anything to do with their behaviour.
Here is a quick look at our tank....http://youtu.be/LoCvn3BVYwE