How many clown loaches?

[botiaboy]

How many full grown clown loaches can be kept in a 110 gallon tank with a common pleco and geophagus(if any)?

[Martin Thoene]

Really, truly full-grown Clowns would need a bigger tank.

Martin.

[botiaboy]

Uh oh that a problem.I get the 55 hoping i'll be done,now i find out i'll need an even BIGGER TANK?Bigger than a 110?Please tell me you are joking.

[adampetherick]

if you look at people keeping big clowns ie Emma, her's is an 8' tank, can't think who else

[botiaboy]

Great.If there was a hitting your head on the keyboard smiley here,id use it but instead i'll have to use this. *hits head on keyboard several times*

[adampetherick]

The tank I'm sorting to keep clowns is going to be 3000l (800g)

[botiaboy]

Will I EVER get a big enough tank?*hits head on keyboard again* You said TRULY full sized.I mean 12 inch,refraining from growing much more.How about those?

[Martin Thoene]

Here's how it should be done........

Photo: Emma Turner

Now get this in scale right?.....the two big fish near the centre are 10.5" and near 12"......and you can't see the ends of the BIG tank.

Before they went into the tank....check the ruler

Photo: Emma Turner

I've seen these fish in the flesh. No trick shots, no photoshop....they're BIG

Martin.

[shari2]

mamaschild has some LARGE clowns too. . .
http://forums.loaches.com/viewtopic.php ... highlight=

And Albert the tank buster wasn't in that pic. . .
It's a 125g tank.

[libingboy]

one way to source (old) large tanks is to join those predatory fish forums... people in these forums get large tanks coz they keep large catfish, arowanas, cichlids that normally hit 1-2' in a year or two...

a lot of times people have to continually upgrade their tanks, so you might be able to find large tanks in this manner?

i wouldn't recommend people from this forum from searching for "loaches" in their threads though... you might see some loaches in african cichlid territory...

i keep my loaches in a 125... most of the time you'll see a big tank with 10 tiger barbs... very empty feeling... even if clowns can get to 12", im not sweating it, there's still plenty of time for me to upgrade, as the largest is only a bit more than 5", and unless you bought the clowns from another fishkeeper, chances are your clowns are gonna be smaller than mine, so you have more time to plan for an upgrade...

[botiaboy]

So no clowns for a 110,but a bunch for a 125?

[libingboy]

i think what people are saying is that 110 is not an ideal size to keep clowns till they're 12"... 125 may also be insufficient for clowns that size... what i was trying to say was that even though that may be the case, you still would have a few years to plan that larger tank... just my personal opinion... but i might be biased, because it is relatively easy to source larger tanks where i come from, since a lot of people keep large predatory fish...

[Martin Thoene]

Yes libingboy, you're quite right. a 110 is OK for a group of immature Clowns, but not for fully grown ones which was the original question.

Martin.

[botiaboy]

Dang,I'm starting to wonder why people call large fish tankbusters and not walletbusters...Better start saving!

[Hell Fire]

Well my Loaches (whats left after a tragic end to the 2 new additions)
are very small only about 2half inch and i keep 3 of them in a 45gal tank with a few other little fish. Even ill be getting a bigger tank sometime soon!! They need a LOT of room!! My dad has a 30gal and has just got 2 small loach but he now upgrading in a few months to a massive 100gal or larger.