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Purchasing Loach Question

Post by Glostik » Sun Feb 05, 2006 4:41 pm

At my local LFS they had some 8 inch monsters for sale.

They were traded in by someone 3 days ago, Im wondering how long I should wait to purchase them. I normally havent found this big a loach for sale, so i wanted to know if anything i needed to look for.

They were breathing kind of heavy and were grayed out a bit, i felt bad the tank didnt have enough hiding spaces for how big they were.

The price was just right, only $40 US each.
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Post by Mark in Vancouver » Sun Feb 05, 2006 8:29 pm

The only advice that comes to mind is you should have a very large, very mature tank for them to end up in. 120 gallons minimum, IMO. I assume you're talking about clown loaches?
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Post by jerry_tyler » Mon Feb 06, 2006 12:27 am

I was wondering, if the large clowns were in dallas? I bought 2- 7to 8 inch ones today along with 3 - 5 inch ones. today at the same place. I thought they were very reasonable at 39.00 a piece. I have been looking for a while. They are going in my 540 gallon tank. They act like they really like it. Sorry if these were the ones. But I am a happy man. :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Post by Glostik » Mon Feb 06, 2006 1:59 am

Which LFS did you buy them at?
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Post by jerry_tyler » Mon Feb 06, 2006 12:30 pm

North Dallas Aquarium. Are you from Dallas?
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Post by jerry_tyler » Mon Feb 06, 2006 4:08 pm

Is this the store that had them? If not then if you buy what you want, then please email me so I can buy the rest.
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Post by Glostik » Mon Feb 06, 2006 10:35 pm

Yea you bought em all.

You were on the phone with Chris at Fish Gallery Today while I was there.
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Post by jerry_tyler » Mon Feb 06, 2006 10:51 pm

Sorry, But I have never in personally seen any clowns the size of the two large ones in person. Every time I have seen any the size of the others they are not forsale. They are being displayed. If you see anymore and don"t want them please let me know. They do need a big tank. It wouldn't be fare to them to keep them in a small tank. Chris is going to have some 5+ inch clowns friday. Thats what he told me. Good luck. Hope you find what you want
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Post by Glostik » Tue Feb 07, 2006 12:11 am

Ive seen other ones for sale bigger than those. Exotic Aquatics in Plano had 3 bigger than those a few weeks ago.

I have a 150G Loach tank that im looking to add more clown loaches to.
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Post by jerry_tyler » Tue Feb 07, 2006 12:21 am

My email is jernlee@prodigy.net let me know if you don't want them. What ever price I would like to look at them. thanks jerry
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