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Thank you for your advise. The loaches are a lot better and are eating even had a little fight over the food. I am happy about that. The biggest one is still very shy though. They do swim around more now as well while i sit near by and watch them. As far as water quality goes, no problems there. They seem to be OK with water changes, they just stay in one corner till i am finished.I C Mud wrote:Our loaches are kept at around 28 degrees. They are super comfortable and if they see me coming they are usually waiting for food. We have a range of sizes from 1.5 inches to over 10 inches. 30 in all. We rarely turn the tank lights on, but they receive natural light during the day. When we inherited our loaches we did not feed them the first day and they had not been fed for 2 days before the move. It really seemed to help with the stress level. Be it right or wrong we also added 1 tbsp. of salt for 40 litres when we did our initial setup. Did you bring the original filter from where they were originally established? Do you have any pics of your tank. We feed our loaches a high quality sinking pellet and algae wafers and treat them with shrimp. They may need a little more time to become secure. If your water quality is good I would suggest backing off on the water changes 1 every 7 days for the first couple of weeks. I find our loaches get skittish and hide when we do water changes more often than this. Hope this helps. Not an expert, but this works for me.
Thank you Nancy. The CL. Are eating now and seem more active. As an ex Marine aquarist i never thought i could get attached to these Clown Loaches but i am. When they do there dance they remind me of Dolphins, just beautiful.NancyD wrote:It can take a few weeks for them to adjust to their new home. Skip the floating food, although they may learn to eat off the surface in time. Try feeding just after the tank lights are out for the night but with room lights on like loachloach said. Clowns are naturally crepuscular, dawn & dusk active. After they are eating well you can slowly move back feeding time with lights on. Mine loved romaine but to get them to try zucchini I poked pellets or wafer bits into small slits. Good luck!
https://vimeo.com/69602642Ellenmac wrote:Thank you Nancy. The CL. Are eating now and seem more active. As an ex Marine aquarist i never thought i could get attached to these Clown Loaches but i am. When they do there dance they remind me of Dolphins, just beautiful.NancyD wrote:It can take a few weeks for them to adjust to their new home. Skip the floating food, although they may learn to eat off the surface in time. Try feeding just after the tank lights are out for the night but with room lights on like loachloach said. Clowns are naturally crepuscular, dawn & dusk active. After they are eating well you can slowly move back feeding time with lights on. Mine loved romaine but to get them to try zucchini I poked pellets or wafer bits into small slits. Good luck!
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