Can clown loaches be kept with kuhli loaches?

loachmom · Post by **loachmom** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 2:04 pm

Is there any reason that clowns and kuhlis shouldn't be kept together?

newshound · Post by **newshound** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 5:50 pm

some poster on this site had kuhlis with big modesta's!
I wouldn't say that was ideal.
I am not sure that I'd put 5 inch clowns in a tank with kuhlis.
Clowns will grow

loachmom · Post by **loachmom** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 5:52 pm

Yeah, I was thinking about how a big clown might slurp up a kuhli. My clowns are about 3" now. I have a 55 gal.

Emma Turner · Post by **Emma Turner** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:20 pm

Even very large clown loaches wouldn't kill kuhli loaches, but the aquarium requirements of these 2 species are very different. Kuhli loaches would not cope well with the amount of flow that clown loaches prefer and they would get accidentally knocked about during feeding time when the clowns can be particularly boisterous.

Emma

loachmom · Post by **loachmom** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:50 pm

I didn't think about the water flow. Thanks for bringing that up. I'm glad to know that clowns wouldn't harm a kuhli.

Thanks

newshound · Post by **newshound** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 7:56 pm

as much as I admire and respect Emma I say you never know what a loach will do.
my little striata's rip apart shrimp and have been taking the eyes out of my hatchet fish. (It is really creepy to see a school of hatchets with almost all with one eye missing)
-as always YMWV-
clowns can get so big and khuli's stay small.

loachmom · Post by **loachmom** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 8:30 pm

I'm sorry I have to ask this.....

What is YMWV?

I'm new to forums, so I don't know the language, yet. It took me a long time to figure out that LOL meant "laugh out loud."

grizzlyone · Post by **grizzlyone** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 8:36 pm

Its a disclaimer. In all the car commercials when they give Miles per Gallon figures....

in the states its YMMV=Your Mileage may vary

or YMWV=Your Mileage will vary.

Kevin

loachmom · Post by **loachmom** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 8:39 pm

Thanks so much!!

wasserscheu · Post by **wasserscheu** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 1:00 pm

loachmom wrote:
... that LOL meant "laugh out loud."

... oh boy, I thought LOL stays for LoachesOnLine ...

shazam26 · Post by **shazam26** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 1:10 pm

hahaha yipes! I have kuhli's with clowns, and oddly enough the current is their favorite place to play

They spend all their time around it and follow eachother in patterns through it. Without the current they never really did much. They don't have too much trouble eating either;) They're fiesty for little guys! I prefer dropping food bits into the plants, where only the kuhli's can reach it. That's usually quite successful.

shari2 · Post by **shari2** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 3:21 pm

Just for the fun of it for loachmom (and whoever else...) Here's a list of frequently used acronyms on the internet.

http://www.netlingo.com/emailsh.cfm

some of pretty complicated, other's are so simple it makes ya want to say 'DUH!'

chefkeith · Post by **chefkeith** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 4:06 pm

I try to keep a few good hidey spots in my tanks for the kuhli's. They like staying in thick mats of a seaweed type algae that gathers up in some area's in my tanks. They don't like it if I clean up all the algae mats, so I try to leave them some.

pics of a kuhli in the weeds- (in the lower left hand corner)-

loachmom · Post by **loachmom** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 8:27 pm

Thanks for all your replies and for the pictures.

And thanks, Shari, for the link. No more head-scratching, now!

I'm sure wasserscheu thanks you, too!

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