Can A Clown Loach Be With Small Fish

[roz568]

hi i have a 3ft tank that has all my baby guppys and mollys in it and was looking to get a clown loach and put it in with them but im alittle concerned if it will eat my babies.i did have a golden sucking loach in with babies but it turned nasty and started eating them even tho id had him in same tank for the last yr with no probs.so will i have same prob with a clown loach,any help will be great.many thanks for reading this

 

[emma12321]

clown loach get too big for your tank and need to be in groups they have the potential to grow to 16" check out www.loaches.com I have neons in with my 9 inch clown loach and none of my loaches bother them.

Emma

 

[onebto]

Completely agree with Emma.

Please Please Please do not buy a Clown Loach your tank is not big enough for one and they need to be in a minimum group of 5 Ideally.

But I am confused your other post dated the 10/04/2010 says you have got 2 now?

My opinion on your question in that post:

It is a good chance that your 2 Clown Loach are sorting out Dominance and not breeding (there are no decent documented cases of clown loach being bread in captivity without using steroids to my knowledge) Its something they can do quite often they are very social animals thats why they need to be in groups.

So why ask the question?

Regards onebto

 

[roz568]

Completely agree with Emma.

Please Please Please do not buy a Clown Loach your tank is not big enough for one and they need to be in a minimum group of 5 Ideally.

But I am confused your other post dated the 10/04/2010 says you have got 2 now?

My opinion on your question in that post:

It is a good chance that your 2 Clown Loach are sorting out Dominance and not breeding (there are no decent documented cases of clown loach being bread in captivity without using steroids to my knowledge) Its something they can do quite often they are very social animals thats why they need to be in groups.

So why ask the question?

Regards onebto

 

[roz568]

Completely agree with Emma.

Please Please Please do not buy a Clown Loach your tank is not big enough for one and they need to be in a minimum group of 5 Ideally.

But I am confused your other post dated the 10/04/2010 says you have got 2 now?

My opinion on your question in that post:

It is a good chance that your 2 Clown Loach are sorting out Dominance and not breeding (there are no decent documented cases of clown loach being bread in captivity without using steroids to my knowledge) Its something they can do quite often they are very social animals thats why they need to be in groups.

So why ask the question?i have a 6ft tank which i have 2 clown loaches in but just wondered if getting 1 to put in with my baby fish would be ok.also the clown loaches i have were displayed as normal clown loaches not xxl ones

Regards onebto

 

[onebto]

Ah I see from your posts it appeared that you only had a 3ft tank silly me but you have a 6ft tank as well then you are in business

The best thing would be to get your 2 Clown loach some friends and keep them in the 6ft.

Keeping a single Clown Loach permanently in the 3ft on its own would not be ideal as they need there own kind, even if he or she is a small juvenile Clowns are very docile to my limited knowledge and have never experienced any hostility to any of my other fish mainly tetra's, Platy's, Cory's, Kuhli Loach and Rainbow fish.

So to answer your original question about Clowns being in with Guppy's and Platy's then that's fine as far as temperament goes, you would just need to make sure there requirements match i.e. water temperature, PH and environment by this I mean things like Clowns enjoy a good flow of water in there tank which imitates the rivers they come from originally but I think and do not quote me as I do not know much about Guppies but I think they prefer a more subdued water flow in there tanks.

Of course you can go on and on there is nothing like research and study of a species.

Its true they do grow large and bulky over time but they can live for a long long time. What I have read and experienced to a limited amount (been keeping Clowns for about 18 months) is that from the small 1 to 2 inch size they grow quite a lot for a couple of years then there growth slows down.

Here is a link to a good source of info on Clown Loach: http/www.loaches.c...ia-macracanthus

I hope this helps you and apologies for the confusion, there are some far more experienced Clown Loach keepers on this forum that maybe able to support or correct my comments I hope they catch this thread

Regards onebto.