Clown Loach

[pinkdolphin_113]

Is this fish a catfish? Or a loach?
How big does it get? Would it do good in a pond?
What fish will be compatible with it?

 

[Fella]

Is this fish a catfish? Or a loach?
How big does it get? Would it do good in a pond?
What fish will be compatible with it?

It is as the name suggests, a loach.

 

[pinkdolphin_113]

Ok, how big will it grow do you know?

 

[@ombomb]

http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=34953

 

[§tudz]

Keep it mind Clown Loach can live for 30+yrs and grow 14"+
But they are a great fish I had 3, one died just after buying it, and I lost one due to a stupid mistake on my behalf with a bleach dip.... .....

and I'm down to 1, but looking at getting him two like sized friends later this month.

A funny active fish, they do give you a few scares when you first get them, such as lying on there sides and not moving, and looking dead, and when you go to fish them out they zoom off. another good trick it them standing on their tails.

Ensure you buy from a good source, as ALL CLs are wild caught and tend to carry Ich, which they are very susectable (spelt wrong) to. and the cure can be lethal if administered wrong.

hope you enjoy your Loaches,

 

[Fella]

Just to pick you up on the wild caught factor, I'm quite sure I've read that they can be bred with hormones in the far east.

Also, in a 1996 edition of PFk (I think it was 96, might have been 98) a man in the south west (I think he owns plymouth discus, I'm unsure) described a story (with no photographic evidence) of him breeding them.

 

[§tudz]

Just to pick you up on the wild caught factor, I'm quite sure I've read that they can be bred with hormones in the far east.

Also, in a 1996 edition of PFk (I think it was 96, might have been 98) a man in the south west (I think he owns plymouth discus, I'm unsure) described a story (with no photographic evidence) of him breeding them.

There have been a few counts of breeding in the aquarium, there was I am told (as I'm only 23 [yesterday ]] that about 15-20 years ago, when my dad kept fish, that there was an article about a man who had a fish house built from a shed, in this shed all his tank filtered and topped up with water different ways, example water would fall as rain on some tanks, or flow like a river, apparently he was breeding alsorts of fish, that were siad to not breed in captivity.
I didn't know about the hormone breeding though, IVF treament for fish hehehe!

anyway, I did read an article a while back on CLs that said they don't be come firtile until they are quick large, and as I stated earlier they live a long time, and in the aquarium many don't live that long, or the owners don't