Clown Loaches.... Aggressive?

[RadaR]

Whatever happened to that old saying, "The customer is always right?"

Not applicable at all in an LFS I'm afraid.
If that were the case then I would be selling hundreds of fish to unfiltered tanks or Clown Loaches to 2foot tanks.

Also, since working in an LFS, I'll find some customers will misunderstand what has been said, or assume pieces of info. For that reason I'll not immediately turn against any LFS if a customer speaks badly of them because some of the time, it's the customer who is wrong and want to quickly criticize the LFS.


Giving the LFS the benifit of the doubt shows here somewhat...

i have clown loaches and they dont even realize the zebra danios are there

If they're in the 60L that (according to your profile) your 4 zebra danio's are in, you need to take them back. In fact your stocking list is horrendous, I'll copy and paste it here so someone else can help you decide what you're going to take back:

we have a JUWEL AQUARIUM MONOLUX
60 liter tank

FISH

3 x neon tetras
1 x frogs
4 x zebra danios
2 x sucker loaches
3 x black widows
3 x plattys
4 x conga tetras
3 x serpa tetras
3 x x-ray fish
1 x glass catfish
1 x fighting fish
3 x guppies
plus 1 baby

No position to criticize an LFS.

Que the flaming

 

[Davo86]

Old sayings are almost always wrong anyway

 

[tenohfive]

No offence RadaR, but having got bored of correcting bad advice on here given by LFS' I will always pass on this as a golden rule of fishkeeping:

"Never trust what an LFS says. Always do your own research."

There are some that are knowledgeable on certain subjects and some that are wildly incorrect. So to be on the safe side, I firmly believe in checking everything. Thats not to say that LFS advice should be ignored out of hand - but that it should always be verified.

**editted to add:

I'm glad you advice people to add filters, and not to put clown loaches in 2 foot tanks. As you can see from one of the above, not every LFS does. Hence my belief in doing my own research and almost never taking one persons word for it.

 

[RadaR]

No offence RadaR, but having got bored of correcting bad advice on here given by LFS' I will always pass on this as a golden rule of fishkeeping:

"Never trust what an LFS says. Always do your own research."

There are some that are knowledgeable on certain subjects and some that are wildly incorrect. So to be on the safe side, I firmly believe in checking everything. Thats not to say that LFS advice should be ignored out of hand - but that it should always be verified.

I completely, 100% agree.
I'm just more open minded about any LFS until I can personally see the level of intelligence they have.

 

[tenohfive]

I don't have the time to rate the ability of any given LFS, there are far too many (not to mention huge differences in knowledge between one member of staff and the next.)

So I don't assume they're wrong, I just go about saying whats right when topics like this one come along.

 

[morgan]

Hi, Clown Loaches can grow to 12" ultimately and can live for 40 years in captivity. I have never seen mine be aggressive.

 

[slvr98camaro]

I have been considering Clown Loaches myself. Just how big do they typically grow to in the Aquarium ? They would be with Tiger Barbs, Severum, and Silver Dollars.

i had two big clown loaches.. one was about 9" but sadly it died a few years ago, and my other is around 6"

the 9" one did when it was about 19 years old, and the one i have now is around 21 years old.. im estimating its age around 24 years old since they are a few years when you buy them