Clown Loaches....personal Opions Please :)

I have a 4 foot, 75 US gallon tank with a sand substrate.

I had my clowns (6 at the time) in a 72G tank, provided you are going to upgrade in the next few years,
I can see no reason for you not to have any clowns in that tank.

I now have 10 clowns in a 100G.
 
in all fairness - the shop will have made a "nasty" assumption... That they would die before they became a problem :(

They are very slow growing - we have 10 - the largest of them it about 5" we've had him for about 5 years....
so at the moment we have nothing to worry about. :)


it's unfortunately a common problem

last time i was in the lfs there was a woman going round with a shop assistant looking at what fish were ok for her community tank, now she seemed to have a taste for something different, firstly was eyeing up all teh brackish water fish, puffers etc and then parrot fish and other fairly large cichlids, he steered her away from all these on the basis they got too big for her tank (or were obviously brackish) but said clowns were fine. i though yeah, absolutely fine for maybe 2/3 years (they were already 3/4")

poor little loaches
 
I have a 4 foot, 75 US gallon tank with a sand substrate.

I had my clowns (6 at the time) in a 72G tank, provided you are going to upgrade in the next few years,
I can see no reason for you not to have any clowns in that tank.

I now have 10 clowns in a 100G.

yeah, but im not sure im gonna upgrade. Thats the problem.
 
clown are the greediest fish i have ever kept. they especially love frozen bloodworm. in the home aquaria they hardly ever get enough to eat. people just get them and carry on with their feeding routines they used before they got them. to get them to near their potential they need loads of food, very good filtration and lots of water changes to deal with the nitrates
 
If you can find them where you are, Yo-yo Loaches (Botia almorhae) are great, they stay below 6 inches, I would say 4 inches is average. They are practically mini Clown Loaches. They should be kept in groups of 3+, and just like Clown Loaches, the more the merrier! :good: A shoal of about 6 would look great though. http://www.loaches.com/species-index/botia-almorhae is a really helpful site. Good luck.

Nosoop4u
 
If you can find them where you are, Yo-yo Loaches (Botia almorhae) are great, they stay below 6 inches
no they don't.
myself and another member here have had them 8+ inches
 
I have 2, 1 arounf 2 years old and one around 1 year. the bigest is about 3 and half inches long
 

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