I just resigned to the fact that Clown loaches cannot be bred in captivity and have never seen any accounts of them being bred (successfully)...... BUT... they are so cheerful, friendly and nice to have fish... that in my 43 years of keeping fish... they have always just been part of my community setups......
In my mind.... I imagined that... if they could be bred.... they would probably be tunnel breeders... very much like BN's and the likes......
BUT!!... tonight... I saw (first off in 43 years) ... 3 of them chasing around the tank like in tigerbarb spawning activity..... like egg scatterers..... even intervention would not deter them from their activities.... like being in a trance.... they just continued doing what they were doing..... Chasing... pausing 2 together in a corner shaking alongside vigorously.... then chasing would continue....
Could they actually be egg scatterers??.... anyone else observed this behavior before??...
In my mind.... I imagined that... if they could be bred.... they would probably be tunnel breeders... very much like BN's and the likes......
BUT!!... tonight... I saw (first off in 43 years) ... 3 of them chasing around the tank like in tigerbarb spawning activity..... like egg scatterers..... even intervention would not deter them from their activities.... like being in a trance.... they just continued doing what they were doing..... Chasing... pausing 2 together in a corner shaking alongside vigorously.... then chasing would continue....
Could they actually be egg scatterers??.... anyone else observed this behavior before??...