YO-YO LOACH?! MORE LIKE MINI TIGER SHARK!!🦈

[Fishnewb21]

Here’s the video.. little update, since recording this literally 10 minutes ago he’s managed to put the divider up on one side of it and is still desperately trying to escape. The breeding box isn’t very strong anyway and it only takes me a slight tug and the thing comes apart in half he’s strong do you think he’s honestly secure in there for the night?!? Because at the moment i am sat here with the blue light still on on the tank and cannot sleep as I’m terrified I take my eye off it for one second he will escape againnnnn!!!!

 

[Fishnewb21]

For some reason it isn’t working

 

[Fishnewb21]

 

[Fishnewb21]

I’ll take a look at your video, and see what’s up.

Check it on YouTube it’s under yo-yo Loach caught breeding box prison for the night

 

[Fishnewb21]

So I’ve just been woken up to a bang and splashing sound. He broke threw the divider to the top half of the breeder box. I honestly feel like I’m in a remake of deep blue sea or something or some kind of karma!! He needs to go

 

[CaptainBarnicles]

Good grief, he's a little git isn't he?! Have you managed to take him back OK?

 

[PheonixKingZ]

He is obviously very scared. Have you taken him back yet?

 

[Fishnewb21]

Hey guys,
Yeah he was returned this morning. Was sad to see him go but it was a shame to keep him. Hopefully he goes to a much more suited home

 

[Byron]

Hey guys,
Yeah he was returned this morning. Was sad to see him go but it was a shame to keep him. Hopefully he goes to a much more suited home

This was the only suitable decision under the circumstances. You mentioned something earlier in this thread that refers to this, and I will comment here so you know. The are two main factors.

The plan was to get more once I got the bigger tank. But it’s got too bad now and I can’t drag it out any longer I can’t find a bigger tank yet it’s taking longer then I hoped he’s not coping well in the breeder box right now il post a video in a sec for advice

Shoaling fish need to be in a group, and with some species, such as all of the loaches, they develop an hierarchy within the group fairly quickly. For this reason, you absolutely must acquire the entire intended group at the same time, and introduce them to the tank together. The advice from the store was terribly false, but now you know. The behaviour of a shoaling fish that is denied being in a suitably-sized group can vary, but this causes severe stress and aggression (increased) is the usual symptom. Unfortunately this does not cure itself. The fish is genetically programmed to "expect" a group, so it can be within the hierarchy, and when this is denied to the individual fish it has stress and reacts. The situation does not reverse itself, so the point here is that adding more of the species now, once this individual fish has been on its own for even a few days, rarely works. The individual fish might well tear into any other loaches added to the tank. Again, the entire group must be acquired together.

Second issue I'd like to comment on is the thinking that a larger tank will be acquired down the road. This may or may not occur, for whatever reason. Unless you have today a suitably-sized tank for the species to be in the numbers it needs to be, at maturity (i.e., for its entire life), do not acquire the fish. Following this maxim will mean you never get caught in another similar situation. And the poor fish is always the loser when it is forced into what it considers to be a completely foreign and inappropriate situation.

 

[anewbie]

Sooo..
I had a yo-yo problem.. he was a complete a****** to put it bluntly. Biggest regret purchasing him and the shop should NOT of aloud me to get him on his own (learning curve I will research all fish before purchase from here onward) well after countless attempts to catch him.. catching him twice and him escaping the breeding box.. TWICE!! To now I finally caught him again without causing huge stress to the rest of the tank and he’s currently sat in an old sea monkey ocean zoo. Anyone want him before I return him to the shop?? naa seriously.. either way he’s going tomorrow without a doubt and my other little babies can all be peaceful and calm again without being harassed

You did keep in in a 100 gallon aquarium with 7 other yoyo loaches so he would be socially adjustabled ?

 

[raylove]

Very entertaining thread, but I sympathise!
I once bought some plants and when I got them home I found a yo-yo loach hitchhiking amongst them. I knew their reputation so I took it back!
Botia's in general are like this. I have a group of 6 pygmy chain loaches and they behave just like this. When I first got them they worried and attacked any slow moving fish or any with flowing fins. I quickly put them in with larger robust fish and there they have been for 6 years now.
As I write this I can see them glass surfing and wrestling with each other as they dash around like nutters. Their current tank mates are unfazed by their behaviour but before I got them I had thought that they were ideal community fish. I nearly took them back when I first got them, but once I put them in with the bigger boys I'm glad I didn't because in the right environment they are highly entertaining.

 

[Fishnewb21]

Very entertaining thread, but I sympathise!
I once bought some plants and when I got them home I found a yo-yo loach hitchhiking amongst them. I knew their reputation so I took it back!
Botia's in general are like this. I have a group of 6 pygmy chain loaches and they behave just like this. When I first got them they worried and attacked any slow moving fish or any with flowing fins. I quickly put them in with larger robust fish and there they have been for 6 years now.
As I write this I can see them glass surfing and wrestling with each other as they dash around like nutters. Their current tank mates are unfazed by their behaviour but before I got them I had thought that they were ideal community fish. I nearly took them back when I first got them, but once I put them in with the bigger boys I'm glad I didn't because in the right environment they are highly entertaining.

Was gutted I had to let him go. I really did want to get more and put him in a bigger tank with them but I just haven’t managed to find anything bigger quick enough and I just can’t afford the prices where I am for brand new tanks especially the sizes I’ve been looking at! One of those things isn’t it I suppose. Luckily the people in my local good aquarium shop took him today (I wasn’t taking him back to pets at home I dread to think what they would of done with him!) they quickly found him a ready little empty tank for him to go into so at least he’s going to go to someone with hopefully either already a group of them for him to join or maybe see how he goes with a group they can get as at the moment they don’t actually have any of his species in the shop. He wouldn’t of been able to go back in the tank he came from at pets at home now anyway, he’s twice the size of there babies there and he probably would of terrorised them! got to say, the girls at the shop found it hilarious that I brought him there in a little sea monkey tank ( only for transportation as I said last night he spent the night in the breeding box) but sooner that then in a carrier bag and while I was there I bought two bags of brine shrimp for £2 to refill my sea monkey tank with seeing as I failed at hatching the eggs I got with the sea monkey set technically cheated but oh well fingers crossed these breed like the sea monkeys should have and I’ll have a constant supply of live food for them