clown loach (lots of pics)

clunkster · Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 12:33 am Post subject: clown loach (lots of pics)

here are a few pictures of my clowns Cool

if your still here i did say there was lots of pics Laughing

thanks for looking Cool

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parrotlover77 · Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 4:18 am Post subject: great

Those loaches sure look excited. Great action shots! Very Happy

clunkster · Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 12:46 pm Post subject:

thank you they are normaly camera shy Very Happy

(there are some more pics of them in the loach section)

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Billy-Bones · Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2006 9:30 pm Post subject:

Nice i love loaches. I have a Kuhli in my 10 gallon planted but he is buried in the sand all day long and only comes out at night. Very hard to get a pic of him, but i am trying. I got him to try and eat baby snails, but that must a myth or mine doesn't have a taste for escargo(sp), cuz this guy hasn't done a thing for them. How big is that tank, how big are those guys now and how many did you get??

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clunkster · Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 9:05 am Post subject:

Billy-Bones wrote:

Nice i love loaches. I have a Kuhli in my 10 gallon planted but he is buried in the sand all day long and only comes out at night. Very hard to get a pic of him, but i am trying. I got him to try and eat baby snails, but that must a myth or mine doesn't have a taste for escargo(sp), cuz this guy hasn't done a thing for them. How big is that tank, how big are those guys now and how many did you get??

not the right kind of loach to eat snails.
the tank they are in is 6ft x 3ft x 2ft so as you can see they have plenty of room they are between 4 1/2" to 5" in size now and i have 5 in this tank

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Kana3 · Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 11:59 am Post subject:

They're a very gregarious fish, aren't they.

Our two never seperate. They even share a piece of poly-pipe, and that really amazes me how they both fit in there.

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clunkster · Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 12:05 pm Post subject:

they are that, that is why i say too see them in in their true glory they need to be kept in groups, it tickles me that you say, you dont know how they fit in the poly pipe Laughing

well i have a piece of bogwood that is hollow and it amazes me that all 5 fit inside Cool

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Billy-Bones · Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 3:41 pm Post subject:

Yeah i was told that the kuhli would eat the babies and the eggs, and fit in a 10 gallon, i don't know much about loaches. But I am seeing now this person is mistaken.

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clunkster · Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 3:52 pm Post subject:

To be honest i dont think i have ever heard of anybody using khuli loache's for this, but in a 10 gal tank you might want to look at Botia sidthimunki which is a dwarf loach, at grows to about 2 1/4"

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Kana3 · Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 3:53 pm Post subject:

But behaviour is not absolute.

There's plenty of anecdotal evidence suggesting that a given species does not behave the same way in everyones tank.

For myself, my Cories from one tank to the other, have a totally different regard to human presence. In one tank, your approach if not careful, will send them all into hiding.

In the other tank, I have to keep pushing them aside with my hand when I'm cleaning or re-planting 'cos the buggers are always in the way ! They will even come 'sniffing' onto your open palm.

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clunkster · Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 3:55 pm Post subject:

Do you think this could be the reason i keep saying fish cant read hate laughing

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