First, you must find a sexually mature pair around 6 inches in length. Keep them in separate tanks for a few weeks and feed them highly nutritious foods. Females will appear to have a larger width during this period indicating the production of roe. When the female appears larger, the male and female should be placed in an aquarium with lots of plants and excellent water quality.
A water temperature of When the female has released her eggs and the male has fertilized them, the male and female should be removed to avoid them eating the eggs. If successfully hatched, the tiny fry can be fed live cultivated infusoria. As they begin to grow, they should be moved onto baby brine shrimp, tubifex worms, and even ground-up fish flake food. Clown Loach is an extremely social species and would make a great addition to any community tank.
They are best kept by people with previous fish keeping experience, due to the fact they are more susceptible to diseases than other aquarium fish. You will notice they enjoy spending most of their time in the lower levels of the aquarium, eating leftover foods. They are like a pack of aquarium puppy dogs, chasing and playing with one another throughout the day.
These fish are so much fun and are sure to have you jumping for joy if you decide they are the fish for you. I did have some trouble with them, mostly because mine always were very frightened of everything. I have a question. Can you keep Silver Dollar fish and Gouramis in the same tank. I have a very large square tank that I am going to put the Dollars in, together with Clown fish and would like to put one or two other fish in with them as well.
What do you recommend. Hi Kay, it really depends on the species and temperament of each fish. Some Gouramis are known to be on the more aggressive side and might attack the Silver Dollars. Thanks, Robert. He has to stay a singleton for the time being but even so, he is very outgoing and seems super happy.
Love this fish! I had 7 in one of my Aquariums, they were the family and friends favorite fish. When I lost one I could see a difference in the behavior of the rest for a few days. I have a shoal of 8 midsize loaches that have grown in size from 3 to 6 in with a beautiful alpha female being the largest.
They live in a hollowed log surrounded by Amazon swords and other Flora for privacy. I have them in a gal with a 50 gal sump with a planted refugium. They live among Discus and other community fish. I thought the plants and shaded areas would have added to their confidence but instead they seem more timid outside of feeding or nocturnal.
They usually dart back to behind the plants if they see movement etc. Is this normal until the shoal is more fully grown by adding confidence? It seems like since I have provided more background they are more sensitive to external stimuli. Any advice or thoughts? I have 3 clown loaches in my tank I have bred large numbers of bristlenose catfish. For quite a while now I havent had any baby bristlenose.
Breeding caves have males inside. I have noticed 1 of the clown loaches pushing its way inside one of the caves whilst the male is still inside. Are the loaches a possible reason for the lack of baby bristlenose or would you consider other factors. I have a ltr fish tank and have 4 Clown Loaches, no other fish.
Clown loaches prefer to have a significant amount of current in their tank, and this can be provided with either a power head, or a large HOB hang-on back filter. A canister filter can be a good choice for a clown loach tank, but just be sure that they are provided with some current in another form.
I would strongly recommend choosing an Aquaclear Power Filter for a clown loach tank. This filter combines excellent filtration with a durable design, and it will keep your tank sparkling clear for years to come.
Since they are found in rocky streams with abundant plant life, any aquarium that they are kept in should be modeled after this. It should contain large, rounded river rocks though sand will work too , and there should also be a significant number of plants. Clown loaches are opportunistic omnivores, and will feed on insects, invertebrates and plant matter in the wild. In the home aquarium, they should be fed a diet that is mainly comprised of high quality flake food and shrimp pellets.
They can also be fed live or frozen food as treats, and they will eat any snails that they can find in the aquarium. To ensure that they get enough food, they should be fed sinking food in the form of pellets, or frozen food that tends to sink to the bottom of the tank.
Some good frozen foods are blackworms, blood worms and in some cases brine shrimp, and Hikari Sinking Wafers is one of the best sinking foods you can feed them. They should also occasionally be fed vegetables, and their favorites are blanched and shelled peas, and zucchini medallions. These only need to be feed approximately once a week, and vegetables can be substituted with herbivore flakes or spirulina pellets.
Clown loaches, like most other species of loaches, will also eat any available snails in their aquarium. However, they tend to ignore the larger species of snails and have trouble eating Malaysian trumpet snails.
They should never be purchased to clean out a snail infestation, but they will help to keep snails numbers in check. Reports of people successfully breeding clowns loaches in home aquariums are extremely rare. But if you want to make an attempt to breed them, there are a few things you can do to increase your chances. Obviously, the first thing that you want to do is to find a sexually mature breeding pair.
They usually take quite a while to reach sexual maturity, and the best way to ensure that you have a sexually mature pair is to only use fish that are at least 6 inches long. The larger the fish, the better your chances of successfully breeding them. You can sex clown loaches by looking at their tail fins. The males tailfin is bent slightly inwards while the females looks more like a traditional tailfin.
The females will also be quite a bit plumper than the males, but this can be difficult to identify without a fair bit of experience. Once you have a pair ready to breed, they should be kept in a tank that is heavily planted, with perfectly maintained water. Nitrates should be as low as humanly possible, and the pH should be right around neutral. They must then be conditioned with live food, and should be fed several times a day. Females at this point will begin to rapidly gain weight and after a few weeks of conditioning, mating may take place.
Like most other egg layers, they should be removed after spawning and their eggs will hatch within several days. After several days, the fry will become free swimming and must be fed at this point. They can be fed baby brine shrimp, or any of the other commercially available fry foods.
After about two weeks, they will be large enough to accept powdered flake food and will begin to grow very quickly. All comments are moderated and will appear after they have been approved. Comments are generally approved within 24 hours. Iv got 9 clown loach mixed with a few tetra, guppys, platys. They even spend alot of time swimming against my power head just as they would be doing in a natural stream and any mess made from them is soon sucked up either into my external fluval or to my internal uv fluval who knew a few little uv bulbs could condition the water so much.
Clown loaches will definitely prefer sand to gravel. As for the sand though, you need to be careful with it. Since you already have plants, your odds of this happening are far less though. Also, care must be taken when stirring up the sand in the bottom. Always turn off your filter if your cleaning or stirring up the sand.
It can get sucked up into the impeller and damage it. Beyond that, sand is great and I have it in almost all of my tanks. Not only does it look better, but it is much easier to clean than gravel. I hope this helps.
Hi, looking for some advice! My clown loaches have been acting strange for last few months. I did think they were breeding but after reading how difficult it is to breed them I honestly forgot about it. I moved them 3 days ago from a 30 litre into my litre tank as Ive moved my giant gourami into a litre tank! I have removed eggs as I was worried they would be eaten and put them back into 30litre tank!
What should I do! Could really do with some Advice! Is the new tank cycled? Beyond that, it was a good idea to remove them from the tank, as they will eat their eggs. Once they are hatched, feed them baby brine shrimp, microworms, or liquid fry food. Hi Robert first of all thank you for replying to my post. After posting on a few sites asking for advice, a lot of people think they are left over eggs from my plecs!
Thank you again for you advice. However, I should warn you that an empty tank will not be cycled, no matter how long it has been set up. The bacteria that process the waste require a constant food source fish waste, decaying food, etc , or they will die off. An empty tank will not have enough bacteria present to handle any sudden spike in waste. If you already know this, then just ignore the advice. I get a lot of people with different levels of experience on here, so I find myself repeating the basics a lot just to be on the safe side.
What you said about housing the fish in a group no less than 6 is straight BS, I got only 3 clown loaches in my tank and they always swim together and they stick to me every time I come near the tank and they are very peaceful in the tank.
Please make sure you try anything before posting it to hobbyists, specially for these fish because they are expensive. Yes, because your one experience invalidates all the research about these fish.
Every single document available about this fish describes the complex social hierarchy they form, and how they will suffer if kept in small groups. Many experienced aquarists actually recommend keeping them in groups of no less than ten.
Your comment is like saying you know someone who kept a lion in their bedroom, and because it was healthy and happy, everyone should be able to keep a lion in their bedroom. I have a snail over load.
I also have some ghost shrimp and i know they will get eaten but hopefully they will like snails better. They will definitely eat snails, but it often takes them some time to get going. Normally they will just help to control it.
You should read it if you need any further help controlling your snail population. Thanks for you reply. I am very happy with the small clown loaches. What the heck?? My clown loach is 16 years old, and only about 5 inches long. She must be a miniature. Maybe you got the mini-me of clown loaches. I have been an aquarium fish owner for about 6 months and I would like to say that almost every bit of advice I have been told by the pet stores where I purchased the fish and tanks with regards to the behaviour, tank hierarchy and advice on which fish to keep well together and which are peaceful or agressive, have all proven to be incorrect.
I think its fair to say that there are no finite rules and that you will never see anything out of the ordinary if you refuse to allow it to be in the first place. I have an agresssive female fighting fish, and her male is submissive, I have to remove him to protect him from her. My clown loaches are very happy and very peaceful, they are only 2, they live with 5 guppys, 2 bumblebees, 5 hockey tails and a female fighting fish in a L tank with 2 filters.
My L tank houses 10 neon tetra, 5 orange tetra, 3 upside down catfish, i big catfish that rules the tank looks like a bristlenose sort-of , 2 large bristlenose, 1 very large angel fish, 2 tiger barbs, and 2 goramis , 2 electric blue rameriz, and 2 other blue rameriz type fish, they all love living together and are peaceful, they eat a lot but my tank is crystal clear with perfect levels of everything, i cleann itt around once per fortnight.
Just sayin…. Normally you try and go by levels, top , mid and bottom dwellers. Most fish do need to be in groups of 6 or more. For multiple reasons. Are there dead fish in the aquariums? Is the water clean? If some tanks are mistreated there is a good chance that there might be unfavourable conditions in others too.
Only buy fish from stores that take good care of their aquariums. How do they look? These loaches can give you an indication of their condition based on their coloration.
A healthy one clear distinct colours, while a stressed one loses its colours and becomes whiter. Only buy loaches that show their correct colours.
Are they well fed? Those that haven't been fed correctly are hard to nurse back to health, and it is more than likely you will end up with a dead fish if you buy one. Look at their bodies and see if they look well fed, and ask the shopkeepers how often and what the loaches are fed. Are they active? Healthy clowns are very active and full of energy. A healthy loach should be hard to catch.
Do they have hiding places? Hiding places are very important to relieve stress in clown loaches, and you are likely to get higher quality fish from aquariums with hiding places. Health As I said earlier, they are very sensitive towards poor water quality and are usually the first fish that get ill or die if the water quality drops. Because of their low tolerance to poor water qualities they are sometimes called indicator fish, since their health indicates the status of the aquarium.
These loaches are very sensitive to chlorine, and even small amounts can cause a mass death of loaches. Food They are carnivores and only eat vegetables to complement their diet. It is therefore recommended that they are given food that reflects this. To get them to grow, optimal feeding times a day is recommended. They still grow slowly. Their diet should contain a variety of foods, and can include almost any carnivorous food.
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