Clown Loaches

[Davidiator]

Need to know how to get Clown Loaches to breed and how to take care of young and everything. Thanks

 

[Bertie07]

Clown loaches have never been bred in captivity without the use of hormones in the water so no one really knows but your welcome to try, my best advice would be to recreate their natural habbitat as much and possible and also recreate the seasons and change up water flow, these are just guesses

 

[Davidiator]

oh ok thanks
did not know that no one had bred them : /

 

[Dat boi blu]

There are a few but I don't think they had very good hatch rate. They are not easy to breed. Large tank, good current, and lots of vegetation will be helpful

 

[RD.]

The hormones have to be injected into each female, it is a long and tedious process - that no hobbyist has ever duplicated sans hormones. Lots of smack talk, with no actual facts photos or vids of living fry to support any of it.

Start reading on page 3 if you are still interested. https://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/...loach-breeding-and-export-study.175030/page-3

 

[Hendre]

I have heard that the loaches are bred in earthen dams in Asia, or in farms using hormones. They probably breed on strong seasonal impulses and with their slow growth rate, it could take them many years to reach a good breeding size.

 

[Davidiator]

I heard that they can't be breed because in captivity few reach full size but in the wild they get bigger... could that be a posibility ?

 

[squint]

My females become gravid every year. The oldest are around 15 and they've been doing it for the past few years.

 

[RD.]

Read the info that I posted in the link above.

 

[RD.]

The person commenting lives in Indonesia, and worked within the industry buying and selling wild loaches from Kalimantan (Borneo) and Sumatra. It is his photos that I used for the sticky I have in this section.

Then you can all stop guessing .......