blue botia

[badfish]

Anyone have experience with mixing blue botia with clown loach.A lfs in my area has about 5 i was thinking about picking them up.

 

[Potts050]

My experience with blue botias is that they are quite aggressive and eager to use their eyeblades when competing for food. They can do a lot of damage to other fish in a feeding scrum. apart from that they seem to get along with most fish unless they decide to move in to another fishes hiding place.

 

[Bderick67]

I have 3 blue botias, 7 CL and 4 yoyos all 4-6". They have all been together for 8-9 months with no problems. Currently they are all sharing a 55g, while I am remodeling a 150g tank.

 

[ewurm]

Anyone have experience with mixing blue botia with clown loach.A lfs in my area has about 5 i was thinking about picking them up.

They get territorial when they are larger.

 

[toehead11183]

i just gave mine to the LFS because wifey got a black rhom and i didnt have another tank to put him in. they put him(3") in the tank with clowns (4") and he whooped their azzes

 

[Delhezi222]

They get territorial when they are larger.

Agreed.
Some botias get nasty.
Especially skunks, but that's off topic.....

 

[Lupin]

Anyone have experience with mixing blue botia with clown loach.A lfs in my area has about 5 i was thinking about picking them up.

Don't even try mixing them.

 

[Zeppelin3k]

my 5-6inch botia tryed to kill my clowns, not a good combo atall

 

[badfish]

My tank is a 240 lots of hiding places ,seams like a compatibility gamble sometimes it works other times it doesn't.

 

[Lupin]

My tank is a 240 lots of hiding places ,seams like a compatibility gamble sometimes it works other times it doesn't.

Most likely it won't. Not worth mixing at all. Why not just stick with other loach species? Yasuhikotakia modesta are pretty common and there are plenty others which are more suitable than them.