Brand new juvie clown loaches!!!

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Should I set up my empty 10g tank and grow them out a little bit? How do I get them all to come out of the driftwood?
 
10 gal. would be perfect..
Might have to place a net under the piece and remove it slowly. Hopefully the loaches will fall out. You could remove the wood from the tank and just rangle up the fish before the JD.
 
Clowns are nutorious for hiding all day long in spaces smaller then themselves. Expect it, prepare for it. It's not uncommon to have a school of clowns bunched up in a tiny peice of pipe.
 
Mystix212;1432612; said:
Clowns are nutorious for hiding all day long in spaces smaller then themselves. Expect it, prepare for it. It's not uncommon to have a school of clowns bunched up in a tiny peice of pipe.

...to the point where you only see one or two (at most) at a time? There is a small hole in the wood that I see some of them come out of, ikt doesn't look big enough for all five though. My fiance is convinced that my JD ate some of them.
 
jasonmac978;1433704; said:
...to the point where you only see one or two (at most) at a time? There is a small hole in the wood that I see some of them come out of, ikt doesn't look big enough for all five though. My fiance is convinced that my JD ate some of them.
You'd be literally suprised by how tight they can get themselves. Back when I had 5 clowns, I lifted up a 5" long by 1.75" diameter peice of black PVC only to find all of my clowns in there. They were all in the 2.5"-3.5" size range.
 
Mystix212;1434954; said:
You'd be literally suprised by how tight they can get themselves. Back when I had 5 clowns, I lifted up a 5" long by 1.75" diameter peice of black PVC only to find all of my clowns in there. They were all in the 2.5"-3.5" size range.

WOW! I guess I am going to have to search harder.
 
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