90g, with 20 neons, 10 guppys, 1 dwarf gourami, 6 Cory's, and 6 horsefaced loaches. I'd like to add a few clown or golden zebra loaches. Can I do this, or are they likely to be too aggressive?
Can I add loaches
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i’m not the loach master but the yo yo is the only loach i’ve experienced any aggression with -
how’s the nitrate?
Nitrate is fine, ~10ppm. It has a Cascade 1000 canister, and HOB AC50, with weekly 40% water changes.
Unfortunately you are going to have to rehome some existing fish and possibly upgrade the tank (not a bad thing actually) if you want to add either of those loach species.
Clown loaches need a larger tank than a 341 liter (you want something at least 473 liters and 1.83m long for them), and while golden zebra loaches will be fine in a 341 liter for life, both they and the clown loaches will end up harassing the cory catfish due to their size, activity, and bold despositions.
I have very little experience mixing loaches with guppes/neons, and none at all keeping dwarf gourami, so I'll let others comment on how they would cohabitate. However, I suspect DrownedFishonFire isn't wrong - neons at least are very fragile, so they coud be stressed by the loaches.
Clown loaches need a larger tank than a 341 liter (you want something at least 473 liters and 1.83m long for them), and while golden zebra loaches will be fine in a 341 liter for life, both they and the clown loaches will end up harassing the cory catfish due to their size, activity, and bold despositions.
I have very little experience mixing loaches with guppes/neons, and none at all keeping dwarf gourami, so I'll let others comment on how they would cohabitate. However, I suspect DrownedFishonFire isn't wrong - neons at least are very fragile, so they coud be stressed by the loaches.
Aside from the horsefaced loaches I have now, are there other loaches that would be able to work in this tank? I'm not willing to get rid if anyone already living in the tank.
Can't go wrong with kuhli loaches. Not very boisterous at all, so it's unlikely they'd cause the problems clown/golden zebra loaches would.
Try the smaller loaches, like chain loaches.
And the horsface loaches, there are different types. Some stay small, and others grow to four or five inches and will not go with neons and guppies.
And the horsface loaches, there are different types. Some stay small, and others grow to four or five inches and will not go with neons and guppies.
I love khulis. But they get everywhere, everywhere ! Gaps and crevices that you think an amoebae could not get through, a khuli will get in there.