can i keep clown loaches???

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
unannon;2553954; said:
I would think it could work. If it doesn't don't be surprised either. There are just certain fish that for some reason go by unnoticed, in terms of my fishkeeping. No one ever touched my senegal, bushfish, or my clown loaches no matter what I kept with them (make sure sizes are same though so they can't get eaten) even when I had massive aggression issues in the 90.For the clowns though, I think a bit of this might have to do with the swimming levels for the clowns, as your CA & SA are mid to top, where the clowns unless feeding are bottom, so they don't come in contact as much and therefore are somewhat ignored, where as another midlevel would draw more attention.

In my CA/SA tank, it's as if the CL's and Senegals are invisible to the other fish.
 
The problem I have had with Clowns and multiple aggressive cichlids isn't that the cichlids attack them, it's that they are aggressive with each other, sending them scurrying everytime a confrontation occurs and stressing them out. Eventually they end up hiding all the time.
 
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