I get carried away sometimes well everytime I go to the lfs I brought home a few bags of fish including 4 clown loachs for my 90g community plec tank what do these guys prefer for food and are they nocturnal also any info would be apreciated i've never kept loachs before thx in advance
clown loach info needed
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Well mine really likes frozen brine shrimps but I also feed them anything that would basically sink to the bottom. You can try brine shrimp pellets or spectrum pellets and frozen blood worms. They like to hide in small spaces so make sure you have some hiding caves for them. They will also come out and play during the day or night when they feel safe. Having dither fishes like tiger barbs would help with that.
The first clowns I got immediately schooled with my tiger barbs. I now have a total of six in two seperate tanks. They love to eat Algae wafers, blanched zuchini, and cooked frozen peas if you take the outer skin off first. They also eat most flake foods. Go to a web site called loaches online for more info. Great fish! 
I always hear 5 is the magic number to get clowns to be really active outgoing fish that live up to thier name.there a group at my drs office and they are anything but shy or nocturnal.Less than 5 and you dont see thier natural behavior.They get huge like 12" or so and really phat.And that switcblade under thier eye is cool to watch out for that lol.
ewurm said:
Mine make a clicking sound when they eat larger food items. I believe they have a capacity to suck in water at a fast rate, and when food or another object meets with the loaches mouth and brings this enhaled water to a sudden stop, you get a clicking noise. Just my interpretations through observation.
The clicking sound if I remeber right is when I believe they are happy. They pretty easy to take care of. You can see what I have mine with in my signature and they eat whatever I feed the fish in there. They eat flakes, blood and blackworms, krill, squid, mysis shrimp and practically whatever you put in there. If you want there best colors to come out feed them a diet with a lot of blood worms. My clowns have a bright orange color and almost blood red fins do to lot of bloodworms.