My 5 3-inch clown loaches are in my 125 Amazon (otherwise) community tank. I have a lot of large Amazon swords in there. The swords were just added recently. This particular tank used to house my gars and silver dollars until those guys got a 180. The plants were upstairs in a 55 gallon just growing like crazy until I moved them into this tank. The fish themselves moved from a 110 I had which only had plastic plants. So, I'm not sure if this damage is from moving the plants (looks kind of funny -- holes in the middle of the leaves) or the loaches. Other tankmates -- rummynose tetras, penguin tetras, cardinal tetras, emerald cories, swartz's cories, angelfish, silver hatchets, marble hatchets. And I think that's it. So, are the loaches to blame here? They certainly look like loach-mouth sized holes. What do you think?
I don't have anywhere else to put them (the loaches, or the plants)! Hopefully, the plants can take it. I guess they'll just be full of holes. I've done a lot of research and had never read anything about this. I've grown these plants for a year (from a third of the size they are now), only to move them into the tank they were meant for from the beginning, and now this... the loaches are so darned cute, though. Oh, well. Thanks for confirming my suspicions.
