Floating Plants and Clown Loaches?
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It's news to me that clown loaches chew plants at all. I've kept clowns for many years, with and without plants and have never known them attack plants, including floating.
I've personally seen a breeding group of huge clown loach well over 12" in the UK, some 20 years ago at a Discus breeder's home, in a huge aquarium with breeding discus and masses of floating plants, although I can't ID the plant it was a very delicate species that is often kept with discus in the UK, if that helps.
I've personally seen a breeding group of huge clown loach well over 12" in the UK, some 20 years ago at a Discus breeder's home, in a huge aquarium with breeding discus and masses of floating plants, although I can't ID the plant it was a very delicate species that is often kept with discus in the UK, if that helps.
Well considering they're omnivores, of course they eat plants. Seems everytime I try to keep plants with them, they shred them as well as uproot them and move them around. Aiming for floating plants this go around as I have extra large CL's who tend to do the most damage.
Interesting, I've not had mine dig anything up.
Have you considered adding bog wood with java fern or anubias wired to it?
Floating plants seem the best for your situation.
Agree they are omnivorous fish, as mine relesh grapes, cucumber, peas and mango
Well this is a new group I just bought and an all new tank setup I'm slowly working on so we'll see. All my large cl's in the past have destroyed all plants.
Never had any problems with Clowns killing plants....maybe dogear-ing them a bit...
Maybe like what was said before, large leafed plants....
Maybe like what was said before, large leafed plants....
I put water hyacinth in my open top clown loach tank and they demolish them they eat right into the air sacks and hollow them out clicking like crazy... They even wriggle out on the surface trying to get every last bite. It gets them to hang out on the surface more which is good (for me) too.