Is This An "Odd Ball" Clown Loach?

[Jon M]

So I picked up a shoal of school clown loach maybe a month ago and have them growing out in my 100g. They're all doing great. The smallest one of the shoal seems to be more pale in color where the yellow is and his middle black stripe doesn't connect at the bottom like the rest of the shoal or any other ones I've see.

It was really hard to get a picture of this guy since he's tiny and moves around all the time but I'm pretty sure you can see what I mean. Is this non connection of the middle bar on the bottom abnormal or does this occur fairly common in clown loach?

 

[supergourami]

odd ball

 

[Joshmac8]

i'd say so! Nice!

 

[dempsey420]

ya looks like it.... how bout mine? look at his mouth. kinda rounded off, not pointed like the others. he was really pale too when i got em but i knew i hadta save em.

 

[dempsey420]

sorry for the blurry pics

 

[jvai]

oh, keep these coming please...


CL= Awesome

 

[Jon M]

Very cool! I've seen decent demand for odd ball clown loach. Not that I have any intentions on selling him. More excited for him to get bigger so his odd ballness is more distinguishing and visible. I really don't know why he's more pale. I assumed he wasn't doing well since he was the only one but he seems totally fine weeks later and swims around fine. Sometimes he'll go to the surface and turn upside down which I thought was odd at first and I thought he might even be dead, but when I went up to the tank and touched the water he'd fly away real fast.

Yours looks very interesting as well. Looks like maybe something tried to attack him from the front? Something to explain the rounded off front nose area... Wish that was a more clear picture so I could see even better what's going on there.

Keep the pics coming? Heh'. Here's three more of the shoal. They are all from snookn21 btw. (that includes the odd ball)

 

[shamboner]

cool looking loach. I love schooling fish! odd balls will be odd balls lol

 

[dempsey420]

funny thing is my 1st year of fish keeping i hated em. now i wish i could get more lol

 

[jvai]

your thread... has literally made me buy and oddball loach... I spotted him a while back but today I brought him home. I love CL's anyone got any more oddball CL pix?