Kuhli and clowns?

[toehead11183]

Im fixin to set up a 55g bottom dweller tank and im looking for some new candidates. Right now im going to move all my spot loaches (4), 3 yoyos and a burmese. Im also going to move my 6" peacock eel and a 3" madtom catfish in to. I want to get a few kuhli loaches. My biggest loach is 5" and i want to make sure he wont thing the kuhli is a big worm because ive seen him take off with some pretty big earthworms.

 

[Lupin]

No, you cannot keep kuhlis with botiine loaches, toehead. Kuhlis just don't appreciate too feisty tankmates and will never come out of hiding. If you want these kuhlis, consider a 20g heavily planted tank.

 

[ewurm]

I agree with Lupin. Those are too small to fend for themselves with botiine loaches.

 

[is300zx]

you should just get more clown loaches. a large group of CL looks much better than small groups of different loaches.

 

[toehead11183]

i have 9 clowns but i dont know if there will be room for all of them in with the others. its only a 55

 

[is300zx]

i have 9 clowns but i dont know if there will be room for all of them in with the others. its only a 55

how big are they? if most of them are under 4-5" then they should be fine in the 55 for a while. you could also increase the yoyo loach numbers instead if you don't want more CLs.

 

[Lupin]

how big are they? if most of them are under 4-5" then they should be fine in the 55 for a while. you could also increase the yoyo loach numbers instead if you don't want more CLs.

..and the burmese border.

 

[toehead11183]

I was thinking of more yoyos but i like clowns more and if i tell myself only large or oddball clowns, i wont go nuts and buy up a million clowns. If i see more borders, i may get 2 more. last time i started going nuts on clowns, i bought 10 in a week and got overstocked very quickly. i have to set limits to my inner fish dork.