My new clown loaches

[Gr8KarmaSF]

Keep holding your head close to the tank

or in the tank...lol

 

[JD_MAN]

Those are some nice looking loaches, they have great colors.

I can hear mine clicking from across the room. It gets really bad when it's feeding time.

 

[Pangong_ilong]

Really!? Hmm. Probably my temensis scare them. That's why they don't produce the clicking sound. My temensis keep on testing them if they can fit in his mouth lol.

 

[bmxer4ever]

How big are your new Clowns? Look good.
Mine don't click until they get at least 3-4" long. Big 6" has been clicking away since I got him, but now the next biggest one has joined in. Sounds like someone throwin gravel at the glass..! Maybe yours are just a bit too small..?
Anyone know what size they are supposed to start clicking?
Or do they do it from birth?

 

[JD_MAN]

How big are your new Clowns? Look good.
Mine don't click until they get at least 3-4" long. Big 6" has been clicking away since I got him, but now the next biggest one has joined in. Sounds like someone throwin gravel at the glass..! Maybe yours are just a bit too small..?
Anyone know what size they are supposed to start clicking?
Or do they do it from birth?

My CL were doing it when they were 2-3". It scared me the first time I heard it, I thought that my tank was cracking.

I have been wodering why they do it?

 

[eman b115]

I got (3) 4-4.5" clown loaches and I've never heard them click

 

[suzydiver]

By click, do you mean when they eat? I have 4 clowns and I just LOVE watching them. They are just so easy going and are not intimidated by anything in the tank...I would have a tank full but, I think I have just the right number of fish right now!

 

[Joefish]

holy crap!! nice color on them! and to think i just gave away a 5" CL

 

[bmxer4ever]

By click, do you mean when they eat? I have 4 clowns and I just LOVE watching them. They are just so easy going and are not intimidated by anything in the tank...I would have a tank full but, I think I have just the right number of fish right now!

They tend to click when they are eating or having a little argument between themselves... Have yours done the little dance yet..?
Two Clowns go side by side, all fins erect and then they "shimmy"? Kinda like a face off?! My little ones did it at first - "I'm the biggest and best 2 inch Clown Loach"... "No I am..."
Hilarious! Now my big ones do it as well, which gets quite violent, dashing around the tank when theyre done at a hundred miles an hour, and THATS when they click. No harm done though - I think it's all just for show.