peacock bass and clown loaches?

[dangerhack]

will 2 or 3 pbass do ok with 5 or 6 clown loach if all bought as babies?

 

[JML1997]

The clown loaches should be larger than the cichla to ensure that they won't end up as a feeder...

 

[cpr_mike]

JML is right. The bass will be big enough to eat loaches that were babies at the same time as the bass within the year.

 

[dangerhack]

JML is right. The bass will be big enough to eat loaches that were babies at the same time as the bass within the year.

so maybe instead of 2 inch clowloaches ill buy 4 inch clown loaches .. a get smallest pbass possbile liek 1.5 inch 2 inch... ill have alot of hiding places also for the CL .. i figure it they grow up together an are fed right that might be ok?

 

[cpr_mike]

so maybe instead of 2 inch clowloaches ill buy 4 inch clown loaches .. a get smallest pbass possbile liek 1.5 inch 2 inch... ill have alot of hiding places also for the CL .. i figure it they grow up together an are fed right that might be ok?

The mass between a 2 inch clown loach and a 4 inch clown loach is quite a bit. Thats obviously a good thing. Go as big as you possibly can to be safe. Id safe fiver inchers and you should be fine for a good amount of time. I remember one guy selling off a whole school of clown loaches that were all about 6 inches because his bass were eyein them. The growth rate that I have had from my clown loaches that were already 5-6 inches was about an inch and a half a year. I have grown a bass about 13-15 inches a year. Just food for thought when you decide how big of a loach you get.

 

[dangerhack]

The mass between a 2 inch clown loach and a 4 inch clown loach is quite a bit. Thats obviously a good thing. Go as big as you possibly can to be safe. Id safe fiver inchers and you should be fine for a good amount of time. I remember one guy selling off a whole school of clown loaches that were all about 6 inches because his bass were eyein them. The growth rate that I have had from my clown loaches that were already 5-6 inches was about an inch and a half a year. I have grown a bass about 13-15 inches a year. Just food for thought when you decide how big of a loach you get.

yea i hear ya thats why im tryn to do it right.. ive never had Pbass before.. do they alway go to eat fish even if well fed? or all depends on the fish... ? how big are your pbass now mike?

 

[ado124]

unless you figure out a way to get the loaches a lot of food while feeding the bass the bare minimum to stay alive, the bass will outgrow the loaches sooner than later and they will become feeders.

bass can always eat more....i swear their stomachs are bottomless. no matter how well fed you may think they are, they will think they can fit more into their bellies.

 

[cpr_mike]

yea i hear ya thats why im tryn to do it right.. ive never had Pbass before.. do they alway go to eat fish even if well fed? or all depends on the fish... ? how big are your pbass now mike?

Pbass never stop eating like Ado said. They will eat pellets to the point that you can see the shape of the pellets pushed against their sides. I sold my big bass and started over about six months ago but I still see them pretty often. They are about 17 inches. Havent grown any really since I sold them. The ones I have now are all around 7-9 inches.