Tigers and Clowns?

[straitjacketstar]

My tiger loaches (Syncrossus helodes) are ***holes. I love my tigers but would like some colorful loaches I could see once in a while that wouldn't be eaten by my larger cichlids. I've never had clown loaches before but was interested in obtaining some. Does anyone think mixing clown loaches and pricky tigers is a terrible idea?

 

[Ak-Kronic]

i have never owned tiger loaches but i kept a bunch of clowns and 1 red tail botia and the botia didn't want to have anything to do w/ the clowns he was rather mean to them anytime they would swim by or just sniff around him he would click at them really loud!!!

 

[Lupin]

Don't mix those tiger loaches with anything else that cannot hold their own especially clowns. Try the Yasuhikotakia morleti, Y. eos and Yasuhikotakia modesta. I mix mine with the modestas as modestas are just as nasty themselves.

 

[straitjacketstar]

Don't mix those tiger loaches with anything else that cannot hold their own especially clowns. Try the Yasuhikotakia morleti, Y. eos and Yasuhikotakia modesta. I mix mine with the modestas as modestas are just as nasty themselves.

This is good news, as I have eyeballed Y. eos and modesta for quite some time. It's just hard finding any that are not dyed.
Maybe not the most colorful things but hopefully a little more viewable than the ever-hiding tigers. Most I can get out of them is some rumbling of the PVC pipes they hide in and angry clicking.

 

[Lupin]

Y. eos isn't dyed. I've never known a single one to be dyed. Usually it's the Y. modesta that are which is very unfortunate. Skunks are fine. Both the skunks and modestas are very active and click very loudly when they clash each other.

 

[straitjacketstar]

Y. eos isn't dyed. I've never known a single one to be dyed. Usually it's the Y. modesta that are which is very unfortunate. Skunks are fine. Both the skunks and modestas are very active and click very loudly when they clash each other.

Skunks, I'm afraid, will be eaten by my larger Central American cichlids.

 

[Lupin]

Skunks, I'm afraid, will be eaten by my larger Central American cichlids.

What species are they? Skunks grow to 3-4 inches max but they're ridiculously slow growers which is the downside.

 

[ewurm]

My tiger loaches (Syncrossus helodes) are ***holes. I love my tigers but would like some colorful loaches I could see once in a while that wouldn't be eaten by my larger cichlids. I've never had clown loaches before but was interested in obtaining some. Does anyone think mixing clown loaches and pricky tigers is a terrible idea?

Tigers with large clown loaches works for me, but the will chase the small ones.

 

[straitjacketstar]

What species are they? Skunks grow to 3-4 inches max but they're ridiculously slow growers which is the downside.

A. citrinellus, Vieja hartwegi, Cren, johanii, Nandopsis tetracanthus and will also have some catfish in there that will eat them without much problem. So far the cichlids are still young and I'm gowing the tigers out with the cichlids but they'll max out at much larger sizes than skunks will.

 

[straitjacketstar]

Tigers with large clown loaches works for me, but the will chase the small ones.

My largest tiger is about 5-6". The others are about 4".
Bigger clowns are hard to come by and I cringe at the prices on them when I do find them at decent sizes.

I'm thinking maybe the best thing would be to add more tigers and reduce the amount of hiding places I've given them so that I may actually see them.