will CL eat each other??

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oogie

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iam getting a 5-6" one tommorow for 12$ and i plan on getting some smaller ones too school with it in a few days but if they are say 2" will the lager clown eat them? also if they get ick i plan on useing heat and salt will this hurt a BGK and blood parrots?

thanks
 
oogie said:
iam getting a 5-6" one tommorow for 12$ and i plan on getting some smaller ones too school with it in a few days but if they are say 2" will the lager clown eat them? also if they get ick i plan on useing heat and salt will this hurt a BGK and blood parrots?

thanks
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I think they should be ok together. And you should always quaratine your fish for a couple of weeks before adding it to your main tank especially clown loaches as they're very sensitive to ich.
 
thanks, i dont realy have any main tanks right now just have smaller ones untile we move so right most of the fish are quarantine(the BPs and BGK are because i just got them afew days ago)
 
Heat shouldn't hurt the other fish as long as you have plenty of oxegen going in the tank. More heat=less oxygen.

Also bigger clown loaches can, and sometimes will eat smaller ones, like oddball said. The member who had his loaches eaten by bigger ones had 2'' with 12'' ones. I have a 6in loach in with 1 1/2'' to 3'' loaches, all of which do fine with the big one. But I wouldn't go any smaller than 2'' just to be safe.
 
In my case yes they did eat about 4 med cl's. The size of my big cls were 7" to 9" I found a couple bits and pieces around in the gravel but was hoping that they were hiding
 
CLs can get weird and aggressive sometimes.

I came home to my whole shoal tearing apart a carcass one day. It was all eye-spines and deathrolls and some where some how I lost two of my smallest CLs to the aggression. Never before or since.
 
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