Sorry to hear about your loach. Its terrible to lose one, but at least it
wasn't long and drawn out.

The clown loaches that show up in the aquarium trade apparently come mostly
from borneo or sumatra. The ones I have (and most of the ones I've seen
here in Australia) are from sumatra - they have slightly more brightly
coloured fins than the borneo ones. Loaches on line have an article on how
to tell where your loach hails from http://www.loaches.com/markings.shtml

Kate


"Haywire" wrote in message
able.rogers.com...
sigh, buried one of mine in the porcelain funeral home this morning, 12
hrs
of being sick and that was it. Oh well still have 3.

what's a sumatran clown anyway?



"Kate Quirk" wrote in message
...
I got all three of them in January. The biggest one, Caesar, is
probably
about 7 cm long, and Pompey and Crassus are about 6cm long - they've
each
grown about a centimetre in length in the time I've had them, but have
gotten a great deal fatter and "taller". They've always tended to be
shy.
Pompey and Crassus play a lot together - possibly trying to work out who
is
second in charge, while Caesar does the "lone loach in the mist" thing a
bit. I am keen to get some more little ones (can't afford big ones,
plus
I
like to watch my fish grow), but I'm a bit worried they might suffer as
the
pecking order is re-assessed. How are loaches with accepting new (and
smaller) companions?

Kate

"LeighMo" wrote in message
...
Sounds like you have a great tank for clown loaches. It might help to
get
a
few more of them.

How big are they, and how long have you had them? My loaches took
months
to
come out when I moved them to a larger tank. IME, the larger the
loaches
are,
the shyer they are. The little ones are fearless, but the older they
get,
the
more cautious they become.


Leigh

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