Tiny Clown Loaches

sailor

sailor

Sailor
Jan 29, 2007
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Dundurn SK Canada
I was at a LFS 3 weeks ago and saw the smallest clown loaches I have ever seen. They were in a mixed planted tank. There were 15 or so of them. I went back last week and most of them were gone. I said to the clerk that I didn't think anyone would buy them that small, he said they hadn't been, that they had been eaten. So I bought the last 5 of them. They ranged from 1/2 an inch to 3/4 of an inch long. I wanted to save them. I bought a breeders net and hung it off my big tank. I floated them and slowly dripped water from my front tank for 5 hrs to get them used to the water. They have been the breeders net now for a week. They have grown a bit and seem to be doing great. My kits have not shown much more than passing interest in them. I am feeding them finely crushed up NLS growth and flake. Eventually I want to release them into the tank with my kits.

Here are a few pics of the little guys.

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Sailor
 
wow! they are so small! good thing you rescued them, as their fate was probably not looking much better than their former tank mates'
 
wow! those are incredible.
 
you are going to have them for a LONG time

you probably already know that they are gonig to need a 180 gallon.... but they are so small it could be years before they are even six inches long, adn you already have a 120 gallon (so start saving your pennies lol)

good find though...maybe these are the first tank bred clown loaches?
 
jm1212 said:
good find though...maybe these are the first tank bred clown loaches?
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Yes and no...a few Asian fish farms have been spawning them with hormones for a couple of years now....so they are captive 'bred', but not naturally (which has still yet to be done). I just got in about 300 ¾"-1" clown loaches from a Singapore farm.
 
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