Can I add baby loaches with an adult?

[saturday]

Hi- I was wondering if I can add 1 or 2 baby loaches to my existing tank. I currently have a 20 gal with an angelfish, 2 bronze corys, 1 pakistani (yoyo) loach, 3 black fin tetras and a small pleco. I have had this set-up for a year and a half, and these fish have been together longer as I received them all from someone who was getting out of the hobby. They are all full-size and have been since I got them.
I got a new 38 gal and have stocked it with one angelfish from my 20 gal (they no longer got along) eight small serpae tetras, 6 black phantom tetras, a lemon-spotted green pleco and 4 baby green corys. I was wondering if I could move my adult bronze corys to the 38 gal with the baby green corys, and add 1 or 2 baby pakistani loaches, or clown loaches in the 20 gal with the adult pakistani loach or if he would harass them as he has been by himself for so long? I have read in different places both that they are loners and that they like to be in groups. Thank you for any advice!

 

[OrionGirl]

Adding more pakistani's could be risky. Clown loaches will seriously outgrow a 20--would you be able to move them up to a much larger tank down the line?

 

[mwood322]

I haven't had problems adding yo-yos, as long as the ones you add are healthy. I had a pair that was alone for a while, and adding more never seemed to bother them. I would however not add less then two at a time, so that if your current one does chase a bit he has two targets letting them each be chased less than if you had only added one.

Right now I'm at three yo-yos, and they do school a bit, but no where near as much as clowns do. Clowns are definitely too large for your current tank setup.

--Mia

 

[FisheyLisa]

From my limited experience, your cory's should do fine with adults. They like to school. I had baby emerald cories with adults, they were fine. Still are.

I have heard that loaches don't care what age other loaches are. They are schooling fish and in a school you have old and young. Don't know about species.

I guess you've firgured out that your 20g is too small for the loach.

lisa