Clown loaches don't come out

I had five loaches for about 2 weeks, tiny babies bout inch big + . I had hollowed out driftwood, and a rock cave and another cave, and yet i always saw them out and about. They like to chomp on my plants, i would replant and replant and next day plants would be floating again. At first they were shy like for two days they just wedged themselves anywhere and never came out, but after they swam everywhere. Give em time, and happy and they should come out.
 
I'm happy to announce that I have had those clown loaches for two months by now and everyone is well and happy and they are always out and about! Their schedule seems to be different from what people tell here. They are supposed to come out when the lights go out, but mine are out all day. About 6 pm they go hiding and I don't see them at night anymore, in spite of the fact that light are out.
They were reluctant to eat the first 2 weeks but now they are greedy and fight for food. Even come to surface to catch flakes.
And I am happy to see this :)
 
Every clown loach I have had stopped being nocturnal in less than a month. The one I have now is NEVER out at night. In fact, I went home this weekend and I thought maybe he was killed because I couldn't find him at night. Then low and behold, the next morning when I turned the lights on he came right out.

Mine also gooes to the very top to get flakes as well. Just like the other fish.
 
Outstanding, Ave. Just shows you how all fishes do not conform to some script or profile.
 
Ave said:
I brought 7 clown loaches into my tank 3 days ago. Until then there were only 15 tiger barbs. Loaches were getting along with the barbs wery well.
Last night we changed ca 20% of water. GH and PH remained the same. In the morning I saw 6 loaches swimming, during the day they kept disappearing. Now I turned off the lights but they wouldn't come out at all any more...Is this some sort of normal loach behaviour or should I do something?
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Buy some plant weight for fish tanks, add some cucumber and they should all surround it and go crazy for it.

The tiger barbs will most probably ignore it but it "should" draw your loaches out, but give it time, maybe go and pop back and slowly approach the tank
 
Mine are out day an night, if they are out when i walk by or up to the tank , they wait for me to see what i'm doing, if the hood opens they are lookingan will come to the top to feed. But this is a real trip , when i put in algae tabs , i get my 2 corys 2 clowns an the brochis, eating on the tablet together, But the weird part of this is , my Neon tetras an Cardinals will go in the middle of that an nip at the tablet too. It's a trip to see that many fish taking turns at nipping a tablet. The fire red Gouromis are now noticing this , an i am sure they will follow soon.
 
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