My Clown Loaches are in love...

ejk0799

ejk0799

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With my White Line Pim!!! I simply can not get over this. It's quite amusing to watch. I know how loaches love to loach pile and are very social with one another but they have well and truly adopted the Pim as one of their own. The strangest part is that Mr. Pim is quite the grump. He will shoo everyone else away from "his" territory, yet the loaches come in and you will see one alone laying on it's side snuggled up to him. Or you will go by and see 3 of them loach piling him... one on his side, another resting his nose on his head and yet a 3rd practically laying on his back. If he moves over they will all get up and reposition themselves so they're touching him again. We have 5 loaches in total but the most I've seen with him at one time is 4. Have any of you ever seen this behavior before? Have your loaches adopted another fish??? Odd, but amusing nonetheless.
 
The pim will give in. Who can resist the love of loach?
 
I've seen this before in my tank. My pack of five loaches love my plecos. They loachpile, they snuggle, they sleep on them. The biggest common pleco in the tank seems to feel the same way about the loaches. I suppose because they've been all over him for so long, he considers them a part of his school.

When my arrowana first moved from his 30 gal grow up tank to his 125 grow out tank, he took an interest in loaches. Specificly, he made predator movements towards the smallest clown loach. The littlest loach ran home to poppa in terror. Poppa, in this case, being my 18 inch gibby pleco. I was getting a bit upset because I did'nt want my arrow to eat my loaches, and considered the littlest loach to be the only one at risk. Poppa pleco blinked at the littlest loach, then turned his back on him. Arrow swooped, littlest loach froze in panic, and poppa pleco used his tail to swat arrow so hard, he hit the lid of the tank. I was amazed. The arrowana was stunned, but other than some scuff marks, undamaged. This happened three times before the pleco broke the arrow's attack habits. Now the loaches play in safety, and loachpile all the plecos, and the arrowana sticks to guppies and freeze dried shrimp and pellets.

The arrowana seems mentally damaged by this. He's joined the pleco school, and swims with them, eats with them, and curls around them when they do tail stands at the surface. The loaches don't trust arrow, but they all hang with the plecos at the bottom. Especially the littlest loach.
 
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