ATKINSON

My tank has finished cycling and I have just added 2 clown loaches and yesterday I added 6 glowlight tetras. I have found some grey,white algae or something like that on my peice of driftwood. My question is what is it and is it safe for my clown loaches??

MarkWVU02

It's either a fungus or an algae. I had the same thing in my tank and my clowns were fine. The white stuff should clear up on it's own as long as you keep up with water changes and such

ATKINSON

Thanks, by the way what do you feed yours?

MarkWVU02

I have hikari micro pellets that I feed all my fish. They do a great job eating the leftovers that sink down to the bottom. I also have sinking tablets (aqueon bottom feeder) that I drop in every few days to supplement.

ATKINSON

Cool, thanks. I will try that. Atm they are playing a very energetic game of catch around the tank.. LOL

Butterfly

Yep the clowns will be fine Mine like thawed frozen blood worms, shrimp pellets, flakes even fresh veggies.
Omega One makes floating veggie pellets and color pellets and they play keep away with the other fish. They look like their playing ball with them
The occasional earthworm is also appreciated
Carol

ATKINSON

Thanks Butterfly, I will experiment abit until I find what they prefer, at the moment they are eating sinking Hikari pellets.

ATKINSON

I have 2 clowns in a 75gal. I just watched a video of like 13 clowns playing around and though I want more. I know that they grow big but is it possible to get 1 more making that 3 clowns. I also have a 100Gal tank that can be used in the future. What do you guys think?

MissMTS

I think that you could probably house 3-4 of them long tern in a 100 gallon. They grow very slowly though, so you could start out with a larger group of smaller ones, and then start selling them off and re-homing them as they grow. Larger clown loaches are EXPENSIVE, so you could probably make some money back as well

fishchick

need some loaches for MTS ! they are all over the place in my tank in my 75 gall freshwater tank ! have to pick them out nightly ! couldn't find no romanine lettuce !

Butterfly

Loaches grow fastest the first year you have them after that they are very slow growers. They need lots and lots of room to swim and water quality is a major issue for them. One more shouldn't be a problem but get that 100g tank cleaned out and ready, they get ready for it faster than you think Wanna see some eye candy ? http://www.loaches.com/species-index...a-macracanthus
Carol

ATKINSON

I was looking at that website 5 minutes befrore I wrote this thread

ATKINSON

Yay, got a third clown loach!! and 6 glowlight tetras.

Butterfly

yeah it's a cool and accurate website for loaches,
Congrats on the new one
Carol

ATKINSON

I have always thought that Clown Loaches are hard to keep alive but mine are swimming around like real clowns...excuse the pun. I also named mine: Biggest: Bruno, Shy one: Murphy, New one: Jo Jo. Haha, real stupid names I know... Will try get pics soon

Butterfly

With the correct care clowns are extremely easy and yes they really are "clowns" . Don't worry about the names LOL my first ones were names Boss Hogg(he was sooo fat, turns out was prob a female) and the other one was named something that can't be printed here Unfortunately when we moved they didn't survive the move. I had had them for four years. I think there are pics in my album.
In april a friend gifted me with more loaches and I love them so. sorry for rambling.
Carol

ATKINSON

Thats cool, every one makes up weird names for fish!! Not just me.

kloseo

cool hope you enjoy the clown loaches they really are full of personality, talk about silly names mine are tigger, tiger and liger