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[Acgelok]

I hope you can answer this for me . I recently purchased 6 cl. loaches, 5 of
them are normal, but one sports an extra blk. band directly under the dorsal,
it does not however connect and is distinctly seperate. I have other cl.
loaches but all have the same 3 blk bands. this one has me puzled. I'am
somewhat new at this, about 4 years into the hobbie and have never heard of or
seen this pattern. I've been trying to get a picture but they'r still somewhat
skittish and I do not have a website. I might try posting a pic. on HP if I
ever get a shot that's suitable
Question is " have you ever seen or heard such a pattern on clown loaches"
Your comments on this would interest me. T.I.A. regards ART

[Victor Martinez]

Acgelok wrote:
> Question is " have you ever seen or heard such a pattern on clown loaches"

Question wasn't addressed to me, but I am a fan of all loaches and own 7
clowns. One of my clowns also has an unconnecting central band. I've
heard it's unusual, but nothing too special. :)
Folks over at loaches.com have a lot of information about these
critters, and a very helpful board.

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[NetMax]

"Victor Martinez" > wrote in message
...
> Acgelok wrote:
> > Question is " have you ever seen or heard such a pattern on clown
loaches"
>
> Question wasn't addressed to me, but I am a fan of all loaches and own
7
> clowns. One of my clowns also has an unconnecting central band. I've
> heard it's unusual, but nothing too special. :)
> Folks over at loaches.com have a lot of information about these
> critters, and a very helpful board.
>
> --
> Victor Martinez

Yup, exactly as Victor said, and loaches.com is an excellent site with
lots of links to other CL sites :o). On other fish, this marking variant
sometimes distinguishes where along the river they came from, though I
don't know if this holds true for CLs. Others here would be more
familiar than I.
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[Josh Mills]

In article >,
says...
> I hope you can answer this for me . I recently purchased 6 cl. loaches, 5 of
> them are normal, but one sports an extra blk. band directly under the dorsal,
> it does not however connect and is distinctly seperate. I have other cl.
> loaches but all have the same 3 blk bands. this one has me puzled. I'am
> somewhat new at this, about 4 years into the hobbie and have never heard of or
> seen this pattern. I've been trying to get a picture but they'r still somewhat
> skittish and I do not have a website. I might try posting a pic. on HP if I
> ever get a shot that's suitable
> Question is " have you ever seen or heard such a pattern on clown loaches"
> Your comments on this would interest me. T.I.A. regards ART
>

I just bought 4 on friday, and one of mine is the same. I've heard the
term saddleback used to describe this pattern. I've even seen pictures
of a double saddleback. I wish I had the links to the sites, but I
don't. But anyhow you gotta love those clown loaches, lot's of fun to
watch. Mine are finally getting a little less skittish and coming out so
I can see them. Right now I've got my new 4 in a quarantine tank for a
while before I add them to the 55 gallon with my other clown, some tiger
barbs and a pair of angels. I can't wait to see them all together, I
think the'll be real happy.

Josh

[Jim Anderson]

On Mon, 03 May 2004 01:51:52 GMT, Josh Mills had this to say...


> the 55 gallon with my other clown, some tiger
> barbs and a pair of angels.
>

Not a good choice/mix IMHO.
My first tank was a 55, wanted all the colorful fish. I had read that if
you had a dozen tiger barbs they would not bother their tank mates. So I
bought a dozen small ones and added them to my heavily planted 55 that
had Angels, lemon tetras, bleeding heart tetras, cardinal tetras.
After about 2 minutes of random swimming they lined up single file and
started swimming a high then low figure 8 pattern, 3 or 4 laps. Then at
the top end of the tank they grouped, all lined up shoulder to shoulder
and dove toward all the other fish they had rounded up in the middle of
the tank. They would key in on the one or two fish that broke away from
the group and just pound on them for about 5 or ten seconds, then just
like someone blew a whistle, they would break off the attack, line up
single file again, figure 8 again, attack. Took all afternoon to net
them.

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[Dinky]

"Jim Anderson" > wrote in message
et...
| On Mon, 03 May 2004 01:51:52 GMT, Josh Mills had this to say...

| Not a good choice/mix IMHO.
| My first tank was a 55, wanted all the colorful fish. I had read
that if
| you had a dozen tiger barbs they would not bother their tank mates.
So I

I've found that the most important rule in this "hobby" is YMMV. I
have a 40 gallon planted with about 30 fish, including but not
limited to, clown loaches, neons, a Pangasius cat and 7 tiger barbs.
This is, by far, my most tranquil tank. The barbs never bother
anyone.

billy

[luminos]

My 12 tiger barbs are more interested in each other than anything else!
They leave even small schooling fish alone.

They have gotten so that my approach means food: They do a great in-line
dance, head down, tail wiggles as I approach.


"Dinky" > wrote in message
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> "Jim Anderson" > wrote in message
> et...
> | On Mon, 03 May 2004 01:51:52 GMT, Josh Mills had this to say...
>
> | Not a good choice/mix IMHO.
> | My first tank was a 55, wanted all the colorful fish. I had read
> that if
> | you had a dozen tiger barbs they would not bother their tank mates.
> So I
>
> I've found that the most important rule in this "hobby" is YMMV. I
> have a 40 gallon planted with about 30 fish, including but not
> limited to, clown loaches, neons, a Pangasius cat and 7 tiger barbs.
> This is, by far, my most tranquil tank. The barbs never bother
> anyone.
>
> billy
>
>

[Victor Martinez]

NetMax wrote:
> lots of links to other CL sites :o). On other fish, this marking variant
> sometimes distinguishes where along the river they came from, though I
> don't know if this holds true for CLs. Others here would be more
> familiar than I.

I think the color of the fins (bright red vs more orangey) is what
determines a clown's origin.

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[Josh Mills]

In article >, fro2750
@frontiernet.my_finger.net says...
> On Mon, 03 May 2004 01:51:52 GMT, Josh Mills had this to say...
>
>
> > the 55 gallon with my other clown, some tiger
> > barbs and a pair of angels.
> >
>
> Not a good choice/mix IMHO.
> My first tank was a 55, wanted all the colorful fish. I had read that if
> you had a dozen tiger barbs they would not bother their tank mates. So I
> bought a dozen small ones and added them to my heavily planted 55 that
> had Angels, lemon tetras, bleeding heart tetras, cardinal tetras.
> After about 2 minutes of random swimming they lined up single file and
> started swimming a high then low figure 8 pattern, 3 or 4 laps. Then at
> the top end of the tank they grouped, all lined up shoulder to shoulder
> and dove toward all the other fish they had rounded up in the middle of
> the tank. They would key in on the one or two fish that broke away from
> the group and just pound on them for about 5 or ten seconds, then just
> like someone blew a whistle, they would break off the attack, line up
> single file again, figure 8 again, attack. Took all afternoon to net
> them.
>
>
Actually if anything the angels torment the barbs. Both of my angels
have PERFECT fins. They even spawned recently in this same tank,
although none of the eggs hatched they did keep the barbs from getting
anywhere near the eggs. I knew I was taking a risk with the mixture, and
I would have removed the barbs had it been needed. The barbs do fight
amongst themselves though quite a bit. I guess I got mellow barbs, and
or mean angels.

Josh

[Jim Anderson]

On Tue, 04 May 2004 00:03:28 GMT, Josh Mills had this to say...


> In article >, fro2750
> @frontiernet.my_finger.net says...
> > On Mon, 03 May 2004 01:51:52 GMT, Josh Mills had this to say...
> >
> >
> > > the 55 gallon with my other clown, some tiger
> > > barbs and a pair of angels.
> > >
> >
> > Not a good choice/mix IMHO.
> > My first tank was a 55, wanted all the colorful fish. I had read that if
> > you had a dozen tiger barbs they would not bother their tank mates. So I
> > bought a dozen small ones and added them to my heavily planted 55 that
> > had Angels, lemon tetras, bleeding heart tetras, cardinal tetras.
> > After about 2 minutes of random swimming they lined up single file and
> > started swimming a high then low figure 8 pattern, 3 or 4 laps. Then at
> > the top end of the tank they grouped, all lined up shoulder to shoulder
> > and dove toward all the other fish they had rounded up in the middle of
> > the tank. They would key in on the one or two fish that broke away from
> > the group and just pound on them for about 5 or ten seconds, then just
> > like someone blew a whistle, they would break off the attack, line up
> > single file again, figure 8 again, attack. Took all afternoon to net
> > them.
> >
> >
> Actually if anything the angels torment the barbs. Both of my angels
> have PERFECT fins. They even spawned recently in this same tank,
> although none of the eggs hatched they did keep the barbs from getting
> anywhere near the eggs. I knew I was taking a risk with the mixture, and
> I would have removed the barbs had it been needed. The barbs do fight
> amongst themselves though quite a bit. I guess I got mellow barbs, and
> or mean angels.
>
> Josh
>

That's great Josh.

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[Acgelok]

Thanks for all the replies. At this writing I havn't had time to check out
those websites yet but I will a.s.a.p. they're bookmarked . Thanks all, this is
definitely the right place to get info. I've recommanded it to my fellow fish
keepers often Regards ART