I will toss in my 2 pennies in agreement with the others. Give the
fish a few days to become accustomed to the tank before you worry
about them behaviorally. Also, since clowns eventually reach a foot
long or more, your 20 gal tank is no more than a temporary home, and
with the other fish in that tank, it's already pretty overstocked in
my opinion. Test your water frequently and watch for trouble.

billy

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So I put these Clown Loaches in the tank 2 days ago, 3 of them, to
eat the
snails. I was told per my previous posts to use three because they
like the
company of other Loaches and that they would eat the snails. Per
the
Petsmart instructions I am feeding them dried shrimp. So far they
dont seem
to be very active, they found tier holes inside of a few different
pieces of
tank decoration (Shells) and they pretty much stay there doing
nothing. They
definitly arent eating the snails and they just lay around doing
nothing and
dont interact at all.

I have a 20 gallon tank with 18 fish (8 of them are Neon Tetras),
Gouramis,
3 Molly's, the Clown Loaches and others. The tanks strip readings
are all in
the normal range and the other fish are VERY active. Tank water
temp is 81
degrees F.