JeffinMS wrote:
"Altum" wrote in message
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Community fish like yours don't seem to mind occasional redecoration. You
might stress the loaches if you did something silly like moved their cave
every day.




Well I am having a Loach problem now. I did a 50% water change, cut some
plants and removed the plastic vegetation. Now I seem to be missing a Clown
Loach! Ususally they are all together but one is missing. He didnt get
sucked through the tube cause hes way too big for that, he didnt get buried
from me moving rock, I double checked. He isnt hiding in any of the shells.
Totally gone. He also isnt in with the vegetation I threw out, for one hes
so big I would have noticed and I took a look, not there. How the heck do
you lose a fish?!


Sadly I totally lost 2 Clown Loaches this way in the past...no way they
could have jumped and even after moving the tank there was never any
evidence of this....we even stripped down the filter hunting for
them....with no luck....

I'm pretty sure they got munched by their tankmates....however, on a
positive note they are absolute b*ggers for hiding...I rarely see one of
my latest batch of 3 in QT but he is in there for sure.....plus someone
posted a few months ago about suddenly finding a very large, fat Clown
Loach they thought had died months before...I've lost CLs for days on
end and they suddenly turn up as if nothing has happened...

The only way you will know for sure is with a torch under the tank and
stripping out every single nook and cranny in your tank that he might be
hiding in/under....

Good luck...and I hope it turns out the best for you....and get hunting....

Gill