My 3 clowns are in with 2 angels,12 platies,2 cories/ottos in 65g. They eat
frozen (thawed first)bloodworm,brineshrimp,tubeflex,krill,daphnia ,flake all
rotated. They adore interpret tablet food which I can break into small
pieces and put on the gravel. I find it's hard to get food past hungry
platies/angels. My clowns will swim up and get food as it arrives, but
appear to prefer eating lower down. I find adding food one side, high up and
my clowns know to come to the other and I add food lower down for them. It
took a while for me to get it right for them. There is a good loach site,
which recommends you feed clowns 3 times a day as they get bigger. It even
shows a tube being used to get food lower down for clowns.
"Shawn" wrote in message
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I bought 3 clown loaches about 9 months ago when I had a snail problem.
They did a number on them and now they've been eating the reguluar pellet
and flake food I feed my other fish (mainly tetras, platy's etc). I also
notice they like to chew to the algae wafers I throw in occasionally for my
plecos.

However, last night when I was doing my bi-weekly cleaning, I was looking
down from above in the tank while vacuuming with my water python and I
noticed one of the clown loaches was literally paper thin side to side.
There's no meat on his bones at all. The other 2 look fine.

Is it that they're not getting the proper nutrition after all from the
other stuff and it's just showing on one more than the others ? Or maybe
this one has a parasite or something.

Any ideas ?