Clown loaches suddenly nowhere to be seen

On Jun 1, 7:16�am, Dick wrote:
On Thu, 31 May 2007 18:57:08 -0400, wrote:
In .com, on 05/10/07
* at 10:16 PM, said:

Thanks to all for the great advice. I'm please to say that in the week
since my posting, I've seen both of them out and about--not nearly as
much as they were before, but they're healthy and somewhat active. I've
read quite a lot online about loaches and have discovered that two really
isn't enough, so I plan on adding two more.

Not sure why they got so shy so suddenly. But I guess that's just the way
it goes with fish sometimes.

If there is room in your tank to add more fish, I'd add three clown
loaches. *They're happiest in small schools. *They're expensive, but they
live a long time if properly cared for.

Here's a good loach site: *loachesonline.com

Alan

I have 3 CL in a 29 and 9 in a 75 gallon tank. *I see the 3 much more
than the 9. *The 75 gallon has heavy bottom growth and they hide. *For
a couple of years I rarely saw the 75 CLs, then I moved a very big CL
from the 29 and since then I see more of them, mostly for the morning
feeding.

I have had my CLs for 4 years. *At one time I thought the Siamese
algae Eaters may have been a threat, but moving the Big Guy left 3 CLs
to 6 SAEs and yet the CLs swim about more without Big Guy.

In the morning, the 75 gallon tank is swarming with fish mostly
clustered where I put the food. *Nobody seems afraid and no signs of
attacks. *At the afternoon feeding the CLs seem to not think it worth
the effort to get food, while the rest of the community does.

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I stumbled on a little trick to get Clown Loaches to warm up to me and
in no time they were actually out and begging for attention, or food
just like the rest of the fish in the tank were.
I had never seen anything like it from a CL, and I've had several
throughout the yrs.
When I added Dwarf African Frogs to the tank that also housed CL's and
Angelfish I had to hand feed the Froggies....otherwise they would have
starved in that tank. CL's and Angel's are piggies.
I would feed the frogs with a medicine type dropper that had
bloodworms in it.
The Clowns quickly picked up on this (the angels had to be swooshes
away from the start of course). In no time the clowns were coming up
to the dropper as soon as it hit the water. In no time they weren't
shy a bit and were and about all the time.
They only acted like shy clowns when we had people over, or my
daughter had a bunch of kids over.
Who wouldn't want to hide with a bunch of kids running around, lol.
I've tamed several different Clowns this way and in all cases none
acted shy anymore.