Clown Loach with an attitude!

The first clown I purchased is about 2 inches long and the new one is
around an inch long. Something happened while my back was turned one

Not sure if anyone would believe, but I'd say it's a size difference... We
see it in cichlids, the same breed but in two different sizes will result in
a dominance war or sorts....the larger will beat up on the smaller ones to
bully and establish their dominance, leaving the rest to either follow or
get beat up more...

My advice would be to get more of similar size, closer to the first
purchased clown.... and be careful about getting such dramatically
differering sized clown loaches.

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On Fri, 2 Apr 2004 09:19:28 -0500, "RedForeman ©®"
wrote:

The first clown I purchased is about 2 inches long and the new one is
around an inch long. Something happened while my back was turned one

Not sure if anyone would believe, but I'd say it's a size difference... We
see it in cichlids, the same breed but in two different sizes will result in
a dominance war or sorts....the larger will beat up on the smaller ones to
bully and establish their dominance, leaving the rest to either follow or
get beat up more...

My advice would be to get more of similar size, closer to the first
purchased clown.... and be careful about getting such dramatically
differering sized clown loaches.

Red, I think getting additional CLs would be a gamble. I get all my
fish through the internet, so all are gambles. I have 4 tanks with
CLs. One 10 has two, another has one, my 29 gallon has 3 and the 75
gallon has 7. I have had very little chasing and only one time that
looked serious. That one only lasted a few hours. The 75 gallon CLs
early on were very chummy, now, 10 months later, they are seldom close
to each other. Each seems to live in its own space. I miss the
chummy get togethers. The 3 in the 29 gallon stay closer together,
but never do the stuff the others did. The 2 in the 10 gallon do stay
together more, but no more than the 3. The loner in the 10 gallon
tank seems happy to swim with the 6 mollies. In my tanks, the mollies
stay together more than any of the Clowns.

I was just watching 3 in my 75 swim across the front together,
suddenly they broke off and went 3 different directions.

I hope that the size of these fish doesn't ever get beyond 6 inches.
Three inches is just fine. They haven't grown noticeably in the last
3 months.