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For a while now I have been hearing these Clicking noises coming from my 55 gallon tank. I keep checking the mechanical stuff filter power head and the like. but I never realized what it was. Then two days ago I hung a slice of Cucumber in the middle of the tank, and within a minute I was hearing the clicks again.

Turns out whenever the Loaches take a bite they click, One was there and after the clicking started the other 3 showed up. I'm thinking the clicking is them saying Food is here come on over.

In every thing I have read, nothing mentioned the noises. So I was surprised, and wanted to share this.



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Yeah, they surprised me the first time they did it. I mean, I was probably 20 feet away and I kept hearing this clicking sound!

If you read about it online, there are some websites that state that loaches do it when they're frightened, and other websites swear that they only do it when content. So, in other words, we know jack about why they do it.

With mine, though, I always took it to mean that they were happy, because they would all school together and cruise the tank.

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Mine do it when there is food to share. If there isn't they stay quiet. Guess they don't want the others to know they have food. Maybe they have a different pitch or something for food and scared?

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Oh Yeah, all my loaches do this too, I have Yoyos, Queens, and Angelicus botias, and they all make clicking noises.
I have also noticed they do it during feeding and the others come flyin out.
Its very cool!


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The bigger they get the louder it gets there does not seem to be any particular time this is done either.

To give you an idea how loud it can be I have a 10yld cat which does not like sudden loud noises yesterday she was laying on the light then all of a sudden a loud click and she jumped of the light.

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my clown loaches make clicking sounds whenever they are eating and whenever they are exited but they have white spot/ick at the moment

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My Clown loaches make clicking noises whenever they I give them mini krill to eat. I used to have Yo Yos and they made them too. I have a question about clown loaches though, I just recently got them, like maybe 2 weeks ago.

How big is their max size and how long (months and/or years) to get full size?

How much would a small clown loach grow in 3 years?

In the wild they can get huge 12ins +++
In a good sized tank possibly 10ins but could get a bit bigger. I did have three 7+ins but lost two due to an introduced water supply problem. The largest one now would be 8-9ins. At an early age they seem to put on growth spurts about every 6-12 months then they seem to slow down to 1cm per year or even less than that.

Here is a recent photo of one of the large ones.

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That little ram is about 4-5cm to give you an idea how big that CL is

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Thanks. That is the biggest clown loach I have seen to date. Currently I have some in my 20 gallon. I know they will outgrow it, and I will bring them back to the LFS if I don't have a bigger tank by the time they are bigger. Think I might be ok for 3 years or no for my small clown loaches?

Keith, what is that little fish on the bottom right of your picture? It looks like some kind of small cichlid to me, but I could be way off.

Joe Potato

Joe I think it is a Bolivian Ram, I have a pair of them.

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Oh, yeah. It was the colors that threw me, but now I can see it.

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thats a huge clown loach. one of my clown loaches just died from ich

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One of my LFS would probably sell a clown loach that big for $100. Jeez, how much time (years and months) did it take for that one to get that big or did you buy him/her big?

I have had the CL for over 18 years now and he would have been about 2-3 ins when I bought them

WS That is the main reason why I store all my water in that way I cannot introduce it into the tank via the water change.

I have seen smaller and they are asking A$100++

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Yea my CL's now have Ick as well, so they have stopped talking too. I currently have 4 and the biggest one is about 2.5 inches long.

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I have 6 zebra loaches, Botia striata. Do they click, i havent heard them do it, there all about 1.5inches in lenght. With a little orange mouth

all of my clown loaches are now dead well they died about 2 weeks ago their skin was peeling off from the chemicals i was puting in there to try to save my prized blue acara but it didn't make it either.

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check this out.
http://forums.loaches.com/viewtopic.php?t=2115&
this is a big clown loach

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