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i have school of 6 tiger barbs. and i only have 2 clown loaches. i know the loaches are schooling fish but since they are known for schooling with tiger barbs will they be alright or do u think they will stress?

How big of a tank? It'd be in their best interest to add a few more loaches if you have the room.

its funny watching the tiger barbs follow the clowns. cause they arent quite as good of swimmers in the long plants. so they get lost very quickly.

its kinda wierd the opposite of what i thought would happen, happened.

the barbs mimick the loaches not the other way around. as i said they follow the loaches around. but they also start to bottom feed when the loaches do. its quite funny seeing all the barbs all of a sudden start picking at the bottom.

then when the loaches go back into the plants the barbs go back insync with the rasboras and black neons.

are the barbs known for mimicking?

If possible, add another CL, but make sure that you'll have space for them to grow.


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i like to keep my CL in groups of 3 myself, but again u still must have a huge tank for them, and maybe i missed it, h ow big is u tank size.

i was just asking my grandfather today if i should get another CL (i also have 2) and he told me no. he said as long as theyre happy you shouldnt get more because you never know what could go wrong. for example, the old loaches could pick on the new one or the other way around

That's the great thing about clown loaches, you can stick a 2" specimen in with a 10" specimen and they'll get along great