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Well, by the time the blod worms gets to the bottom, they are scattered cuz the other clown loaches fight for it, and it flys all around the tank.

I cant hand feed it cuz he wolnt come out if he sees people around (the tank used to be by a low traffic area)

hey guys..

i was watching him eat the worms yesterday, and he was throwing the gravel out of his gills... never knew they could do that.

allright, thanks guys, i guess he is eating then.

ANd i know what you mean by "hoover" this guy like sucks everything up, haha, heres a pic of him: http://image28.webshots.com/29/7/85/31/243778531wBkyIc_ph.jpg

my large clown loaches does the same thing. they will eat the bloodworms and some of the gravel they spit out or will go out of their gills.

My large clowns simply hoover up all bloodworms taking big mouthfuls of gravel and spitting it out through their gills,The bloodworm frenzy in my big tank is something to behold almost akin to a tank of ravenous piranhas.

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Yeah it was the first pics of him. See the top pic of the Albino Rainbow Shark and him. The shark was a lot bigger than he was. When I got him (the bottom pic) the Green Tiger Barb was bigger than he was.

This is a pic of his favorite home. And now he is bigger than the Albino Rainbow Shark who is about 7".
He comes and eat a full frozen blood worm out of our hands. While he is eating out of our fingers, we rub his tummy with our other fingers. He really enjoys it. If he comes up and your in a hurry and don't rub his belly, he will give you a bite. And he has a very big mouth and it hurts. Sometime he leaves marks. So I guess it pays to pay him some attention.

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Sorry no sand. This is my dads tank (i mostly take care of it now though) And he doesnt really like sand for FW tanks.

Also wouldnt want to take the chance of going through a mini cycle from the gravel being changed (the UGF probably does the most filtering (biological) in the tank.

lol, but thanks

EDIT* is that your 8" clown? He only looks to be around 5-6" in that pic (unless it is pretty old)

Last edited by victimizati0n at 08-Mar-2005 19:01

Another thought: to change your substrate from gravel to sand. I had mine in sand for months. I've only changed to gravel cause I'd like the look of the gravel, but the clownies I think preferred the sand.

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CA, i was thinking about that, but dont they float in the water?

Im the past 2 years i have been watching my clown loach, i have never seen him go more than halfway up the tank.

I fed him Hikari sinking pellets, and even those were too small for him, he had a hard time picking them up.

im not trying to be hard, and not take advice, it is just the fact that i know the personality of this clown.

Conical worm feeder might be the answer to your problem Victim ... apparently quite a few people here use them, and report satisfactory results when doing so.



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Hey guys, i have a problem...

I have no clue how to feed my clown loach blood worms.

The worms are too small for him to eat when they hit the gravel, and i have NEVER seen him swim up to get food, which he probably wolnt do.

When he tries to eat them, he just sucks up some gravel, and spits it back out.

Does anyone know what i can do?

I feed my big fella by hand. This is a pic when he was smaller. He is now about 8" big.

Also I have a problem feeding sinking pellets to my mollys. The gravel is bigger than the pellets, and when they sink it falls in between the gravel. So I put a glass plate onto the bottom of the tank. I then put the pellets onto this plate and the mollys go over to it and eat off it. (next I'll teach them how to use a knife and fork.])

If you get a bloke of frozen blood worms, and submerge it until it sinks, put it onto a plate. Your clownie might eat off it.

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your big clown loach may suck up the gravel with the bloodworms and only spits out the gravel while actually eatting the bloodworms. my larger clown loaches do this and so do my other larger fish as well.

the clown loach tries to eat them, he seems to love them, but he just cant eat them cuz he sucks up gravel.

The clown loach isnt really a picky eater. But he just hides all day, comes out for food, and hides more.

When we feed him, he steals some food, takes it to his hiding spot, and comes out again, and steals more.

victimizati0n
It does seem strange the the 9ins Clown Loach wont/will not eat the frozen Blood Worms. I mix up 5 frozen pieces in a cup of tank water three times a week. At the start the largest one feeds of the top then hints along the bottom with all the other fish.

Are you using any other foods at the same time?
Also do they get a good variety of food?
Does the CL concerned eat well or is it a picky eater?

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I tried some kind of shrimp, i think it was just full grown brine shrimp.

he had a better time eating those, but it was still hard.

It seems e kinda "sucks" the food up into his mouth when he picks up a pellet, or tries to eat the blood worms.

When I had the larger clown loaches in with some of our larger fish, I also included some of the frozen Myasis shrimp. They are much bigger than the brine shrimp and they loved it. Have you tried that?

That is what im using, frozen bloodworms.

What i do is this: I put them in a cup ( usually 2 cubes) and let them dissolve. I will then feed them to the fish. Also, they wolnt sink untill there is no ice left.

My small clown loaches have no problems eating the bloodworms, but the one im talking about just cant eat them. He/she smells them, then just tries to eat them, then just sucks up pieces of gravel, and spits them back out.

My clown loach is almost 9", he may be bigger than that. I havent measured him in probably 3 months.

If anyone has any tetra sinking pellets, look at them, they are pretty big, well he can fit a whole one in his mouth, my smaller 3" clown loaches, cant even pick those pellets up to move them

Like said above, the frozen blood worms are a perfect size for the clown loaches in my experience and better accepted by them as well. I wouldn't worry about it hitting the gravel because mine were always scavenging the plants/gravel after feeding time. Also, with the clown loaches I found that when I stuck to a schedule and gave some kind of sign that I was about to feed them (i.e. lightly splashing the top of the water) they were more likely to come out at actual feeding times. I hope you find this helpful. Good luck.