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I love loaches, but personally, am not a big fan of the oh so popular clown loach. I have 2 botia kubotai, 3 zebras that go around my tank in a pack (they are so cute because they are little bitty right now, about half an inch or so but still very feisty) and 2 dojo loaches. I love loaches and someday would like to get some horsehead loaches!

I had a weather loach that died a little bit ago it probably last 4 three years and I think it was a spine loach cause when i saw a spine loach it looked exactly like it when i saw i weather loach it was close but not the same.

Zippers, Zebras, Khulis, Dojos, Skunks(cream hora's), yoyos.

Koi

Empty chairs at empty tables, the room silent, forlorn.

I simply love clown loaches and I am planning to upgrade my tank soon to give them a better home. I have 9 of them.


The other loaches I keep are kuhlis and zebra loaches.

I got me an orange finned blue loach, but gave him back to the LFS in less than 12 hours. He was bullying my clowns around.

Well they don't usually respond to well to travel, but it also has a lot to do with the temperature. They require temperatures to be below 75 degrees to survive for more than a couple months. Most LFSs keep their tanks at tropical temperatures.

With the rough handling these fish go through, combined with the high temperatures and overcrowded tanks in the stores, it's not too surprising that so many of them die.

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

ohh..the hilstreams...why is that they die so easy?
went to a lfs and there in one of the tanks they had 6 or 8 hilstreams...but 3 of them was dead and other 2 was not looking that good.so i called for the owner..he came and took them out...i asked why they died..he just ignored me and went to the backroom!

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I know human beings and fish can co-exist peacefully.

I've had, throughout the years:
khulis
yoyos
clowns (in a 20 gallon )
angelicus
hillstreams (which didn't last very long)
skumks (removed promptly after shredding every fin in the tank)

I've had Yoyos and B. kubotai (have I spelled that right?). Both were nice, but, I suppose, not nice enough that I still have any loaches!

-Molly
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Two main reasons:

1. It just hides all day.

2. When it does come out, it chases my other fish (especially my corys]

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

why do you want to get rid of it?

I just have a 6" Botia modesta that I want to get rid of...

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

Seems like everybody has the clown loach in their tanks
what about the other loaches like...Mottled loach,Banana loach,Bengal loach,Burmese loach,Banded loach,Yoyo loach,Orange fin loach,Cream loach and Candy loach
These loaches are really nice looking...Anybody have some of these loaches?

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I know human beings and fish can co-exist peacefully.

I got 2 YoYo's and 2 peppered corys from my LFS for i think $3.00 each

I have yoyos and kuhlis and they are my favorite fish now. I have been looking for more yoyos for over a year and nobody had them. I was told by one shop that they hadn't seen any in years. Then this weekend I was at a shop and out of the blue they had like 40 of them! A little pricier at $8 (my others were only $3), but now that I have had yoyos I know they are more than worth. So I snatched up 2 more. They are so cute...it is hard to believe that my other ones were once that small. Now I need to find more kuhlis and black kuhlis. It seems they have become very scarce as well. Haven't seen any in a couple of years.

I don't really get why clown loaches are so popular. Sure they are cute, but how many people can really care for them when they get big. I for one do not enjoy having to give my fish away just because they got big. A friend of mine tried to convince me to take her clown loaches to put in my 29g when she moved. I knew that wouldn't work. Even her 75g would not have been big enough for them in a few years.

I dont have them anymore but I did have some dojo loachs a few years back. I liked them alot but they where hard to find half the time.

i have 4 yo-yo loaches. they definetely enjoy each other's company. during the day time they're not too active, but at night they really seem to fly around. they've pretty much taken over one piece of driftwood that i have, they're made little territories out of each nook and crevice on it, and they spend their time chasing each other in and around each one. great little fish, and they dont grow large either - 4inches or so max.

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Back in the saddle!

I have kuhlis, and YoYo loaches.

i like other loaches much better than clowns as well at the moment i've only got kuhlis, but i'm gonna get queen loaches when/if my LFS get some in. oh and i'm going to get hillstream loaches soon (not true loaches i know)

cfd

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Six Dwarfs (B. sidthimunki) in my tank. Great little critters.

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So here I am once more...

I have a few 5 grn zebra, 1 lrg yoyo, 1 lrg tiger, 3 weather and a redtail zebra. Alot of loaches, have interesting color paterns.