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Just saw this guys sleeping and thought to shear some pics with you guys!



This guy ended up sleeping upside down..

and offcourse the other cl came excactly in front when i took the picture ..but you can see him upside down!!



one of the bigger cl's in one of the caves.





It still freaks me out to see them like that

Robby

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

Very beautiful CL's & very good pictures.
Well Done.

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Member of the Malta Aquarist Society - 1970.
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Clown Loaches aren't the only fishes to cause their owners some moments of panic with their idiosyncratic choices of sleeping posture. Red Tailed Black Sharks are well known for adopting wacky sleping postures too, with some individuals possessing what appears to be, from the aquarist's standpoint, a truly perverse love of causing the aquarist to miss heartbeats in the belief that the fish has not only died, but made the transition from life to death courtesy of some behavioural quirk that would, if replicated in a human being, result in a candidacy for a Darwin Award.

However, after the heart stopping moment, the fish, upon realising that breakfast is being served, wakes up and starts looking around for food, in some cases practically demanding to be fed, whilst looking at the aquarist as if to say "What's up with you? Seen a ghost or something? Come on I want my breakfast!"

Clown Loaches aren't normally known for quite that level of mischief, but it would not surprise me in the least to discover some specimens that exhibited similar traits. Robby, your Clown Loaches seem to be in training for just such frolics!

Mind you, the individual sleeping arrangements of some fishes are proof positive that the behaviours in the textbooks are but rough templates whose purpose is to provide a certain level of guidance. Quite a few of our fishes behave not so much as if they haven't read the books, but rather as if they have read the books and said to themselves afterwards "Heh heh, let's see what our owner makes of THIS ..." immediately prior to embarking upon some singular piece of behavioural oddity that seems prupose designed to mess with the aquarist's head!

I have a Panda Cory that sleeps in Java Moss - completely buried in the stuff. Frequently, this Panda Cory will sleep upside down, and perform a very good impersonation of a very dead fish. Until the moment I raise the hood, whereupon it will wake up in a flash, and start looking to stick its snout in the underwater pig trough along with the others.

If there is one thing you can absolutely rely upon your fishes doing, it's doing things that cause you to scratch your head - unless you're prepared for it!

Oh, and Robby, excellent photographs. Which should, at some point, be included in an article on the subject of fish idiosyncrasies!




Panda Catfish fan and keeper/breeder since Christmas 2002

those like buggers.. nice pics


Sue

my manager and i freaked out the first time we saw this ( i work at a "medium-sized" pet store chain).

instead of clowns it was yo-yo's. a man had bought all the danio tank-mates earlier that day, and we were in the store late for inventory. all four loaches were sleeping in different parts of the tank. really quite special to see.

good photos!

wow they look very plump and happy - cute