TheManichaean
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
(Warning: no question, story only)
I spent the last three weeks stressing about how my 3" black loach was constantly fighting with my pleco. I rearranged the whole tank to make things better--I bought a cave, moved rocks, moved driftwood, and moved plants. I figured that the loach, whom I haven't been able to ID, must simply be too aggressive, and I worried about one of them dying. Lately, things have been better since the loach retreats to his new territory, the plastic cave.
Then last weekend I bought two 1" clown loaches. When I came home a couple days ago, they were nowhere to be found. Where'd they go? The cave, of course. It's one big happy pile of fish hanging out together in this ridiculously small little cave. The loach apparently can't stand the pleco when they're within 3" of each other, but he's fine being shoulder to shoulder with the clowns. Strange, strange fish.
I spent the last three weeks stressing about how my 3" black loach was constantly fighting with my pleco. I rearranged the whole tank to make things better--I bought a cave, moved rocks, moved driftwood, and moved plants. I figured that the loach, whom I haven't been able to ID, must simply be too aggressive, and I worried about one of them dying. Lately, things have been better since the loach retreats to his new territory, the plastic cave.
Then last weekend I bought two 1" clown loaches. When I came home a couple days ago, they were nowhere to be found. Where'd they go? The cave, of course. It's one big happy pile of fish hanging out together in this ridiculously small little cave. The loach apparently can't stand the pleco when they're within 3" of each other, but he's fine being shoulder to shoulder with the clowns. Strange, strange fish.