Love them big clown loaches, there really nice buddy, might need a bigger tank for that jar in the future, they get big, fast lol
Jardini and his tankmates
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All looking very nice , good job he'll be happy in there for quite a while 
Thanks I went the minimal decor route to maximize swimming space... He seems a little shy now but I figure that will pass... He also started eating less since I moved him. The water is fine and his tankmates are eating well ...I guess it's just cause the move
Yeah this is normal he'll soon be eating again , keep testing your water for any unwanted spikes as long as your waters fine he'll settle in no time
Nice! do you really need that driftwood there? Your Aro need lots of space to swim and there is a possibility of getting hurt, pls remove it if you can. Just a suggestion.
do you really need that driftwood there? Your Aro need lots of space to swim and there is a possibility of getting hurt, pls remove it if you can. Just a suggestion.
update: I have made one of the biggest mistakes in fish keeping. I introduced a clown loach to the pack with out quarantine. Because it "looked fine" and I did not have the quarantine tank setup. I take it down when not in use or when I don't plan on buying anything soon to save space. An impulse buy clown loach cost me my jardini and over half my clown loach pack it brought ich, and gill flukes, which i verified by my microscope. I know you are not suppose to use meds with loaches and I had done the heat/salt method before and it worked , but I could not stand to see them this way so I brought some super ich plus thinking I could kill the ich faster and then I could focus on the flukes with praizpro. boy was that a bad move it was fine at first but i up the dosage a little and it started killing clowns fast. So i did a huge water change and after that my jar just started going down hill faster he was swimming in a very erratic way. I woke up to find him dead. I killed 4 prized fish from a rookie mistake I knew better than to do. Lesson: ALL WAYS QUARANTINE NEW FISH,AND DON'T USE MEDS ON CLOWN LOACHES.
Sorry to hear. Lots of posts going on with loaches and ICH lately. Definitely something to be aware of for those loach owners.
+1 this like the third one I've read in the last 10mi Utes if being on the forum...
To the op, sorry to heard that, we all make mistakes, you just worried a little to much maybe... Or wanted to rush things. If there's one thing this hobby taught me its patience for sure. Rush something and you can risk their lives.
