Loaches Online Forum

I find that as long as you are not working with wild caught electric yellows, they are adoptable to water conditions. I just wouldn't use peat with them. Otherwise, Yellow labs are fairly mild and given enough room and enough hiding spaces for all, that is workable with a robust species like clowns ...

If you have the usual ca/sa cichlids, 75 gallon is already a little too small; for Africans, I know it's heresy around here but as long as you stay away from the truly pschos, some semi aggressive/aggressive loaches should be okay; skunks for instance. I have a school of 11 clowns and 3 red tail loa...

I currently have 3 blue botia in my 300 gallon tank. They are about 2 inches long. I will add probably six more since they seem to pick on each other a little. Their tank mates are African cichlids from Lake Malawi. I know the combination seems to be the third rail of loach keeping around here but t...