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Hi,

I am quite new to this hobby and was wondewring if this was nomral behaviour.

I have 4 clown loaches, 1 RTBS, 6 mollies and 10 rummy nose tertras.

All is going well apart from a power cut last night. Bloody RCD tripped out. Anyway i am going to cut down feeding and keep an eye on the water every day.

Back to the subject...one of my clowns has taken to laying down on the bracket behind my fluval 3 filter. The weird thing is it always lays with the RTBS. Are they sleeping? Are they mates? Do clowns and RTBS get on?

I was worried at first that they were dead and moved them out but they keep going back there just the two of them.

Weird...but funny.

Comments would be appreciated.

Thanks

Paul

They could be buddies. Clowns and other Loaches do seem to find odd places to rest and sleep, including several poses that make them look dead.
Piling up on top of each other and crowding into caves is another funny thing they do.

I have not specifically heard of Clown Loaches and Sharks living so closely together, but if you see it, then it is so!

They are not mates in the breeding sense, but in the way that means friends.

My group of Botia kubotai and my Red-tail Shark (Epalzeorhynchos/Labeo frenatus) also get along this way. They share a cave under a hunk of wood and while the shark is head of the cave they all squeeze in there together; when swimming about the shark swims with the kubotai as if he thinks he is one