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Does anyone here have any of these loaches. I have recently acquired 3 and they appeared to be very outgoing in the lfs and also when I got them home in the QT tank but since they have been relocated into the planted tank they have disappeared. I would like to know if they are always this reclusive or just adjusting to the new tank and will come out again when they feel comfortable.

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I have one s.pulchra and the only time I see it is when I feed something special like worms!

I have also had the same behaviour with all the Sinobotia pulchra I have had. I think most of the Sinobotias tend to hide most of the time.

During quarantine my 1st S.pulchra appeared night active, and sleeping during the day. The further 3 juveniles ones also swam very active at night, so most pic's are with "focus-guessed". Once, one youngster took getting flashed as a game and knew at which plantleaf I was waiting with prefocused camera, we were playing catch me at the plant. She (he?) was very inventive of movements to take turns on the last moment, but left me some opportiunity to take pic's, so I don't loose interest in the game ... that was my serious impression, they need respectful entertainment , I know, I caught that one special loach-virus (yes, I am the one turning the camera around showing the pic's to them right after, so they get the idea what I am doing, ... kind of... but the look very interested, either way, they seem to enjoy the attention they get).

Now in the community tank they have not enough quietness to sleep during the day. Unless they hide in their holes, and the do love/need their nests.
Behaviour wise mine are more "clowns" than our actual clowns.
The younger ones, in the meantime, pose looking out of holes for pic's and are doing good eyecontact but are more shy than other loaches. They would not come to handfeeding, while many other loaches do (clowns took 5 years to start eating from surface, the clowns I had during my youth were the first ones at the surface, sucking their food in with smacking (clicking) noise).