Clown Loaches and Botia Dario?

[mickthefish]

here you are Keith, earlier on the darios were having a set to, the larger one is over 4 inches body size.
but if you notice no other botia was involved, so when you do get hold of some darios this is what you can expect every now and again.


mick

[BotiaMaximus]

Thanks so much Mick,

That was great! I'm guessing that was the Dario I could hear clicking in the video??

They do like to go at it, but no worse than my clowns with their liplocks.

Now I want them even more! My Clowns and Striata are doing great and no problems between them in the 75 gallon, and in the pup tank my tiny Clowns and mini Yo-Yos are doing fine as well - the Yo-Yo's are crazy little buggers zipping around all over the place but it doesn't seem to bother the Clowns a bit.

The Dario seem to be a little tough to come by over here, at least in my area.

Not sure what you Brits are up to but you seem to have cornered the market when it comes to Loaches - for now

Are those Hillies in the background at the start of your vid?? If so, is there a temperature where they both can be happy? I love those Hillies too, but I think you guys got all of them as well

[mickthefish]

weve always had a few good shops that try to get the fish we want, Emmas and Neils go out on a limb to get those extra specials that we could only dream of once.
i hope you have a few of these shops, Franks comes to mind i've looked at the fish he has in and it's pretty damn good, we just get the latest finds in the wild.

mick
glad you liked the vid mate.

[starsplitter7]

I have 4" dario with 4" Yoyos and Clowns and they do well together. In my growout tank I have Dario, yoyo, Histies, and striata, and they are all fine and getting ready to join the big guys.

[piggy4]

Me and Mick have had numerous coversations about loach compatibility and have never really had problems concerning B.dario or indeed any of the Indian group , we both keep mixed groups together