Can Oscars And Clown Loaches Stay Together

[4u29im3]

hi just wandering if clown loaches and oscars are compatible tank mates

 

[bitteraspects]

No
CL need very good water quality, and oscars are filthy nasty creatures.
Though the CL will probably be eaten before they are stricken with disease or killed by the disgusting oscars tank water.

 

[helterskelter]

Much the same as above sorry.

However if u have a massive filtration system and loads of pipe work and places to hide they may survive.
Clowns also have spines each side under the eye's. If an Oscar attacked and tried to eat them a small loach could easily lodge in it's throat and kill it!

 

[indigoj]

I beg to differ, with proper filtration and fish of a suitable size and big enough group of loaches then there should be no problems - of course a HUGE tank would be required though. I wouldn't mix oscars and young clown loaches though - the growth rates are very different.

 

[simonas]

I've had no problms with mine
I had to put my clowns in with my oscars and they;ve been together about 4 months, the clowns are about 4-5 inch the oscars 9 inch, they don;t come into any real contactwith each other and the loach as I;m sure you canimagine are bold as brass an dartaround stealing lots of the food intended for other fish

 

[indigoj]

.... killed by the disgusting oscars tank water.

That's actually quite offensive to oscar keepers. Oscars are messy but that doesn't mean oscar keepers have poor water quality!