Clown Loachs In A Planted Tank

[cheesy feet]

My amazon swords have hundreds of little holes in them from the clowns thinking there were snails on the plants when it was the light reflecting of.

 

[Tessla]

I've never had trouble with loaches eating plants though they do like to dig them up a lot while rooting around on the bottom. I'd keep an eye out for a smaller botia loach: zebras, zippers and dwarf chain loaches all have the same personality as the clowns but are quite a bit smaller, that way you could keep a larger group. The more the merrier when it comes to loaches, I wouldn't keep fewer than three of a single species.

 

[Canada_Andy]

Ok,
So I took the plunge and bought 4 clown loaches for my tank, they are floating in the bag right now. I am going to see how they do. As far as out growing the tank goes, my uncle has a 90 gallon tank, so he will gladly take them once they out grow my tank. If, unfortunatly they do start to munch on the plants, my LFS has a very flexible return/trade in policy which I can take advantage of.

Wish me luck