I have cherries in the 180 with botia striata. I suspected they would eat them, but none yet.
The amano's are tougher, but the SAE's ate all the CRS in another tank, left these alone and amano's.
Not a good combo IMO. Unless they have plenty of thick plants to hide in and lots of good place for the loaches to hide and they are well fed.
Regards,
Tom barr