I spent over an hour yesterday watching the fish. They all look healthy to me so I've decided not to dose praziquantel. I can't risk causing any harm to the gravid female loach who is even more gravid now...I don't know if she'll expel the eggs or absorb them...I don't think I've ever seen any of my clown loaches gravid like that before...The other large clown loach is almost the same size but not one bit gravid...
I had some fun watching the tiny rasboras yesterday. They were stealing 2mm pellets, although I had just fed them smaller ones prior, and were simply chewing them down with mouths wide open while doing so...It was really funny....So no fear for them not getting to food
They're a really hungry bunch and beg for food when they see me, the lot coming up to the front of the tank. I suppose they're brave now being in big numbers
They also, like every other fish I first added to the tank, swim around the perimeter in circles, just can't have enough of it but know exactly in which "corner" the food comes
Today I tried picking up the ugly plant pots that were knocked sideways by the fish months ago, and a bunch of kuhli loaches shoots out, the lot of them inside living in tangled roots of the struggling chopped down crypts
I put them back down again,Who cares it looks ugly
Let them have a little house for themselves to call home....
After lights out, the clowns like "sleeping" around at the front. I see them every evening. There's a coconut cave and a hollow artificial cave next to each other and it seems the proximity of the two caves makes them feel secure....so I left them be. It's the clowns that dragged the coconut cave over there.....
Here is a bad picture of 3 of the clown loaches resting happily on their sides.