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Clown loaches and plants
Merrill wrote:
>I'm taking a wild guess on this one -- do you, perhaps, have a large
>Clown Loach? They can do a job on many aquatic plants -- punching
>holes in Amazon Sword leaves and munching on Rhizomes. If so, start
>feeding cucumber to your Clown Loach. They love it and so do many of
>the other fish that are not of the Pl*co family!
Interesting that you should post this Merrill. Just yesterday I observed
(for the first time) my clown loach attacking one of my Lobelia cardinalis
leaves. I had been wondering why some of the leaves looked chewed and some
had holes in them. I will add a little piece of cucumber and see what
happens. No one has ever said (that I've noticed) that Clown Loaches will
eat plants. I have heard they eat the flowers of Lobelia but not the
leaves.
Olga
in variably cloudy/sunny Vancouver