Clown loach
Chromobotia macracanthus
Lives for decades and gets big. A lifetime commitment, not a snail fix.
What it needs
- Grows to
- 30 cm
- Smallest sensible tank
- 450 L, at least 150 cm long
- Temperature
- 25 to 30 °C
- pH
- 6 to 7.5
- Hardness
- 5 to 15 dGH
- Kept in
- groups of 5 or more
- Temperament
- peaceful
- Eats
- omnivore
- Swims
- near the bottom
- How hard
- easy
- Lives
- about 20 years
These are the figures the stocking advice is built on. Make a room and it will tell you whether clown loach fit the tank you have.