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Clown is eating other fish

Posted By: AD <andydandy@arias.net>
Date: Saturday, 19 February 2000, at 4:33 p.m.

Hey there! I have a 3 inch clown loach. I have had him in a 20 gallon tank with 6 other fish. 2 zebras, 2 skirted tetras and 2 red eye tetras. The temp is at 80 degrees. He has lived solitary ( without any other clowns because they all died) for the past 4 months and has been doing exceptionally well considering hes the only loach. Ive noticed he was getting very fat, i figured it was the nice diet of shrimp pellets, flaked food, zuchini and blood worms hes been eating, but then just the other day i saw him chasing around one of the zebras ( they are small, about one inch), i thought they were playing, but to my dismay he caught the zebra and within 3 minutes time he ate him!! he took him into a corner and gobbled him up without any of the others even bothering him. I originally start