Today we brought home a new tropical fish, a Clown Loach that is roughly 8-9inches in length. She is the SUPER LOACH. She is the new queen of the tank. She’s also somewhat mesmerizing to watch, kind of like the “hypno-toad.”

We’ve added her to our loach tank with 14 smaller clowns roughly 2-5 inches in length and they seem very happy to have the giant among them. Nightly we observe a “loach jam” where most all the loaches in the tank choose to cram and stuff themselves around their new queen, regardless of where she chooses to stay the night. It’s really quite amusing to look at the tank with a flashlight after the lights are out and see loach heads and loach tails all sticking out from a single place.

I’ll try to get a picture of her posted eventually.