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Will oscars eat or kill loaches and bristle nose? 10 months 2 weeks ago #250509

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Titled self explanatory lol

Clown loaches from 3 -9inches
1 paki loach 8in

BN from 8cm to 12cm
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Re: Will oscars eat or kill loaches and bristle nose? 10 months 2 weeks ago #250551

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Then can kill them for sure, if they're O's with attitude.
The small fish you mentioned may be considered food, and that would be a waste , for the barbs must be of a remarkable age allready. :)
But with Pleco's i allways advice the safe size 8" or up.
So the bigguns will be OK.

Is your Oscar gentle?
Mine is so gentle, that even the smallest barb can be put in, theorethically.
That is, if you don't have a Gar in that same tank...



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Re: Will oscars eat or kill loaches and bristle nose? 10 months 2 weeks ago #250559

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You would need lot of hiding places and cover for them.

Some O will just ignor them
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Re: Will oscars eat or kill loaches and bristle nose? 10 months 2 weeks ago #250565

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i have BN's in my tank with my oscar but like ben said provide plenty of places for the bn to hide and they should be ok
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Re: Will oscars eat or kill loaches and bristle nose? 10 months 2 weeks ago #250566

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exactly, its hit and miss but you need to have a back up incase your O starts going mental eting everyone lol
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Re: Will oscars eat or kill loaches and bristle nose? 10 months 2 weeks ago #250582

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Yeah Os will either ignore or kill them them eventually. Depends on the aggresiveness of the oscar
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Re: Will oscars eat or kill loaches and bristle nose? 10 months 2 weeks ago #250615

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My BN's live with my Discus, so that's not a good barometer. I did have some BN's in with my Oscars when I had them and they did get eaten. It's always a risk I'm afraid, and to echo the ambiguous answers already given, it depends on your individual fish :unsure:
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Re: Will oscars eat or kill loaches and bristle nose? 10 months 2 weeks ago #250635

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It is all depending on your Oscars temperament and even that can change. For example I have 2 Oscars 1 have watched kill its tiger barb tankmates and attacks a 8" pleco that it has lived with all its life and my other Oscar has no interest in its gourami tankmate but as I know that can change at any minute. There is no guarantee with Oscars so its probably better to think that if it is in he tank its probably gonna die eventually.
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Re: Will oscars eat or kill loaches and bristle nose? 10 months 2 weeks ago #250690

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Okay thanks guys :)

My oscars I've only had approx 2weeks, there is just two on
Them in there tank and they get along great, they are about 15cm? Not full grown
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Re: Will oscars eat or kill loaches and bristle nose? 10 months 2 weeks ago #250752

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My Oscars lived with 6 Clown Loach for at least six months, the Loach had lots of hiding places that the Oscars couldn't get too and the Oscars seemed to ignore them any way. All seemed well until suddenly one day all the Loach disappeared!
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