Originally Posted by
Imperialdiscus
I have always kept Clown Loaches in my Discus tanks.
Yes, they are fast moving. They are voracious feeders. They get real large.
I've never had issues with skittish Discus and I'm somewhat dubious that just because loaches are fast moving that this alone is going to make large fish like a discus skittish. Mine seem to treat loaches like precocious teens and ignore them most of the time.
They do a great job of keeping the tank free of excess feeds.
it take a LONG time for them to grow ridiculously large. When they start getting big, I move them. I usually keep them in a tank up to 5-6 inches.