Hi everyone.

I am still on the hunt for new fish for my new tank, my fantail looks really bored and lonely now. Anyway I am still desperate to get a few White Cloud Mountain Minnows and I was wondering whether they are compatibles with Dojo's (Weather Loaches) because I don't want to be watching my tank one day to find my loach darting out from inside my bogwood and eating 1 of my Minnows. Has anyone had any experiences with the two species and any advice would be great.

Cheers

Minnows will not make good tank mates all though some
people do have them in there tank just
to add some more movement.

If your consern is your fantail being lonely id get another goldfish.
How many gallons is your tank ?

I have dojos and white clouds and goldfish together. I mainly feed Hikari sinking pellets, which is fine for the dojos and goldfish, and then when the rest are distracted I add a pinch of Tetra tropical food for the minnows. They *all* love smashed peas, which they get a couple of times a week. And they all like goldfish flakes, cooked spinach, pinches of cooked egg, and other treats.

Dojos and whiteclouds are cool water fish--not truly tropical--but they can handle the 76 degrees I try to keep for fancy goldfish.

All 3 species thrive in the same wide ranges of pH and hardness. And the same levels of salinity.

And they get along so well together. But there are no other species I would add except maybe a violet goby (if I had room for a fish that got that big). Plecos scare me.

The only incompatibility that I know about is that most ich medicines have to be used at half strength for loaches.

To clarify, I have kept 3 small goldfish and 3 White clouds together in a 12 gallon Eclipse tank. I later added a box filter so I would have a cycled hospital filter when I needed one, but as the goldfish grew we wound up needing to keep that filter in the tank.

Now I have 1 big dojo, 2 baby dojos, 4 white clouds, and 5 tiny to medium fancy goldfish in 75 gallons with a trickle filter. I will add a few more white clouds to make a decent school for them, and then that tank is fully stocked.

When I had one tiny goldfish and 2 white clouds together, the goldfish tried to school with the white clouds. But as soon as another small goldfish was added, the first goldfish was interested only in his goldfish bud.

So, I disagree wholeheartedly with Black Oranda that white clouds are not good tank mates.

But I agree just as wholeheartedly that a lonely goldfish needs another goldfish. If you want dojos and white clouds for *you*, get them, but do that after you get a goldfish bud for your fantail. And keep in mind that dojos and white clouds need to have a few of their own species as company too.

Caroline in San Jose