New life Spectrum pellet food is rich in vegetable,fruit,and was enjoyed by clown loaches I have cared for.
Still did not prevent them from uprooting any and all substrate rooted plant's in their search for food,snail's .
Floating pennywort was used to diffuse light and anubia attached to wood were the plant's I chose.
Fishes enjoy fairly good flow which I achieved using Koralia powerhead's,in addition to large filter with good GPH rating.
Their favorite food,hands down,,was chopped earthworm's or red worm's I caught from pesticide.herbicide free lawn, and grain elevator's that were lousy with the red worm's.
Maybe could grow some plant's to large size in another tank and try them once they have good root structure but I would be nervous about young plant's survival with a dozen loaches,given their natural inquisitive nature,rooting about.