i was thinking of getting a 6-7 inch watermelon pleco and a leapard sailfin pleco and adding them together with my two 7 inch red tailed payara yellowtailed barracuda,jurapari,silver dollars and my six and a half long juruense catfish will they all get along or is this a bad idea?
watermelon with sailfin and others?
- Thread starter cudamaster13
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Personally I wouldn't, mainly because mose of your stock requires a meaty diet. And this is the opposite of what the panaque needs. A diet high in protein is extremely unhealthy for the watermelon. The sailfin should be fine depending on tank size. Just my $.02
would it being a L191 change anything or if the royal is smaller?the tank has a ton of alage in it also but would an smaller or a L191 work?
the juruense only stays in one spot in the middle of the tank under a skiny piece of mopani and he never moves there are many mopani and malaysion wood peices on the other sides of the tank as well as plants the juruense gets fed with a feeding prong as for the diet the payaras and barracuda eat massivore pellets and silversides wich they and the silverdollars never let touch the ground and i quickly remove anything they missed and the predators only get fed every other day the jurupari and silverdollars eat color and spirluna flakes and alage wafers if i do get one i plan on feeding him zuccini,cucumber,sweet potatoe and lettuce just like the baby royal i have in the other smaller tank but the juruense keeps to himself so if i keep the watermelon on the good green diet and moniter him and the juruense wich as i said never goes anywere would it possibly work?
Not to mention you'll end up with a royal who will ignore the algae in favor of the meaty foods you feed the other fish. Royals don't eat algae, either; they need close to a ton of driftwood which they chew and leave giant mulm messes everywhere. On a high protein diet, the royal will die pretty quick.
Also unless you are watching your tank 24/7, you cannot maintain that the juru 'never moves.' If he really never moves when the lights go out, you might have a dead fish. But from the sounds of it no matter what other pleco keepers tell you, you have this in mind and will put the royal in the tank regardless, and when it doesn't work out you will somehow be shocked. You have been warned.
This is a little more bluntly then I would have put it, but true none the less. Could it work possibly? Yes but it the long run it won't be healthy. I own 3 larger panaque species at the moment and they hate other bottom feeders. They chase my fire eel relentlessly if he invades their territory. But if you're deadset on it the have at it