300G Pleco Grow Out Tank

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Piranha
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This is 1 of my 5 pleco grow out tanks 32 X 32 X 72. It is my only glass tank which I go in case my large royals etc. start scratching any of my acrylic tanks. Sorry it's so dirty, but it's not one of my display tanks.

I hyper-feed it so the finicky small plecos can survive (L018, L177, L047 and L239) and grow from 2". There must be about 30 plecos in this tank. I normally buy 2 or 3 of each kind if they are small and throw them in after quarantine. Some I rarely see like L065, but most come out once and a while.

There are only 2 pieces of huge driftwood that manage to fill most of the tank. You can also see some of the dither fish (23X WB SD, ~ 40 CL, ~20 rainbows and some geos. It has a 100G sump with 2X 7" by 32" filter socks that get changed every 2 days at 1800gph. There is also a Ehiem 2260 going as backup and 2X Hydor 8's at 3200gph.

Pictured are my 12" L418, 11" L014, 5" L128, 5" L114 and 7" L190. The other plecos weren't out when I was taking pictures. I'll add more later.

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hahah i had a 55 gallon pleco tank with about 20 smaller wc plecos and I thought that was cool! great tank
 
There are only 3 plecos bigger than 10" in this tank (shown above + 12" L083). If I could get them out easily I'd put them in my tank for large plecos and loaches (6'L X 3'D X 2'H 270G). I just put in another 100# of driftwood in it so water is very brown right now and not good for pictures.
 
Love the loaches. Brown water/driftwood looks very natural IMO.
 
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