the tank i keep my FH's im growing out needs a pleco bad, would it be safe to add one to this tank? anything else that goes near this tank gets eaten in a heartbeat, but can a pleco survive in this tank and if so what size would it need to be? im guessing larger than the FH's. i dont want to add the pleco as a meal for these guys!
adding a pleco with fh's?????
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how bigs the tank? my freind had a pleco in an 85 with his FH. my FH wont allow plecos in with her. so i guess it depends
moving them from a 55 into a 75 today and wanted to add it when i did that, the 2 FH's try to kill each other, so i wasnt sure if adding a pleco would help, but that is the only tank that gets a brown coating on everything, its also the only tank without a pleco.
Plecos should't be bought to clean your tank algae for you. A magnet or a scrubber should be used.
Pleco's eat real food like romaine, fruit, cukes, zukes, peas, greens, and carnivorous plecs eat meaty foods. Don't starve a fish cause you don't want to clean your tank. Sorry if this comes off harsh but I am a huge Plecostomus lover! Try keeping the lights off a few days and feed the FH lees food. Also gravel vac the left over food out so algae has nothing to feed on.
Pleco's eat real food like romaine, fruit, cukes, zukes, peas, greens, and carnivorous plecs eat meaty foods. Don't starve a fish cause you don't want to clean your tank. Sorry if this comes off harsh but I am a huge Plecostomus lover! Try keeping the lights off a few days and feed the FH lees food. Also gravel vac the left over food out so algae has nothing to feed on.beantickler;2402105; said:Plecos should't be bought to clean your tank algae for you. A magnet or a scrubber should be used.
I thought you said fruit cakes.
I used to keep fancy plecos in with cichlids. Eventually the cichlids had to go; the flowerhorn wanted the tank to himself. Soon after, the FH targeted the plecos. In the end, I was able to keep one acanthicus pleco in with the FH for about a month. The FH realized he could not do bodily harm, so he targeted the dorsal and tail of the pleco. I rehomed the pleco before he was too badly beaten up. A magnet would be a safer "tankmate" than a pleco.
i have many plecos in my tanks, i like the look of them and do not kep them strictly for tank cleaning, they are fed wafers and get anything that is in the tank, if i add one and is doesnt work out, i can easily move him to one of the other tanks i just wanted to see if anyone had any experience keeping these two types of fish together,
Ill take that mean one;2403561; said:
thats what i am afraid of, and these guys are very aggressive, i am thinkin a pleco is not the best idea,