Algae Sucker with Breeding Convicts

[MRE]

I have a 29 gallon tank with a breeding pair of convicts and two other adult convicts. I wanted to see if there was any type of pleco or algae sucker that I could add that would have a decent chance of surviving. I added a couple of small chinese algae suckers before I introduced the male and while I still had a blue crayfish and neither one of them made it. The lobster is no longer with us and now that I have the male they obviously get aggressive when the fry hatch. After a couple of days I usually take the fry and feed them to the Africans in my other tank to keep the parents from killing the other two convicts. Is there anything I could add to keep the tank clean that will survive? Thanks.

 

[Gruff Master]

Plecos will eat the eggs during the night. Many times aggressive parents will bite the eyes out of plecos to protect their fry. Trust me I've seen it. But since you use the fry as food any way you may not care.

 

[MRE]

I don't care if the eggs get eaten because I don't want to end up with 50 convicts with nothing to do with them. I do care if the pleco's eyes get bitten out.

 

[Sab_Fan]

29G is on the small side, but you could do a bushynose pleco . . . bulldog/rubber plecos are smaller, so they might be a better choice . . . I keep both with breeding carpintis and convicts, never had a problem . . .

 

[rasa92re]

Mating convicts are ruthless. I'm the optimistic type but with that amount of tank space I doubt anything especially a docile plec would survive.