Any Pleco Fanatics out here?

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Once you get bitten by the Pleco bug, it's hard to stop obtaining as much as your tank and/or wallet allows.

I recently picked up a Gold Nugget from a local hobbyist. They're illegal to import to Hawaii along with many of the exotic plecos (retarded law). The dept of agriculture never enforced the law until recently and so every LFS has got nothing but bushynose, sailfins, and on occasion, royals.

 
it very hard to stop all i have ever had are exotic plecos lol right now i only have one though a royal who is the king of all pleco i have had (including the king tiger i had and the little medusa) lol they are a great fish and most are so docile i find it too hard not to like them
 
Any thoughts, experiences or advice about which plecos are good to have with other plecos AND/OR loaches & botias? I would like to have another type of bottom dweller with my royal but I know that sometimes a fight can break out. Hate those pesty nipped fins!
 
I might try a scarlet pleco if you can get your hands on one. I have a 14 incher in my tank, and a 12 inch spotted royal in my 210 gallon with my black aros, and they never seem to fight. I have a lot of bog log, and the royal spends more time on the glass, while the scarlet mostly huffs up food on the bottom. Ive kept quite a few plecos, always more than one to a tank, and ive never really had any serious problems. Just provide lots of hiding spots. Only problem I ever had with mixing bottom feeders was an albino marble horned pleco that liked to suck the slime coat of of my endlicheri bichir.
 
 
I would love to get more interesting plecos, but the prices are so high here in MN and I'm afraid to order offline...
 
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