common pleco size

[ryanj612]

Some can grow at an inch per month in ideal conditons, so nothing at all unusual about that growth.

One of the problems is that "Common" plecos are actually several different species. Some certainly do grow to 2ft long, others look almost identical but max out at only 12".

But as for tank size, I would try for a tank 4X the plecos length, and at least the same depth as the fish is long. So if your tank is 36" long, you want the pleco out before it get to over 8"

Yours hasn't been mistreated yet, but it needs a bigger home or you are going to start stunting it's growth, and the waste it produces will start affecting your other fish. If you could maintian the water quality it would just keep growing in spite of the tank size, untill it couldn't physically turn around anyway.

Ian

i did not know the part about there being multiple species of common plecos. thanks. i am hopeing that i can get him sold before his waste starts killing my other fish. all the fish have been doing great since i got them.

i do have one thing that i am confused about. a few days ago i started seeing baby snails in my tank and now in 3 days the population has gone from about 12 to 25+. does anyone know how snails are born, eggs or what, or how i could have gotten a snail population going in the tank now and i havent added fish for the past few weeks. soon i might need to start giving the snails away, when they get larger, to my friends in the area with tanks.