help and advice needed

[headbanger_jib]

ok 9i just got my first ornamemntal pleco other than the common plecos
i picked up a leopard frrog pleco
pics i will post later, as i am in a different city at the moment
and my brother gave me an update that this new guy has still not colore up and still has pale black pattern and is not the bright yellow i have seen on pics

he currently is with my african tang tank
the tank is a 55 g tank and has a few pieces of drift wood
this guy was picked up a week ago, and at the moment is quite accustomed to the tank and sometimes even comes and sits at the front of the tank

i have been feeding sinking chiclid pellets to it

now any other thing i have to do or i am missing, pray do tell me so that i can ammend

 

[Muske]

Do you buffer or add salts to your Tang set-up?

 

[headbanger_jib]

Do you buffer or add salts to your Tang set-up?

no i do not

 

[pufferdudeg5]

What kind of substrate are you using?

 

[Malawi-]

Should as buffers or use aragonite.

 

[headbanger_jib]

i use a lot of petrified rock for the rock work in the tank

 

[Malawi-]

Add some buffers for the water or put some aragonite in the filter..

 

[COL]

They are rather softwater fish, I would find another tank for them, if possible.

 

[ShadowStryder]

They are rather softwater fish, I would find another tank for them, if possible.

What he said, Their water requirements are different. The Africans require
a hard, high ph water while the pleco would prefer soft.
I would not use any kind of buffering agent or seperate them.

 

[headbanger_jib]

the pleco has to stay there only till i get my pleco tank
which will take a week or two
will he do fine there till then
and will also be getting a lemon spot pleco and a few bristle nose plecos
and may be a royal pleco
the tank will be a 55g tank and will have large quantities of driftwood and java moss *may be*