I HATE PLECO POOP!!!!!
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How big is your pleco?
I had a 12" and 18" common in my 300 and I can understand your feeling. It's worse when you have a fine white sand bottom. They make a mess for sure.
I had a 12" and 18" common in my 300 and I can understand your feeling. It's worse when you have a fine white sand bottom. They make a mess for sure.
Hello; I had the same feeling when I kept a common pleco. The long unsightly strings of fecal matter were all over the tank.
I put some red ramshorn snails in the tank. Pleco waste has a lot of undigested plant matter in it which still has food value. The snails would eat the remaining food material from the pleco waste. I then had a lot of snail waste but it was much smaller in size (and I believe volume) and no so unsightly.
There were two benefits from adding the snails. One was that the floating hornwort plants grew very well ( I could not keep rooted plants with the pleco). The other was that I had a lot of snails around. I used the extra snails as fresh live food for the fish in my other tanks.
I put some red ramshorn snails in the tank. Pleco waste has a lot of undigested plant matter in it which still has food value. The snails would eat the remaining food material from the pleco waste. I then had a lot of snail waste but it was much smaller in size (and I believe volume) and no so unsightly.
There were two benefits from adding the snails. One was that the floating hornwort plants grew very well ( I could not keep rooted plants with the pleco). The other was that I had a lot of snails around. I used the extra snails as fresh live food for the fish in my other tanks.
Pleco poop solution? Small power head just along the substrate. Your filters will clog faster of course, but that's what they are there to do.
Yeah the white sand makes it worse. I got a 10 inch highfin its the only one i have and dont want nooooo more. The sand sticks to it and makes it heavier so i have to get closer to the sand when vacuuming so i loose more sand. I dont have cheap sand either lol.. i have tried a power head towards the bottom it just moved sand around the poop went to a corner anf behind sone rocks which made vacuuming easier when its all in one spot.
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I have one of those plecos two randy lol
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