I Want To Get Back To Plecos
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What kind of plecos are you talking about? The fancy ones I know can be a little hard to keep. The common pleco on the other hand is almost impossible to kill IME
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Research the species, provide an appropriate sized tank with the right kind of decor and tankmates, the right sort of water, and feed them the right kind of food. Any fish is easy to keep if you know how to provide the environment they need.
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and buy good fish from a good source. I've found more expensive "fancy" plecs have a tendency to sit around in some LFS for a heck of a long time, in tiny tanks, often not being fed ideally. If they've been kept like that there's a good chance they'll be stunted and their health could be compromised. Sometimes no matter what you do they won't recover.
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and buy good fish from a good source. I've found more expensive "fancy" plecs have a tendency to sit around in some LFS for a heck of a long time, in tiny tanks, often not being fed ideally. If they've been kept like that there's a good chance they'll be stunted and their health could be compromised. Sometimes no matter what you do they won't recover.
How were you killing them? Were they kept with aggressive fish that picked on them?
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I agree with the type of pleco's. Some can be harder to keep. I would recommend starting off with a common pleco, maybe a bristle-nose. Then maybe move on to the sailfin pleco. It is incredibly hard to kill a common pleco. I bought my 16 inch common pleco from a guy who kept it in a 55 gallon tank its whole life. These fish are incredibly hardy. You can feed them a wide variety of things. Mine has eaten fish that died in my tank *ate them to the bone* algea wafers, massivore delights, algea. Ive also heard people feeding them veggies and fruits.
If you have a 55g tank with hardly anything to nothing in it. Buy two or 3 common pleco's at about 5 inches and start off with that. I recommend you have a wall bubbler as mine enjoys that and if you can a current of water as mine enjoys that also. Feed them properly. Keep the water tempurature at around 75-80 degrees F.
The best of luck to you! And sorry i keep ranting on haha
If you have a 55g tank with hardly anything to nothing in it. Buy two or 3 common pleco's at about 5 inches and start off with that. I recommend you have a wall bubbler as mine enjoys that and if you can a current of water as mine enjoys that also. Feed them properly. Keep the water tempurature at around 75-80 degrees F.
The best of luck to you! And sorry i keep ranting on haha
I don't agree with the whole "beginner fish" concept. Most aquarium fish aren't hard to keep, some just require a little more research and attention to detail than others. There's no reason you couldn't start off with a breeding group of L46 provided you knew what you were doing. Fishkeeping isn't a skill like playing piano or golf that needs to be practised repeatedly to get good at it, I've seen many "new" hobbyists with only a few years experience who would easily trump some "old hands" simply because of their ability to read and learn.
Depending on where you are getting your fish from commons actually may be harder to keep than exotics. Lfs brings commons in for next to nothing, they know then can move them fast because they sell it cheap, so they don't really put too much effort in keeping them. Exotics, in another hand, costs lfs a bit more to bring in, so it's in their best interest to try to keep them healthy (ah ha! finally I disagree with David R!). Too bad I'd have to agree with David R Again on the no beginning fish concept. If you must say there are types of beginning fish, I'd have to say it would be based on the pricing of the fish, not difficulty. As long as you've done enough research, and are willing to provide the correct environment for the fish, can buy healthy fish from good source, most fish are fairly easy to keep.
Don't buy a common just because you think they are hardier or easier if that's not the fish you want to keep. You'll just end up having to deal with trying to sell/give it away. Buy something you like, buying from the market place is usually a safer bet then from lfs.
Don't buy a common just because you think they are hardier or easier if that's not the fish you want to keep. You'll just end up having to deal with trying to sell/give it away. Buy something you like, buying from the market place is usually a safer bet then from lfs.