Is it true?

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Thinking about getting a couple of bushynose plecos to clean off algae on the sides and decor of my tank. My tank is acrylic. I have heard that plecos can cause damage to the sides of an acyrlic tank. Is this really true?
 
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Depends on the pleco. From what I've been told BN's will not damage the acrylic. Royal and commons are known to destroy acrylic.
 
Jackson said:
Depends on the pleco. From what I've been told BN's will not damage the acrylic. Royal and commons are known to destroy acrylic.
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^ this... The panaque species are the wood chippers and acrylic scratchers, not ancistrus. I have BN pleco's in almost ever tank I have. I have for years and they have never caused an issue.
 
Stay away from the panaque plecos, I had a watermelon pleco completly ruin my 90 gallon. Albino bn are your best choice imo.
 
Allan01230 said:
Stay away from the panaque plecos, I had a watermelon pleco completly ruin my 90 gallon. Albino bn are your best choice imo.
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Just curious but what does skin pigment have to with how a pleco behaves? Not trying to come across rude, please don't think that. I've just never kept an albino but have kept thousands of common Ancistrus so I don't know.
 
JK47 said:
Just curious but what does skin pigment have to with how a pleco behaves? Not trying to come across rude, please don't think that. I've just never kept an albino but have kept thousands of common Ancistrus so I don't know.
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Nothing :)

In some places albinos are just easier to get over the common brown and vise versa.
 
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