Midevil with Plecos?

[demonknight]

I know the answer to this but yet i ask hoping i might be wrong

I have a 90G tank with medium sized royal plecos, butterfly pleco and small flash and green phantom plecos. Tank has a lot of driftwood and ferns. Used to have a GT but sold him off cos he was too shy and always was in hiding.

There is a nice 4" midevil at the LFS and i have been eyeballing him for some time now, but am unable to sell off my plecos and i don't have other tanks around to shift them onto.

Would the midevil play nice or would he put on his warpaint and go on a pleco massacre?

I do have a 10x5x4 pond over at my grandparent's house but is not filtered or anything. Just a tank of water with guppies and lillies. Not sure if the plecos would survive in there

 

[Backfromthedead]

my midevil promptly killed 2 plecos i tried to introduce. i wouldnt try it especially with all those nice plecos.

 

[duanes]

In nature (so obviously even more so in the confines of aquaria) plecos and cichlids are enemies.
Plecos eat cichlid eggs and wrigglers whenever the opportunity arises, and will suck the slime off cichlids while they are sleeping, so I would expect any cichlid with any moxie, would assassinate any of the Pleco pestalance with impunity.
Predatory cichlids (like a midivil) would also eat pleco fry, if the opportunity arose, so why shouldn't Plecos want to reduce any cichlid population.
I know..... way too anthropomorphic...but you get my point.

 

[demonknight]

my midevil promptly killed 2 plecos i tried to introduce. i wouldnt try it especially with all those nice plecos.

Thanks for the confirmation of my fears. Shall try and sell off my Plecos before getting the Midevil.

In nature (so obviously even more so in the confines of aquaria) plecos and cichlids are enemies.
Plecos eat cichlid eggs and wrigglers whenever the opportunity arises, and will suck the slime off cichlids while they are sleeping, so I would expect any cichlid with any moxie, would assassinate any of the Pleco pestalance with impunity.
Predatory cichlids (like a midivil) would also eat pleco fry, if the opportunity arose, so why shouldn't Plecos want to reduce any cichlid population.
I know..... way too anthropomorphic...but you get my point.

Interesting read that And yes i get the point.