Mixing fancy plecs: Your advice.

[ewurm]

My loach tank has a clown plec, a queen arabesque, and a rubbernose for algae. I had to get the sweetest Gold Nugget I have seen come in. I put him in that tank. Will there be fighting, or will they find their own spots? There is plenty of cover.

 

[BDawg364]

Well..... I mix them, with some success. I have an L-252 with a king tiger, a clown, a BN, a leopard and a butterfly and they have been fine for a while. I have never had a GN that lived over 4 days.

Although, They are all in a 120 with a few holey DW pieces with loaches and other bottom feeders, with a school of silver dollars.

 

[WyldFya]

There should not be any problems.

 

[Gr8KarmaSF]

I agree with WyldFya...

you might also consider moving things around so that all the plecos re-orient themselves...

 

[StiffMeister]

i would do it too, dont worry about the fish, probably gonna be some fighting to establish territoria and thats it.

 

[JD_MAN]

I had 4 or 5 different fancy plecos in with my loaches and I never noticed any problems with any of them. They each had a lot of spots to hide and never really seemed to be close to each other. They all kind of did their own thing.

 

[ewurm]

All is well. The Gold Nugget has one side of the tank, the Queen has the other. I'll try and get pics of the Nugget.

 

[davo]

Maybe when the GN gets large... but be a long way off that. As long as everyone has a hideyhole, it'll be fine. I've personally mixed all those fish together and had no problems

 

[ewurm]

Maybe when the GN gets large... but be a long way off that. As long as everyone has a hideyhole, it'll be fine. I've personally mixed all those fish together and had no problems

The Queen died for absolutely no reason. The body was still in perfect shape and color when i pulled it out. Sucks, that was a nice one. I am getting another, the L-260 is definitely one of the top 5 plecs.

 

[BDawg364]

That sucks man, it was a sweet fish...... :