moving plecos around

[Charney]

I need to rearrange several of my tanks in the next week or two and am not quite sure what to do my L200s. Right now I think i have 5 to 6 three to four L200 and I do have 5 two inch L184s in my 50g. I need to move some larger fish that eat very high protein diets into this tank. I want to move the L200s out because I don't want to risk bloat with the high protein diet. My options are to move them to a 26g bowfront by themselves and just load the tank with pvc, stone, and driftwood or to my moderately stocked 75 gallon and add a lot of hide outs. There is nothing aggressive in the 75, but there will be a lot of competition for food in thank. It would work out best for me if moved them to the 26g. thanks

 

[ElectricBlueSeanBurch]

They are fine with high protein IMO. Also as long as you feed veggies they will get plenty of food in the 75g. I wouldn't do the bowfront just from a Bioload standpoint...

 

[UnstoppableJayD]

If you are putting them with what i think, I would leave them in the 50 as there will be minimal competition for veggies.

 

[popss]

have some wood for them to rasp along with some vegie and should be fine.

 

[Charney]

If you are putting them with what i think, I would leave them in the 50 as there will be minimal competition for veggies.

I just worry about potential bloat with all the seafood going int there.

The 26 can more then handle the bioload

 

[popss]

pleco,s need wood helps with there digestion. call it fiber.

 

[UnstoppableJayD]

I just worry about potential bloat with all the seafood going int there.

The 26 can more then handle the bioload

Worrier.... where are the chubbies going?

 

[Charney]

Worrier.... where are the chubbies going?

They were going to the 50, but not if I keep the L200 in there. That may be a lot. I definitely lost one chubby and maybe a second. I can only easily find three and the look fat, but the 90 is not an easy tank to find fish. The chubbies will either end up in the 50, 75 or some in the cube

The L184s and small L14s would go 26 and L114 probably 50