My pleco keeps dying?

[OliverHii]

Everytime i buy those cheap normal spotted sucker they would die like within 2 weeks or so why?

 

[tigerjace]

because you are doing something wrong...

 

[surfpalmsncycads]

your water quality is number 1. also drift wood in the tank? what else is in the tank?

 

[Fat Homer]

Common plecos are pretty hardy for the most part... what else do you have in your tank? what size is the tank your pleco is in? What type of filtration are you running? and how often do you do water changes?

If you give us some basic info, maybe some one here will be able to pin point where the problem is for you?

 

[OliverHii]

in my tank theres 2 bichirs and a gar and an arowana. filtration is overhead filter and sump filter. and yes there are driftwood in the tank

 

[Citrinellus]

Thats a good stock of fish, what is the tank size they are in? And are you able to test the water quality and give us the readings? It'll give us a better understanding of what could be the culprit.


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[joe jaskot]

Are the plecos you are buying healthy (no sunken eyes or sunken bellies)? Are you feeding them?

 

[Zombi420]

Hum odd hows ur water quality

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[OliverHii]

i cant exactly test out the water quality but i would say it is quite good since so far non of my fishes died due to poor water quality. all of them are in a 5x2x2 ft tank

 

[OliverHii]

i would often put in some feeder into the tank for my fishes and the pleco would help to eat the dead fish also, so i rarely feed it unless there are no dead fishes in the tank