Caught about half dozen young Ancistrus chagresi last week near a rock wall, in the Mamoni river in east central Panama.
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They were found in a deep trench of fast flowing water, pH @ 8.2, with undetectable nitrate.
I put 5 in my main 180 gal community tank, and dropped 1 into its heavily planted 125 gal sump/refugium cycling a flow of about 1500 gph.
Where the water enters the sump, there is a lot of turbulence and splash, so algae grows above the water line.
In the shot below, the Pleco is its entire body length above the water line in the cascade.
Mamoni ! fbf3e2b0 b9a6 48b4 a83f 7b2234a335cf
They were found in a deep trench of fast flowing water, pH @ 8.2, with undetectable nitrate.
I put 5 in my main 180 gal community tank, and dropped 1 into its heavily planted 125 gal sump/refugium cycling a flow of about 1500 gph.
Where the water enters the sump, there is a lot of turbulence and splash, so algae grows above the water line.
In the shot below, the Pleco is its entire body length above the water line in the cascade.
