pleco vs acrylic

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I disagree about panaque, my blue eye did scratch the inside of an acrylic tank. THis was many years ago (10 or so) and better acrylics exist now than back then so perhaps that had something to do with it.

I had another pleco that scratched the inside of an acrylic tank, I think it was a pseudocanthus leopardus (not positive but I'm thinking that's what it was)

Anymore I keep little plecos in acrylic to be safe....
 
This tank is definately not new. I bought it 10 years ago, and it had already been around the block...a few times. The Royal Pleco was about 7-8"(long story, but I got him stunted like that, and he didn't grow more than 1" in the 7 years I had him). I've also had Sailfin Plecos(P. Gibbiceps), Clown plecos(small, but a wood eater), and Gold Nugget plecos in acrylic tanks, never had a problem.

I'd love to see some pics of pleco damage if anyone has some. I'd like to see what it looks like.

Justin
 
My sailfin was never a problem either nor were my clown pleco's.

The tank started looking foggy in a couple areas, upon closer inspection, the foggyness was hundreds of tiny scratches being caused by the blue eve cleaning off the surface. THis tank got direct sunlight on one of the ends so it allways had algae on it so the blue eye was constantly working that area.

I don't have the tank anymore so I can't take a picture of it. Even more sad, I don't have the Blue eye anymore either.

I am amazed at some of the things I have seen with fish causing scratches. I have a 300 acrylic right now that has scratch markes in it from a large clown trigger swimming back and forth in it. His body was abrasive and left tiny scratches the whole lengh of the tank. He (the clown trigger) has scratched up the end panel of a glass aquarium with his teeth. He can seea another trigger in an aquarium next to him and is trying to get to it. That same aquarium (the 300 acrylic) has a large puffer in it right now. The puffer gets excited when people are at the tank, he's thinking he's going to get fed. He daily puts big scratches in the tank with his teeth. Cool fish but annoying.....
 
I think that if a pleco could eat acryllic he would probably be able to rasp away the cilicone siding on glass tanks too. So far my two royal plecos or rubber plecos have done neither.
 
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