plecos with cichlids???

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I have lots of brown algae on my rocks. Someone told me that they will turn green eventually, making the rocks look nice. Is this right?

I don't have any plecos at all primarily because I want that green algae on my rocks.
 
i have heard stories about the pl*cos eyes being eaten off..but i guess it depends on a a lot of parameters like how big the tank is, hiding places, if the africans are adults, (which are more aggressive), the specific type of africans, and the individual personality of the fish to name a few. its hard to predict what will happen in all humility...and the magnafloat is always the safest bet. lol
 
I have yellow labs, electric blue labs and red zebras in with a bristlenose, 4 clown loaches, and 7 red fin tetras (no other place to put the tetras at the moment).

I guess I have the least aggressive cichlids ever, because that tank has no problems with torn fins or aggression. That said, it is full of stacked slate, and there are probably enough caves for every fish to have 2.
 
i put two plecos and two corrys in my tank one of my corrys got both of its eyes eaten by the chichlids and it died and the chichlids also ate an eye of the pleco but it survived
 
my pleco lost an eye...and was dead within 24 hours. I then went from a 3" chocolate to a 7" albino chocolate and have had no problems with the later. In this case, size def. matters :)
 
I have a 3 inch albino bristlenose pleco in my african tank. I have almost the same fish and my johanni and auratus can be complete a-holes, but they only bugged him for a day now he just goes around and eats what he wants. I still feed him an algae pellet daily and all is well.
 
i have a common pleco with an 10in tiger oscar and they do alright together but i had to get rid of an 4inch jackdempsy cause it was terrorising the pleco
 
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