Plecos with Polys

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polys with a Marble Sailfin?

  • Yes it should work

    Votes: 9 27.3%
  • Your Crazy!

    Votes: 8 24.2%
  • Try it and go from there

    Votes: 16 48.5%

  • Total voters
    33
  • Poll closed .
Let make another point. They also suck on African clawed frogs.
(And they do not resemble a wall or a plant) As before I tried to rehome my pleco I tried him in with the frogs.

Plus I don't think the pleco mistook the fish or frogs for plants or a wall, as it would follow them everywhere and you could see the fish trying to swim away (or in the frog's case, trying to kick it off) and plants and walls don't swim away.

Plecos are not picky. If it has a slime coat, a pleco will suck on it. Not a habit you can break it of. And so not worth it in my opinion.

Now many people may say it works and so on and so on. I thought so too because I had that pleco for years before it did that( or maybe I never noticed it before?). But that pleco was ALWAYS well fed. So that myth has been debunked for me.
 
don't do it! I have a 5 inch poly in 55 g so I added a 3inch bristle nose today and 1st off it got stuck in the net by it's stabbers, then once I finally untangled it it went crazy on my poly and started beating him up:(
 
I had a 12" redspot plec that would chase my 16" black aro around the top of the tank at night!!
I have a small clown plec in with my big ornate, it doesn't bother him (neither does the flagtail, luckily!), probably because he's small enough to be eaten if he pissed the bichir off!!
 
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