wow that would be a very scary looking common pleco. They don't typical show their aggression side of chasing fish around. they might just latch on a slow moving fish and suck the coats off. I'll just leave a nasty white mark.
Red Wolf, Erythrinus ( and other variants) community?
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wow that would be a very scary looking common pleco. They don't typical show their aggression side of chasing fish around. they might just latch on a slow moving fish and suck the coats off. I'll just leave a nasty white mark.
I have a group of 4 that I keep together and they are mature 8"+. This seems to be the exception. My two cents/experience on this is that it has a whole lot to do with the aquascaping. I have them in a very densely planted aquarium with a lot of driftwood and pvc caves throughout with a canopy od duckweed. I had them in a 120 and just recently moved them to a 150g. They seem to be even happier in the longer tank. They are messy eaters and they do not clean up well after themselves. So I keep a small Pleco( if he gets eaten no big loss) , a 6" sun cat and a 9" Senegal Bircher with them. They do not let the pleco such their slime coats. They are not that docile. I have kept some other fish with these guys to try to add some activity to the upper portion of the tank but had mixed results
I have kept Large Banded Silver dollars with them but they made the wolves hide, Oscars, and Salvinis picked on the wolves, Exodon Paradoxus worked but would occasionally pick off a few of the wolfs scales, Giant danios worked but would occasionally get eaten. I have attached a few pics of the aquascaping and of the wolves that I took this morning. As you can see they are very clean and large. I am going to feed them tonight and will post a video on this thread.
Nice healthy looking group of Red wolves there, IndyTexy. I agree, a spacious well aquascaped/planted tank with lots of cover is key. 
Trio of Hoplerythrinus unitaeniatus ("Gold Wolf" fish) I kept sometime ago.
Trio of Hoplerythrinus unitaeniatus ("Gold Wolf" fish) I kept sometime ago.
Nice healthy looking group of Red wolves there, IndyTexy. I agree, a spacious well aquascaped/planted tank with lots of cover is key.
Trio of Hoplerythrinus unitaeniatus ("Gold Wolf" fish) I kept sometime ago.
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wow the gold wolves are quite exceptional!
Since this thread talking about Wolf so I'm gonna highjack it abit 
I just setup a community tank content 4 clown loach (3 inches) and a 4.5 inches high finned red wolf, I setup lot of woods, plants and for the last 3 days it spend its time hiding and didn't eat anything, I got some small gold fish in the tank too but it didn't touch those gold fish. Is that normal behave?
I just setup a community tank content 4 clown loach (3 inches) and a 4.5 inches high finned red wolf, I setup lot of woods, plants and for the last 3 days it spend its time hiding and didn't eat anything, I got some small gold fish in the tank too but it didn't touch those gold fish. Is that normal behave?
Give it some time... Keep the lights off while it gets acclimated... If it does not eat the goldfish try some nightcrawlers... Mine seem to prefer nightcrawlers over anyother food option.
Ok, I contacted my LFS owner and this red wolf is his own fish he kept for awhile, its also pellet ready and will accept most food but it will leave live feeders alone. I will try to give it some market prawn and see if it come out of it hiding spot
