Pimelodus Blochii wasn’t an option in aquaadvisor
Thoughts on stocking?
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You have what I would call an odd mix of fish that you would keep in a number of setups but not all in the same one.
Your not going to want to keep p. Blochi in a 6 ft community setup and not with Pictus cats, the blochii will reach 14” and will see a 6ft tank as the smallest territory that is all his. The plec will reach 2 ft and be longer than the tank is wide. That in itself will put the nitrates through the roof.
The Pictus may bother the butterfly at night and cause them to keep trying to escape through flight. The blochii will just outright eat them.
Having 1 of many cichlid just frustrates the hell out of them and often turns them nasty in my experience, especially when put with 1 from other types, so either pick one and setup around them as an oddball setup or go for less aggressive types like the angels or dwarfs and go community. If going community then don’t go for fish that will look just too big or out of place. 6 ft is a good size but not huge, but the height really plays into the realm of angelfish or archerfish.
on a separate note, jewel cichlid are vastly under rated and believed to be really nasty - I have never found this to be the case and have bred pairs in large community setups. That said I have also raised their young in a tank of red bellied piranha so maybe I just have friendly fish!
Your not going to want to keep p. Blochi in a 6 ft community setup and not with Pictus cats, the blochii will reach 14” and will see a 6ft tank as the smallest territory that is all his. The plec will reach 2 ft and be longer than the tank is wide. That in itself will put the nitrates through the roof.
The Pictus may bother the butterfly at night and cause them to keep trying to escape through flight. The blochii will just outright eat them.
Having 1 of many cichlid just frustrates the hell out of them and often turns them nasty in my experience, especially when put with 1 from other types, so either pick one and setup around them as an oddball setup or go for less aggressive types like the angels or dwarfs and go community. If going community then don’t go for fish that will look just too big or out of place. 6 ft is a good size but not huge, but the height really plays into the realm of angelfish or archerfish.
on a separate note, jewel cichlid are vastly under rated and believed to be really nasty - I have never found this to be the case and have bred pairs in large community setups. That said I have also raised their young in a tank of red bellied piranha so maybe I just have friendly fish!
Will I be able to center a tank with the pictus angelfish and pleco? since those are the fish I like the most out of the stocking
No unfortunately I was only substituting for P. Blochii which wasn't an option in aquaadvisor
The Pictus and angelfish will work together, done that myself in a planted 6ft setup, but you really need to look at the plec and change that out for a smaller version. A 6ft tank will be trashed by a 2 ft plec. And the chances of you guaranteeing you have joselmaianius at 3” instead of gibbiceps are practically zero. (Not that I personally believe joselmaianius stops at 12”).
By all means start him off in there but you need then to have a forever home for him as after 9-12 months he will be over 12” and many LFS have tanks with large plecs in that people cannot house and try to return.
These plecs produce a huge amount of waste so you would need excellent filtration, with a water turnover the angels may find extreme.
My three “gold spots” all lost their colouration at around 9” and became a drab brown and turned out to be gibbiceps but are doing well and are around 2, 8 and 10 year old now, all 2ft long but all now live in 1200ukg.
By all means start him off in there but you need then to have a forever home for him as after 9-12 months he will be over 12” and many LFS have tanks with large plecs in that people cannot house and try to return.
These plecs produce a huge amount of waste so you would need excellent filtration, with a water turnover the angels may find extreme.
My three “gold spots” all lost their colouration at around 9” and became a drab brown and turned out to be gibbiceps but are doing well and are around 2, 8 and 10 year old now, all 2ft long but all now live in 1200ukg.
Is there a similar species of pleco that stays below 2 ft and grows about 10 inches or am I going to have to buy a bristlenose?
Check out the leopard cactus plec, L114 .
Or Hypostomus Weberi L167. In fact check out planetcatfish.com as there will be a number of more suitable options, depending of course on availability in your area.
Although there is nothing wrong with bristlenose, check out ancistrus sp wabenmuster the honeycomb bristlenose.
Or Hypostomus Weberi L167. In fact check out planetcatfish.com as there will be a number of more suitable options, depending of course on availability in your area.
Although there is nothing wrong with bristlenose, check out ancistrus sp wabenmuster the honeycomb bristlenose.
