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Re: Pleco advice
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2021 14:07 pm
by PaulVerrall
fr499y wrote: ↑Tue Jul 20, 2021 14:01 pm
For some reason I was thinking your tank was smaller than it is! A common will be fine but prepare for a LOT of mess
Ah OK, mess is something I could do without more of with oscars and parrots in there so you've done me a favour!
Re: Pleco advice
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2021 17:36 pm
by wilkinss77
PaulVerrall wrote: ↑Tue Jul 20, 2021 14:07 pm
fr499y wrote: ↑Tue Jul 20, 2021 14:01 pm
For some reason I was thinking your tank was smaller than it is! A common will be fine but prepare for a LOT of mess
Ah OK, mess is something I could do without more of with oscars and parrots in there so you've done me a favour!
Shouldn't think a plec would make all that much more mess, tbh.
Re: Pleco advice
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2021 17:48 pm
by fr499y
You ever kept a common plec? LOL
Re: Pleco advice
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2021 19:41 pm
by wilkinss77
fr499y wrote: ↑Tue Jul 20, 2021 17:48 pm
You ever kept a common plec? LOL
Many times. They never made as much mess as cichlids did. They were true Hypostomus though, not those Pterygoplichthys that pass as common plecs today.
Re: Pleco advice
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2021 19:51 pm
by fr499y
very true. I had a 12" ptery and boy did he crap more than the oscars, snakehead and pike cichlid combined!
Re: Pleco advice
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2021 19:54 pm
by PaulVerrall
fr499y wrote: ↑Tue Jul 20, 2021 19:51 pm
very true. I had a 12" ptery and boy did he crap more than the oscars, snakehead and pike cichlid combined!
Blimey. My Oscars have bigger turnouts than me nowadays
Re: Pleco advice
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2021 20:16 pm
by fr499y
LOL! I don't miss cleaning out a tank with bigger fish!
Re: Pleco advice
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2021 20:20 pm
by black ghost
A plec can eat as much as an Oscar the same length. A well fed herbivorous one will outpoop most cichlids because of its less efficient digestive system.
Re: Pleco advice
Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2021 8:28 am
by plankton
How many fish do you already have Paul?
I thought you were letting the current inhabitants get to their full adult size now??
Re: Pleco advice
Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2021 9:51 am
by PaulVerrall
plankton wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 8:28 am
How many fish do you already have Paul?
I thought you were letting the current inhabitants get to their full adult size now??
I have 4 oscars, 3 parrots, 1 severum and 1 tiny polar blue (short bodied convict).
Since my male convict died I've wanted to get another as my polar misses him and is lonesome and left out in the tank, so have ordered 3 convicts to see how they go with mind to remove if necessary.
A pleco would be if I have to separate the Oscars and rehome any.
At the moment the 2 big tigers are 12 and 11 inches. I have one albino tiger that is in rapid growth mode and up to 9" and an albino red that is 6".
(Really should update my tank log)