They will also eat courgette ours eats the courgette that we put in for the other plecs.
It is correct that they need a mainly carniverous diet we feed our Arabesque frozen bloodworm, brineshimp, mussel Hikari wafers ect.

We have kept our Baryancistrus Sp. ( L018 ) Gold Nugget for 2 years with cories with no problems at all. :D
The only thing is need to put some food in after dark to make sure he gets enough to eat. We put in cougette daily and vary it with hikari algae wafers and mussels ect.
Racoll is right they ...

Thanks Jools.

Looking forward to it.

What time does it all kick off on Sunday please?

We have ordered our tickets but dont know what time to be there for!

Thanks.

Hi Thanks for reply
will Nugget pleco's get that big in a tank, and how long will it take for my 3 inch L108 to grow to full size.We have had him for 2 years and he has doubled in size and is doing really well
Pete

I have noticed that the gold nugget feature on this excellent catfish site (catfish of the month) has changed slightly, the L numbers listed with pictures next to them. The picture that used to be for the L177 is next to L018 and L177 now has a new picture.
Sounds like I've become an anorack and I ...

If you put the algae wafer in after dark the clown will find it no problem and Hikari alge wafers dont break up like some pellets so the other fish wont eat it it before the plec does

I tried adding a clown plec to our planted tank but took him out after a day because he did not look happy . This was a" norma l" planted set up with added CO2. I think that the CO2 was the problem either the lowered pH or the level of CO2 in the water. I know you are only adding CO2 to one tank but ...

I forgot to say the tank we are thinking of getting is the Juwel 180 Rio which has a capacity of 180 liters.

We have had our gold nugget for a year now and he has grown to 2.5 inches :D . At the moment he is in a 2 foot tank filtered by an ehiem external 2233 ecco. I realise that he will outgrow the 2 foot tank and am looking at bigger tanks. Would a 36 by 12 inch tank be big enough, we are limited by ...

Hi funnily enough we have had the same problem with our 4" royal the tetras and barbs and angel fish did not bother him at all but the 7" Gibbiceps chased him off the food all the time damaging his top fin we have now moved him into his own tank. I think tetras barbs ect are fine but sometimes ...

thanks for replies it was definately the carbon as the pH is stable now after taking it out.
I have always used carbon to keep the water clear, as there is bogwood in tank
I wont chance using it again as the fish got stessed out and I lost one angelfish
But they are all OK now

I had a problem that the pH dropped from 7 to 6 and the KH went from 3 to zero and dropped again even after adding KH buffer ( Kent marine pH stable).
The only thing different was that I used carbon granules (in the external filter) from a different shop.

I removed the carbon and did a water ...

We have got a large spot gold nugget L 177 he is doing very well :D and has grown to 3 inches .
I think that he could do with a bigger tank as I am struggling to keep nitrates down below 20 ppm.
I am doing a water change every 3 to 4 days, if I leave it the nitrates rise to 40 ppm.
He lives with a ...

I have had my panaque now for 10 months.
During the day when the lights are on he sits under a piece of bogwood, usually in sight but away from the light.
The tank has 5 pieces of bogwood with plants, but he always retires to the same piece of wood away from the light.
In fact both the panaque and ...

Am I right in assuming a couple small Ceramic pet bowls is OK in tank and that nothing untoward will leach out into the water?
I want to put plants in gravel in a couple of small bowls rather than into substate as it will be a lot easer to clean out tank.
I already have 2 Hygrophila plants in the ...

Am trying to vary the diet of our gold nugget a bit to give him some meat in addition to his main diet of hikari wafers and corgette.
I presume the shelled ones from the fish counter that have been cooked are the best to use, are frozen ones OK too ?
I have read about feeding blood worm ect but the ...

I have got a Gibbiceps and Panaque Nigrolineatus in a 36 by 15 by 18inch tank (about 35 gallons ) with a meduim external filter (eheim 2233, 5 watt rated at 500 litres hour ) with siporax medium and carbon and a ehiem small internal filter with sponge.There are about 12 other fish in this tank ...

Hi Shane and cheese specialist thanks for your replies, I learned a lot from them :D

I knew that Panques liked bogwood but did not realise it was the main part of their diet.
The Gibbiceps and Panaque Nigrolineatus are in a 36 by 15 by 18inch tank (about 35 gallons ) with a meduim external filter ...

Hi Zuchnni is a good diet for plecs you can also get algae wafers and tablet food for plecs
Pete

Have got 2 tanks with plecos
One with a 5 inch gibbiceps and 2 inch panaque,
one with a clown and gold nugget both 2.5 inches
I feed once daily with either corgette (zuchni) potato, pellet or algae wafer.
I put 2 slices of cogette in the gibby's tank one in the nugget's tank and remove whats left in ...

The ottos in my planted tank seem to be doing well at the mo and are looking quite plump.
Are they likely to breed?
there are 5 of them with some guppies and amano shimp.
pete

We tried Hikari algae wafers and our gold nugget loves them also feed cougette as well.

Am I right in thinking that different species of pleco get along OK, it is only when you add two the same such as two panques that they may fight,
I have one tank with a 5 inch gibbiceps and a 2 inch panque they get along well and will even share the same bogwood ( there are 4 picies of wood in the ...

Hi Id agree with Guy, mine is most active at night but comes out in the day when you put food in

Am thinking of getting one as I have trouble collecting enough rainwater for 3 tanks.
Does anyone have any basic info on them like how do you know when to change the carbon prefilter and how long do the filters and membranes last
I dont use tapwater as they add chloramine where I live
thanks
pete

Thanks for the reply, however what does AFAIK mean
A 50% water change is done every 2 weeks and he shares the tank with a Royal Panaque (3 inches).
Water is good and nitrates are zero.

He is about 5 inches at the mo and doing realy well :D
Got him when he was about 2 inches.
He is in a 36 by 15 by 18inch tank with a large external filter.
I realise that they can get to 18 inches and will get a bigger tank in the future if I need to.
Do plecs like gibbiceps only get to a large ...

I changed over the sponge in the external filter to siporax sintered glass rings 6 weeks ago.
This is on my main tank which is a 40 gallon with a gibbiceps who is a messy feeder
I was very suprised to get an almost zero nitrite reading :D
My second tank, a 30 inch heavily planted set up with ...

Thanks guys I wont now be putting him in the planted tank I have put him in my 40 gallon tank with a gibbiceps seem to be getting on fine.