Probably not. The owner did say he just throws them an algae wafer now and then. The tanks are too clean for the babies to find any algae and there are just too many of them for the little sales tank. The 4 I have from that bunch have little fat tummies. What do you feed newly free swimming babies ...

Just once so I can see.

I'm seeing what happened to the accidental pleco litter that was dumped on the LFS. They are all dying. Few dead ones in there each time I stop and the others are skin and bones. I'll probably just do a pleco adoption on craigslist.

I'll use my rock pile for Mr. Piggy and his harem. They won't be so critical of design flaws and buy a few ready made ones for the others. Now to figure out if I want the boxy slate ones or ones cut into river rock. Do the fish care? My tanks tend to be heavily planted so little of it is actually ...

Aww... Why do I feel like nobody likes the little ugly bushynose here. Yes they are common but they are a good confidence builder. They are also a nice community fish. They aren't all that crabby about other bottom feeders. They are out a lot in the day. My mature pair actually interacts with me a ...

http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r182/fostesky1/caves1.jpg Stopped at the landscaping rock place. Got 2 piles of pieces like this for $1. There is granite, bluestone and slate. He had all kinds of scraps from making more artistic things. Pretty much all I have to do now it piece things together ...

You are right. I shouldn't be so lazy. My husband actually has a tool that can do it somewhere in the barn. I even have a 3' x 2' piece of slate in one of the out buildings. It's thin enough where I could probably score it and break it to the right size. 1/4 inch bigger all around? 1/2? The 4 I got ...

Before I spend good money on rocks is this the size I would need for L129? Says they were sized for zebras, small hypans. http://www.aquabid.com/cgi-bin/auction/auction.cgi?breeding&1305923278 The sizing on these ready made caves is kind of surprising me, so tight a fit. Really? I've been reading ...

Should have some heading this way soon. Thank you all! The people here are so nice. Glad I found this forum but it may make me sneak in another tank in the back room. I did consider the L340s but I went with the smaller fish for now. If I find a nice person who wants some BN I may try something else ...

Flourish excel is gluteraldehyde. It kills algae. Hospitals use it as disinfectant. Put a bucket of old fish tank water out in the sun with a bit of nitrogen. You will have algae soon enough. Nitrogen could be as simple as a few pellets of rabbit food. (Probably a few crumbs of algae wafer would ...

I had an american eel in a 29 gallon tank as a kid. It was actually an interesting pet. Lived in the undergravel filter. When somebody approached the tank he would come up and see if dinner was served. My mother hated him so he eventually went back to the bay. I have a small beaver pond on my ...

Looking for 2-4. I'd like to get a breeding pair. I don't mind waiting for youngsters to grow up. There is nothing within 100+ miles of here. Only place I found online was gouging on the shipping bad and another that had "borrowed" pictures showing 2 different linds fish on 2 different auctions ...

Upstate NY is the poster child for acid rain and chemical runoff from groomed lawns. I'd be testing the well for your own safety. How far are you from that huge country club? New England soils are notoriously low in calcium. You're just a breath away from NE. A lot of the general values in the water ...

The USDA protects the word organic and actually defines what is and isn't to the point where it is silly. For example I have a very large vegetable garden. In good years I will sell the excess vegetables in front of the house. I can't technically say the vegetables are organic because I am not ...

Mt. Kisco, if I remember right just above NYC a bit. I'm an escaped NYer. It's a big enough town where you might find water reports online or at least nearby towns. poof! Here it is.... http://www.mountkisco.org/Pages/MtKiscoNY_Water/2004.pdf and a more recent one from the county http://www ...

I've had the catfish bug right along only I stayed away from them because of a tank buster pleco when I was a small child. At 5 or 6 years old Santa Claus brought me a 10 gallon tank. In it were a couple angel fish, a few neons, a zebra fish and a common pleco. As the angels got bigger they turned ...

How did the little pitbull pleco gets it's name? I was expecting a carnivorous giant, instead it's a little algae eater. Amusing and unexpected. Giving myself a bull dog of a headache flipping from tab to tab looking up L numbers. What about L 129? Seems to be a small thing. Not too expensive and I ...

My local pet shop calls them drawf plecos too. I suppose they are compared to the common pleco and some other tank busters. Mostly you are seeing American English. We can be a lazy bunch.

I have otos. I admit I never thought of them as a pleco until I started reading this board. I sort of live in a fish store desert. I've got one lfs about 15 miles from the house. I never see anything unusual there. I never saw common ancistrus until I was sent one with some guppies. Next pet shops ...

I've got bushynose. I think I want to try my hand at another kind that isn't a tank buster. Something smaller than my bushynose,that I don't have to re-mortgage for? Plant safe, community tank. The 75 gallon is full of guppies. My 29 gallon is has micro rasboras of different sorts and a few neon ...

When I was 6, Santa Claus brought me a 10 gallon fish tank. Grossly overstocked with angels and neons and a common pleco. I liked that fish but he quickly outgrew the tank. Sort of traumatized me at the time and kept me from ever buying another pleco. A few months ago I bought some guppies online ...

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I was just looking for a small pleco for my tanks anyway. Seems like I got them.
I only paid $2.99 so I did ok.

I haven't kept a pleco since I was 6 years old, I'm 52 so I'm having fun with them. Very amusing to watch.

The young woman that brought them into the pet shop didn't know. She described the 4 potential parents as being all about 4 to 4.5 inches and one being an albino. Said they all looked a little different from the other. The babies were a total surprise and she didn't know which were the parents ...

Got the camera going. Few more pictures in the album too. Just a sony cybershot so they aren't perfect either. Babies are smaller than a lot of guppies right now so it will take practice to get the perfect shot.

Nope! Most water from dug wells here is soft, soft, soft. My water is darn near RO. Without me adding handfuls of lime I dissolve snails and shrimp. Wasn't until I got into planted tanks that I figured out why I couldn't keep a snail or a guppy alive up here. The deep artisian wells are a different ...

The fin stripes are right on that one but the spots are wrong. Tge spots are more like the one Matt posted. The fin and tail stripes are very much bright white. The spots are more muted and larger. I just found the camera. Unfortunately the charger, battery and card are gone. I had hidden it from my ...

The spots are right but I'm not seeing the white stripe on the ends of the tail and dorsal in any of the pictures. I'm not looking for anything amazing just a little pleco that's pretty. Pretty sure I have that much. Not that I've seen that many bristlenose but I've never seen that bright white ...

Bad cell phone pics I apologise. Looking for the digital camera and will get better when found. These babies showed up at a local fish store. There were 50 or more at one time. The store didn't know and the person who dumped them there didn't know. The woman who brought them in said she had 4 and ...