I didn't see any leftovers in the morning so I was pretty sure they ate it. I also checked my water parameters every morning and night and nothing ever spiked, not even when 3 of them died. Granted all of my tanks are planted but I would have expected some kind of spike from that.

I kind of feel ...

Well things went downhill very quickly. Everything was going great in quarantine with the new 4, then I fed Hikari freeze dried bloodworms for the first time. I don't trust frozen food in my area so I figured I would give freeze dried a shot. The next day they all suddenly had ich. Then all but one ...

They're a bit bigger than my others! Their quarantine tank is pretty densely planted with a lot of hides so I rarely see them but they don't seem as attached to caves as my males do.

Fingers crossed for at least 2 females!

I bought 4 more! I specifically requested females and I'm feeling pretty optimistic about this bunch.

Thank you! I feared they were looking male. I think I'm cursed!

They're a little hard to compare because he's over twice their size. I think his look a bit longer?

Can anyone help me sex these two l129? I already have a male and I wanted one of these to be a female but I'm losing hope.

Pleco 1
Pleco 2

I got the call from the store that they got L129 in! The employee could only see one though so I had him put it on hold for me until I can pick it up on Monday. Crossing my fingers that it's a female!

Now I remember why I don't like this other store. The employees completely ignore you because they're too busy on their phones and all the tanks have fish that are gasping at the surface and/or dead.

They only had clown plecos and ancistrus.

I've always had a lot of wood in all my tanks. Spider wood, cholla, and I can't remember what the other kind is. Catappa leaves are always in there and I'm getting in to botanicals, so I'm slowly adding in seed pods, tree bark, and various stems. I put a sterculia pod in that acts as an edible cave ...

If I don't find any I might have to send my mom to buy a couple before she comes up here. She lives near Stockton and she usually comes to visit me in the summer.

I remembered another store I'll go look at today. I didn't like it at all when I checked it out the first time but I can't remember why ...

I'm in a little town in Northern California. I think the post office is the only thing preventing it from being classified as a village.

Oh geez, I don't think I can afford 4 of them plus other fish I'm waiting for to come in. My LFS is pretty expensive because it's the only real one around, minus Petco and a pathetic store full of dead guppies and cories. I'll definitely buy 2 though, maybe 3 if they're cheaper due to small size. I ...

Sorry in advance for the long post.

I've had this fish for nearly two years now and he's FINALLY eating bloodworms consistently. He'll nibble on garlic-soaked tilapia but I don't think he eats a substantial amount of that. He kinda eats Repashy but he also spits a lot of it out. Plants are still ...

Wow yea that definitely looks like the fish! Thank you for identifying it! The poor thing is so stunted. I don't know what they're going to do with it but I'm certainly not taking it. I don't have anywhere near enough room to give it a proper tank.

My mom's boyfriend wants to tear down his 30-gallon tank and give me his 4 remaining fish, which are all 8-10 years old. I'm very skeptical about this pleco. Is it a stunted common pleco or a female bristlenose? My mom estimates it's around 6 inches.

I did put him in a bare tank for quite a while and he did a good job of starving himself. I was moving soon and didn't want a deathly skinny fish, even if he was only eating plants, so back in the usual tank he went. I'm tempted to put him in the breeding box I got to try and breed my last pair of ...

Well, it's been quite a while since I asked about this issue. My L129 wants to be a vegetarian. He still eats plants. He's killed so many plants. My monster anubias that I had to move into that tank because it was too big for the others is no more. I've tried so, so many foods and it's always a 50 ...

Thank you guys for helping me try and figure this fish out!

I do feed nightly when lights are off. I toss in something meaty (dry or frozen) and something more on the veggie side (it keeps the shrimp away from the meaty stuff). The tank is away from traffic so there's not much to disturb him. I ...

There was other fish in the tank and they all developed lethal cysts. I haven't decided on new fish yet, or where to get them since the store I used to get fish at always gets poor fish now. Having other fish in that tank didn't help its eating. The first tank it was in is fully stocked but it didn ...

Its a dirt tank less than a year old. It gets root tabs and I EI dose. No problems until the pleco. The tank the pleco was in before this one also got holes in leaves until I took the pleco out and then all plants recovered and are in perfect condition.

Thank you for sexing him by the way! I've tried but I suck. Do plecos like garlic as much as other fish? I could try soaking his food in garlic guard before feeding.

I had gotten 2 more l129 but one died from getting stuck in a rock and the other had internal parasites (I've had to stop buying ...

He get a lot of carnivore wafers, bug bites, chunks of frozen fish and shrimp, and various frozen foods that all the other fish gets. He just never seems to like much of it, which is why I've tried veggies. He doesn't like those either. He'll come out of the cave/ditch if he smells repashy but he ...

It doesn't dig specifically at the roots, just in general against things to make a deep dip to sit in. It's odd. And annoying. It's a good thing quilt batting is so cheap because so much dirt gets stirred up that I have to replace it every week. The foam and ceramic media turn dark brown/black from ...

Honestly i would rather it wipe out my shrimp than my plants. It's absolutely useless at controlling the shrimp population.
Last night I put in cucumber, spinach, and a few other leafy greens. No idea if it ate any cucumber since the shrimp seemed to completely take over all of it. The leafy greens ...

It definitely looks full grown to me. I would say 2.5-3 inches. It is still eating meaty foods, though it doesn't do so in a particularly enthusiastic manner. Fish and shrimp usually have to sit in the tank overnight, then it'll eat some the next morning 8-|
Are there any plants they don't seem to ...

Some number of months ago I got an L129. After having it for a while I noticed the plant leaves looked to be riddled with bite marks. Since the L129 was the only new addition I figured it was to blame. I moved it to another tank that only contains swords, crypts, and moss as these are usually hardy ...

Thanks to you all I have no worries about oxygen in the bags now!

Wrapping the inner bag in newspaper is a great idea. I might try that even though I don't think l129 count as a particularly high puncture risk.

Do they not sell Sera bags to the general public? I like that there's no corners but ...

Neptune Aquatics is actually where I go! I asked about bags a while ago when I was in there, so long ago that they still had a phone, and was told they don't give or sell them. Maybe it's changed since then so I'll ask if I go back before I move. It's an unlikely trip given that I found my favorite ...

Regular bags it is then! Thank you very much! Oddly enough my LFS will not give away bags so I'll probably get some from Aquabid or Ebay.