Newbie Question

[PurpleCow]

Hello,

I have just decided to set up a fish tank and I need some advice. The fish tank is going to be a heavily planted 20 gallon tall tank with some small community fish in it. I remember when I was young (the last time I had a fish tank) I got a "common pleco" at the pet store and he was grumpy as anything but I loved that little sucker. Sadly now I'm older and doing research I realize the reason he was grumpy was probably because he was in a ten gallon tank at the time! I'd love to get another but I still feel a 20 gallon is too small for this. So here's my question. I am looking for a catfish that is small enough to keep in a 20 gallon for the entirety of it's entire life - preferably one that I can keep two of if not a small group (whatever it does best with.) I am also not looking for anything that will break the bank. I'm not expecting $2 feeder guppy prices but I'm not willing to pay $100 a fish either, at least not right now. Is there anything any of you would suggest that'd be good for this tank? Whatever you tell me I will look up extensively until I make the right choice and know what I am getting into. Thank you so much. PS whatever you suggest doesn't have to be South American either. I am open to all options here...

[Jools]

How about

Ancistrus

or smaller

Panaqolus

?

Here is a search of smaller plecos. If you want a group, consider

Otocinclus

.

Hope that helps,

Jools

[dog321fish]

Hi Jools

First fish in your link to smaller plecos is Acanthicus adonis ?


You may want to change it ?

Cheers

Dave

[CoryfanAad]

[img]http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/25/ganymy7a.jpg[/img] Just a pic of my ancistrus at diner!!! Perfect fish !!

[Jools]

First fish in your link to smaller plecos is Acanthicus adonis ?

Yeah, sorry, I found out the hard way that if you can't post a link. However, if you go to the species search, select the family loricariidae and put in a min. size of 1mm and a max. size of 90mm then you will get the picture...

Cheers,

Jools

[corielover]

I would definitely suggest an Ancistrus; mine is very personable and friendly, and also very visible. He also keeps the tank clean, and is very hardy. They are also common in fish stores and fairly cheap.

[MatsP]

Yeah, sorry, I found out the hard way that if you can't post a link. However, if you go to the species search, select the family loricariidae and put in a min. size of 1mm and a max. size of 90mm then you will get the picture...

Somewhere I've mentioned that this is a misfeature of the search... I wanted to have a "provide a link for this search result". But I guess it's my fault for not implementing this...

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Mats