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I am going to be upgrading my tank to a 75 gallon. I currently have 1 Albino BN Pleco. It will be planted heavily and will have driftwood and a few caves.
Which Pleco's could get along with small community fish and stay around 5-7 inches like my ancictrus. I have read some can be territorial with other Plecs. Here is a quick list on what I wanted to know if it could work.
L163 - Big Spot Peckoltia
Starlight BN Pleco
L030 Peppermint Pleco
I am open to all suggestions, I would not be opposed to housing 3-4 Plecs in the 75 gallon. or maybe that is too many. I plan on having a big school of tetras, plecs, and school of corydoras. Thanks for any help you can give.
- 4-7 inches
- Non territorial
- cool looking plec.

I read an old thread that I posted.. Hey Mats, forgot about not keeping 2 of the same genus together. I am off to research a little more.
EDIT: After re-reading an old thread which I pretty much asked the same question.(sorry)Here are 2 main factors that I am looking for... which plecos would do well in a heavily planted tank, and like their water to be 75-76 degrees F.

I would think that there are plenty of choices that would match your conditions. Aside from "not the same genus", you also need to consider the feeding needs. If you keep meat-eaters (such as Leporacanthicus and Hypancistrus) with herbivores (such as Ancistrus), you may find yourself with the herbivores gettting too much protein in their diet, and not enough fiber.

Most smaller plecos will do fine in planted tanks, and aside from being "bulldozers", there's little reason why large plecos can't be kept with plants. There are usually not much in the way of plants in the natural habitat of plecos, but they don't mind it.

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Mats

I have become enfatuated with the "super red" BN pleco... Is it shunned upon to put say with an Albino and reg. BN pleco... 3 in total? I had a tough time finding another pleco to fit into the scheme of my tank. I would try and get all females so there was no interbreeding between color variants? Any ideas (mats you are very helpful) just throw em my way.

It is another captive bred form of the (aka. "Common bristlenose"), so there is no problem keeping or even breeding all these together - you will inevitably only get brown ones, since the genetics for "super red" and "albino" are both recessive, so both parents need to have the gene for it to show its effect in the offspring - breeding the offspring together [which is technically inbreeding] will produce a portion of the fry to have both genes.

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Mats