got six new fish today!!!

[mattmctyre]

*GOLDFISH**crazysmil*DRUMMER**celebrate*BOUNCINGS*got five new fancy guppys. and i got one new common pleco. also got some new plants

 

[Newman]

Woah, easy with the smilies there...
I would be careful about that common pleco. i made the same mistake of buying it for a 40Gallon. It will outgrow your tank, and mess up any live plants that you may want to keep. I suggest getting a bristle-nose pleco instead. Make sure to get a species that doesnt grow too big (under 6")

Otherwise congrads, hope they'll like their new home.

 

[mattmctyre]

thanks buddy ya it said eighteen inches on the info for the pleco . and i have a forty gallon tank but right now he only is bout 4 inches. how fast do you think he will grow

 

[Newman]

Mine grew from 3" to 6" in about a year and a half. This is ONLY because of improper tank handling, ammonia spikes, cold water temps, and poor diet (my parents only fed it with algae wafers.)

Under NORMAL conditions, a common pleco, in a 40gal should grow to about a foot long in one year, no matter what size he started at.

Its up to you man.

 

[misterking]

Yep, mine was a monster within a year, around a foot long. And 18 inches? More like 24 in good conditions, they're not suitable for tanks any smaller than 100 gallons.

 

[hippiefish22]

Is a albino chocolate pleco okay for a 44 gallon tank with live plants?

 

[misterking]

No, too big in the long run, and likely to dig up all your plants. Albino chocolate plecos are basically albino common plecos, the terms "common" and "chocolate" actually apply to a very large group of similarly sized/shaped plecos.