might get a pleco
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What do you mean you're "getting a pleco?"
Most of them get really huge (1 foot sometimes.) And I hear they are poop machines.
I think there's a couple that stay smaller, like bristlenoses.
Wait around for more opinions because I'm not sure about this.
If you want something that will eat algae when it appears, I'd go with otos depending on what else you've got in the tank and how big it is.
Btw, you can post all your tanks and stuff in your signature like mine.
Most of them get really huge (1 foot sometimes.) And I hear they are poop machines.
I think there's a couple that stay smaller, like bristlenoses.
Wait around for more opinions because I'm not sure about this.
If you want something that will eat algae when it appears, I'd go with otos depending on what else you've got in the tank and how big it is.
Btw, you can post all your tanks and stuff in your signature like mine.
BNs are great as glass cleaners, Otos are better at riding your broad leaf plants of diatoms. So they make a great team in a lowlight planted tank.
No you don't have to have algae, feeding algae tabs is fine. You don't have a large enough tank for a Common so go with a BN.
If this is for your bluegill tank..Then no pleco for you. Plecos need tropical temperatures that are not good for the Bluegill.
No you don't have to have algae, feeding algae tabs is fine. You don't have a large enough tank for a Common so go with a BN.
If this is for your bluegill tank..Then no pleco for you. Plecos need tropical temperatures that are not good for the Bluegill.
I purchased a couple rubberlip plecos recently and they devoured the algae in my tank overnight. They are small plecos as well, maxing out around 5". I have bristlenose in a couple other tanks and they don't seem to cut as much algae as the rubberlips. I too keep otos along with the plecos as a tag team effect. Otos for plants and plecos for glass and substrate. They make a great team together and the rubberlip plecos have a cool yellowness to them, under their scales.