cheeto_1983
02-07-2008, 04:17 PM
The bottom dweller forum wouldn't let me post my thread there...it kept asking me to log in...so here I am posting in this one instead.
So in my 55 gallon I like to keep things clean and like to minimize waste buildup. So my roundup crew consists of a emerald cat, a clown loach, and 2 rubber lip/nose plecos.
When I first set out with this tank i vowed to have a unique pleco..no more normal traditional plecos. So I started with a golden nugget pleco named appropriately Mr. Las Vegas...anyways he was really awesome, but chewed the crap out of my plants and ruined all of my life plants. He then died, and I find out that they are one of the more difficult plecos to care for....MEH
So I go to replace him and find the rubber plecos which are cute...and I am told they don't get gigantic only about 6 inches, so I get two and I think they will be perfect. Here we are 8 months later and they don't eat algae....I mean I am certain they do, but they don't have the apetite I desire :mad:, but on the plus side they don't chew my plants.
I still have algae build up...and I know algae is to be expected. I leave my lights on 12 hours a day for my plants, but it gets unsightly, and its yummy green algae, so what do I do...I want an exotic pleco with an apetite of a normal traditional pleco.
Any ideas?
Oh yea I can't go with the snails due to the clown loach which I got specifically to take care of my snail problem since I was bringing in so many live plants at one point.
So in my 55 gallon I like to keep things clean and like to minimize waste buildup. So my roundup crew consists of a emerald cat, a clown loach, and 2 rubber lip/nose plecos.
When I first set out with this tank i vowed to have a unique pleco..no more normal traditional plecos. So I started with a golden nugget pleco named appropriately Mr. Las Vegas...anyways he was really awesome, but chewed the crap out of my plants and ruined all of my life plants. He then died, and I find out that they are one of the more difficult plecos to care for....MEH
So I go to replace him and find the rubber plecos which are cute...and I am told they don't get gigantic only about 6 inches, so I get two and I think they will be perfect. Here we are 8 months later and they don't eat algae....I mean I am certain they do, but they don't have the apetite I desire :mad:, but on the plus side they don't chew my plants.
I still have algae build up...and I know algae is to be expected. I leave my lights on 12 hours a day for my plants, but it gets unsightly, and its yummy green algae, so what do I do...I want an exotic pleco with an apetite of a normal traditional pleco.
Any ideas?
Oh yea I can't go with the snails due to the clown loach which I got specifically to take care of my snail problem since I was bringing in so many live plants at one point.