I have two of them. One is brown with dark brown dots. The other is light brown with dark brown stripes. Do these plecos get big and if so how long does it take for them to get to be over 10 inches. I have had them for about 9 months and they are both about 2 1/2 inches long. they are in a 20 Long tank.
2006-10-31 11:51:45 · 6 answers · asked by CAPTAIN GENIUS !! 5 in Pets ➔ Fish
The second pleco has thick bands on it.
2006-11-01 09:36:50 · update #1
The one with stripes is most likely a clown pleco. Sometimes they get mixed in with the regular plecos. They don't get much larger than 6".
The brown one with dark brown spots is a common pleco. With proper care he will eventually reach 24", yes, 2 feet.
2006-10-31 14:48:12 · answer #1 · answered by 8 In the corner 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
www.planetcatfish.com has some wonderful information on thousands of catfish, including plecos, and is very helpful for identification purposes. Depending on what you mean by stripes (thin stripes or thicker bands) the second one could be a clown as some have suggested, or possibly even a tiger, but there are also many commons that are dark with thick, lighter colored bands. The first one is most likely a common. Clowns and tigers generally stay small, below 6", but commons reach massive sizes; there have been many reports of commons in home aquariums reaching sizes in excess of two feet long. Either way, they will most likely need tanks much larger than 20 gallons in the near future, for the large amounts of waste plecos in general produce.
2006-10-31 18:32:25 · answer #2 · answered by Serian 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you could't get a single loach, very practically all of them are very social shoaling fish that must be in shoals of a minimum of 5. Clown loaches advance to twelve inches, so attempt the assasin snail, yet dont forget to feed it carnivore ingredients after the snails are long gone. Angel fish % a greater taller tank than that, a minimum of double that length. mollies advance to six inches each, they're fin nippy, and thrive in a Ph of seven.5+ Angels ought to by no skill be housed with fin nippers and % a Ph of seven.0 or much less very few dwarf pleco species can stay in a 20 gallon tank. the only ones i know of incorporate candy stripped, clown, and the actual $75 zebra pleco, Otos are very comfortable, they must be in shoals of 5+, many are hand caught.
2016-11-26 21:17:01 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you have picture, it would be great. The first one sounds like the common pleco... if they live long enough, they can get to be 14 inches... and the second one, isgoing to be 4-7 inches..
the stripped ones don't grow that big.
2006-10-31 12:39:40 · answer #4 · answered by professorminh 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try looking at these sites. There are so many varieties of plecos, they all don't even names, go by L000 numbers.
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/scateg.cfm?pCatId=837
http://www.plecofanatics.com/
2006-10-31 16:44:52 · answer #5 · answered by tikitiki 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1st one is a gold nugget or something like that. Not sue about the 2nd.
liveaquira.com might help, not sure spelling is right. drsfosersmith.com has the right link if that one doesnt work
2006-10-31 11:57:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋