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Bristlenose is a good bet, especially for a first time loricariidae keeper. They're pretty hardy. Many other pleco species are not. For hardiness, you can also try the L104, or clown pleco. It's circa 4". But you probably won't ever see it. There are many others which stay small. I have four...

It can't be hard to create a Forth and Clyde Canal biotope. Still, darkened water with plenty of aquatic plants, Tennant's cans, and shopping carts. Apparently perch, bream, pike, trout, some eels, and a few other species (astoundingly) live in it.

That sounds awesome. I wish I had that kind of space (and money). My Orinoco plecos (L199) live in the council estate of a 125L Fluval Roma with a bunch of powerheads. That sounds like a fishy country mansion.

Hopefully other loricariidae owners can learn from my sad experience. Yesterday night, my lovely, healthy active rubberlip pleco dropped dead unexpectedly, and my female bristlenose pleco has been unusually subdued and lethargic. Water parameters all copacetic, and their tankmates are fine...

Cool. Only other concern I have are the powerheads. Are they stupid enough to crawl through the slats on the sides of the powerheads? If they've done that, the plecos will have had diced shrimp.

Yes.

If I wanted more, I would safe enough to get them? I didn't intend on only having four. The LFS was in short supply, and it's all they had. The wee shrimp must be popular.

A couple weeks ago, I added four red cherry shrimp to my L199 tank. Lots of people on the ZebraPleco forums have seemingly kept cherry shrimp in Hypancistrus breeding tanks, and I've never had shrimp but always fancied some. The only other fish in the tank are pygmy corys and three otos. On...

All my plecos love courgettes (bristlenose, C. formosae, H.furunculus, not all in the same tank). I don't bother blanching them. The plecos mutilate them as it is, and if they were softer, I would be chasing even more courgette pieces around the tank. If yours don't start eating them straight...

Yeah, you were told incorrect info. From a fish shop? Would not be the first time. Those don't reach 6". https://www.planetcatfish.com/common/species.php?species_id=318. If it wasn't living in the conditions I've described in my first post, then it probably wasn't 100% healthy, and as you say...

I stick a net over my Python so fish can't get on the giant waterslide of death. Had a couple close calls.

Agree with AilyCN. Chaetostoma formosae is a really sensitive fish that requires very specific conditions. They live in rivers in the uplands of the Amazon, which are cool and fast flowing. That means your tank needs very clean, highly-oxygenated water, like AilyNC said, and there should be...

I have two raphaels. They'll be fine with large corys like sterbais. Mine share the tank with a few cory species (c. carlae, c. schulzeii, and CW045) and black phantom and rummy nose tetras. As adults, those tetras are fine, but I am sure the raphaels would eat juveniles. So buy adult-sized...

Please, post the pic on PlanetCatfish or the pleco FB group. Look at the markings on your fish compared to the photo I posted. The markings are quite different, plus your fish seems to have a longer, narrower head. If the LFS labeled it as a clown pleco, it might be a similar species, but you'll...

Clown plecos *need* driftwood. It's not optional. And you need to make sure you're buying soft wood and not a hard wood like mopani. I'm not 100% sure that's a clown pleco. It does not look like any Panaqolis maccus I have ever seen. This is what they normally look like (pic from the...

Cherry barbs are indestructible. I've tried to kill mine multiple times.

I don't know how to fix anaerobic pockets that might be festering under the sand. Try Googling. It will turn up answers from this and other forums. I've found that if you can't get a useful or direct answer by asking a question yourself, Google will find someone on some forum in the wilds of the...

I run airstones 24/7 in all four of my tanks. Two of the tanks have powerheads as well as lots of filtration. As I understand it (and I'm not expert), increasing flow and surface agitation can help with oxygenation and prevent pockets of bad stuff building up by keeping water moving throughout...

My c. trilineatus were bought from the same shop at different times. Only other thing I got is oxygen levels. Is there enough surface disturbance and flow in your tank? Could there be anaerobic pockets somewhere? Do you vacuum the substrate and are they on sand? I've got powerheads everywhere...

I had a shoal of c. trilineatus that exhibited similar symptoms. One by one, they got lethargic, would lie at odd angles or fail to swim, and then drop dead. At first, I tried treating it with various things -- anti-fungal, anti-bacterial, malachite green -- but if you don't even know what...

110L corner tank contains cherry barbs, green laser corys, one Bolivian ram, one clown pleco, two nerites. Nitrites/ates = 0. PH 6.8. Ammonia = maybe not as yellow in the test tube as I would like, but these colour gradations are vague. Really soft water because Scotland. One of the nerites...

With your set-up, a single sex group would be ideal and fairer on the fish. Because they care for their young, they can get stressed when there are things around that want to eat the fry/eggs, which includes tetras larger than neons and corys. And yeah, they might all live in the same river...

If you don't care about breeding, you could get two or three of the same sex. At one point, I had a couple females living with killifish, c. habrosus, c. pygmaeus, cherry barbs, and some otos, and they were never any trouble. They're only aggressive when guarding eggs/fry.

The black skirts can be fin nippers, so I would be mindful of that as well.

I wouldn't say A. borellii 'prefer' cooler water. Most of the breeding reports on apistogramma.com (the forum for apisto nerds, so worth investigating) suggest that people are spawning them at 25/26C. But they can cope with it. Seriouslyfish and other sites say that 20/22C is at the low end of...

It's Mikrogeophagus ramirezi, the German ram, which needs an elevated temperature. Bolivians, Mikrogeophagus altispinosus, are fine at 24-25C. I suggested them because in my experience anyway, they aren't unhappy as lone fish and don't cause any major hassle in a community tank. Once you have a...

I have a single male Bolivian ram living with CW009. That seems absolutely fine. He doesn't bother the corys and occasionally chases male cherry barbs, but they deserve it. Ram doesn't seem too bothered being the only fish of his species in the tank. They're actually a pain to pair up because...

Corys should be able to handle current. I'm blasting two of my tanks with powerheads. I have corys in both (c. pygmaeus and c. habrosus in one; c. schulzeii, c. carlae, and CW045 in the other), and they're fine. They can sit still on the bottom without any trouble. I'd keep an eye on that one...

I've got a male and two female A. Borellii. The male isn't quite mature yet (I got him about eight months after I got the females... it took a while to find a male). Once he's a full fledged adult, I'm hoping they breed. They live with some dwarf pencilfish (Nannostomus marginatus). I was...

We're still good in the 125. The plecos are relatively sociable for Hypancistrus species and scurry out of their caves at feeding time. Hopefully, they are different sexes. They're still juveniles, so tough to accurately sex.

Had five white panda corys (*not* albinos) which didn't do well at all. They'd been linebred to the nines, obviously. I lost all but one. I didn't feel like buying more pandas after reading about the issues with them, so it lives with a shoal of CW009.

Sorry to read this. I found Byron to be one of the informative and knowledgeable posters here. I hope he kicks this thing in the butt and comes back soon!

I have a Fluval 240 permanently running a 307 and a U4. When I upgraded it from a 125, I added as much of the old media as I could (the 307 had been running in the 125) and did daily water changes for about a week.

As of tomorrow, it will have been a week since I started this thread, and so far, no casualties and I haven't seen any ich on the tank's inhabitants for quite a few days now.

Might try that with the plants. I've done fish-in cycles of a couple new display tanks with cherry barbs, but they are indestructible compared to plecos. It's also possible that it wasn't my quarantine tank at all -- the pleco could have come in with an issue, or got injured arguing with the...

Some of you may remember me posting about an ich outbreak in my 125, likely brought in by an L471. It took out two L260s and all five killifish. Six or so weeks later, with no further evidence of ich, I decided to restock and rescape the tank, this time with the intentions of making it into a...