My Latest Addition

[kev350d]

Bought him today for £17, extremely cute 4" LDA33 Snowball.

Sorry about the pic it was hiding in the darkest deepest spot in the tank..

 

[LisaLQ]

Ooooh he's lovely - congratulations (and a great pic too - I know how hard some plecs make it to take pics of them!)

 

[Bozza]

hes beautifull. wish i cauld find something like that here but most plecos are hard 2 find here.

 

[kev350d]

Just purchased a nice example L177 Queen Nugget (Pick it up tomorrow).

 

[LisaLQ]

Not heard them called that before, they're one of the three species of Gold Nuggets It might be worth reading into gold nugget care as they're notoriously difficult to acclimatise after a move. Do you know how long the LFS has had them in for? It's best to buy ones that have been established for a few weeks after their trip overseas, so that you dont get stuck with one that may die early on from starvation (it's really common in gold nuggets you see as their gut flora dies off during transit). Also remember that unlike many plecs, they are omnivores so will need some meat/fish protein (shrimp/squid/mussell pellets for example) on top of their normal veg and pleco wafers. They also need highly oxygenated water, so setting up an airstone or two is always handy - or if you have an internal filter/powerhead handy, set it up with the bubbles flowing - they love to sit in the oncoming bubbles

Edited to add - it might be a little territorial with your LDA33 as they're both baryancistrus, so make sure there's a couple of caves in your tank (nuggets need caves as they're pretty shy and like their own space).

 

[stang1]

He's beautiful Kev!

 

[QuotheRaven]

as Daffy Duck has said...Da Rool Da Rool......(obscure reference...???)

Gourgeous Pleco and it is a very good pic

 

[kev350d]

Not heard them called that before, they're one of the three species of Gold Nuggets It might be worth reading into gold nugget care as they're notoriously difficult to acclimatise after a move. Do you know how long the LFS has had them in for? It's best to buy ones that have been established for a few weeks after their trip overseas, so that you dont get stuck with one that may die early on from starvation (it's really common in gold nuggets you see as their gut flora dies off during transit). Also remember that unlike many plecs, they are omnivores so will need some meat/fish protein (shrimp/squid/mussell pellets for example) on top of their normal veg and pleco wafers. They also need highly oxygenated water, so setting up an airstone or two is always handy - or if you have an internal filter/powerhead handy, set it up with the bubbles flowing - they love to sit in the oncoming bubbles

Edited to add - it might be a little territorial with your LDA33 as they're both baryancistrus, so make sure there's a couple of caves in your tank (nuggets need caves as they're pretty shy and like their own space).

Ive acclimatised him over the course of 2 hours with the drip method and a syringe, lfs keeps them in a discus tank with ph of 7.2 and a temp of 29° this almost matches my conditons perfect, he has had the fish some weeks and are in awesome fettle. He's munchin already on a little cucumber and beefheart mix pellets "Not a small example by any stance as he's easy 4.5"-5". Hes at the front as we speak with all fins erect and a lovelly round belly but i'll monitor his behavior.. My current filtration is providing huge amounts of O2 into the tank so all should be fine in that department.

 

[chardonnay1000]

wot a gorgeous little plec, very nice indeed, I want one 2

 

[Bex]

We've got a Snowball and they are awesome plecs. Ours is incredibly active too, he's always out and about and even challenges our bigger plecs for food!

Yours is lovely! Great buy!

 

[smithrc]

you can see ours (named Spot) feeding with our common in the image on the right in my sig

They seem to be a nice friendly plec - ours is always out