New Fish

[christine]

OKay, so my sister's friend is getting rid of her fish and wants to give tham to me Yay! But my parents are all finicky about too many animals...blah blah We only have my 3 fishies 2 ferrets and a garter snake, and soon a ball python ... Anyway..I really do have a question.If I do get these fish, Im not sure what the dimensions of the tank are but she said it was 20 gal. With a foot long pleco and a loach that's about three inches long..( she says she hasn't seen it for a while though...what does that mean? ) Does this sound like it could possibly get overcrowded very soon? I read loaches get up to 6 in and with a 12 in pleco.... I'm not sure they'd be too thrilled with a new tank

 

[Yano]

The pleco I think is already too big, a 20gallon is 24inches long, correct?

 

[Becca]

All Glass's 20-Long is noted as: 30 1/4 x 12 1/2 x 12 3/4, so I'd say for a 20 regular, that sounds about right.

As for Plecos, I've heard/seem commons get to be a foot or longer. Loaches - I've heard, but not seen, get to be about 8-10 inches. Worse comes to worse, you can trade those fish in for something else you're more interested in.

 

[Doggfather]

If they're clown loaches (most likely) they can grow to 1'