Newbie with 125 litre tank

[Negseven]

Hi, just starting in aquatics, getting 125 litre tank soon, and looking to get some nice plecos to finally go in tank, how many do you think I could get in the tank?
Thanks for your input

 

[Colin_T]

Hi and welcome to the forum

What is the GH (general hardness), KH (carbonate hardness) and pH of your water supply?
This information can usually be obtained from your water supply company's website or by telephoning them. If they can't help you, take a glass full of tap water to the local pet shop and get them to test it for you. Write the results down (in numbers) when they do the tests. And ask them what the results are in (eg: ppm, dGH, or something else).

What type of plecos were you interested in?
There are a lot of them and some are small but others get way too big for an aquarium.

 

[Wills]

Hi welcome to the forum if you are after a pleco tank pick something small like a Bristlenose or Bulldogs and set up a group - possibly able to breed them. Or if you wanted to go for something fancier things like Leopard Frogs or Flash Plecos, Blue Panaques are very nice too (would probably be top of my list).

You may want to keep a small school of tetras with them too, maybe something simple like Ember of Green Neons, too small to be a risk to any young or eggs but schooling to provide a bit of confidence to the plecos. Sometimes fish kept without smaller fish get stressed and hide more as they assume there is something near by eating the small fish.

Wills

 

[Negseven]

Hi and welcome to the forum

What is the GH (general hardness), KH (carbonate hardness) and pH of your water supply?
This information can usually be obtained from your water supply company's website or by telephoning them. If they can't help you, take a glass full of tap water to the local pet shop and get them to test it for you. Write the results down (in numbers) when they do the tests. And ask them what the results are in (eg: ppm, dGH, or something else).

What type of plecos were you interested in?
There are a lot of them and some are small but others get way too big for an aquarium.

Hi welcome to the forum if you are after a pleco tank pick something small like a Bristlenose or Bulldogs and set up a group - possibly able to breed them. Or if you wanted to go for something fancier things like Leopard Frogs or Flash Plecos, Blue Panaques are very nice too (would probably be top of my list).

You may want to keep a small school of tetras with them too, maybe something simple like Ember of Green Neons, too small to be a risk to any young or eggs but schooling to provide a bit of confidence to the plecos. Sometimes fish kept without smaller fish get stressed and hide more as they assume there is something near by eating the small fish.

Wills

Hi, yep I have seen a blue panaque , very nice, good idea about tetras

 

[Essjay]

Colin's point about your water hardness is important. Both plecs and tetras are soft water fish and if you have hard water you would have the choice of keeping hard water fish or altering your tap water to make it softer.

Look on your water company's website for hardness. If it's Essex & Suffolk Water (your location is Essex ), click/tap on Your local area in the menu at the top of their website, enter your address then once it's loaded scroll down the page. You need the numbers for calcium carbonate and German degrees.

 

[Negseven]

Colin's point about your water hardness is important. Both plecs and tetras are soft water fish and if you have hard water you would have the choice of keeping hard water fish or altering your tap water to make it softer.

Look on your water company's website for hardness. If it's Essex & Suffolk Water (your location is Essex ), click/tap on Your local area in the menu at the top of their website, enter your address then once it's loaded scroll down the page. You need the numbers for calcium carbonate and German degrees.

Thanks Essjay

 

[Negseven]

Hi and welcome to the forum

What is the GH (general hardness), KH (carbonate hardness) and pH of your water supply?
This information can usually be obtained from your water supply company's website or by telephoning them. If they can't help you, take a glass full of tap water to the local pet shop and get them to test it for you. Write the results down (in numbers) when they do the tests. And ask them what the results are in (eg: ppm, dGH, or something else).

What type of plecos were you interested in?
There are a lot of them and some are small but others get way too big for an aquarium.

Thanks Colin

 

[emeraldking]

Hi there,
Welcome to TFF...
If I were you I would do some research on those plecos. For there are multiple kinds of them with their own needs.