Pleco with convicts

Dragonscales

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O.k. I am getting 4 convicts this week and am putting them by themselves and was wondering if I could maybe put a royal whiptail pleco with em? I know they're kinda agressive, especially when breeding, but I'd love to have a pleco, and have recently fallen in love with a royal whiptail who has a deformed tail. Any ideas? The tank will be big enough for everyone to grow up healthy....if they are compatible.
 
cons tend to pic of plecos..


And just where in hell did you find that pleco in ballerat????? i look all over melb and all i see in common plecs
 
yea, me and my gf recently went to Melbourne to look for a few fish after hearing on an Australian fish forum that the aquariums in Melb are "awesome", "fantastic" and "have the best range ever". To say the least, we were pretty disappointed. Tank and stand-wise the prices crap all over Ballarat, but fish-wise, well, yeah...prices and range aren't as "fantastic" as they're cracked up to be we found. Sure, a couple of the fish are cheaper than Ballarat, but not cheap enough to warrant a 3 hour drive to the Dandenongs to just buy fish. As far as range, all that they had that was any more of a bigger range was their cichlids, and even then, there wasn't a great deal more. Besides which, we can get them ordered in here in Ballarat if we wanted them. As far as we're concerned, if it wasn't for the 2 three foot tanks we picked up for 45 bucks each, with foam and cover glass; and the 2 stands for them, also around the 50 buck mark, it would have been a complete waste of time driving to Boronia and Belgrave. B.T.W the tank stands were in St. Albans. If you're interested in exactly where I got the tanks and stands just post again and I'll find up the addresses and post em up here for you. As for advice from aquariums there though, don't listen to a word some of them say in Melb, some dude tried telling my gf that an African tangerine cichlid is placid and it'd go fine in a community tank lol Against better judgement though, my gf took it home out of pity because it was being bullied by the other Tangerines whom were bigger in it's tank. No sooner was it home and into her tank, it decided to turn from the bullied into the bully, her poor fish still have a few shredded fins :blink: He took a nice long walk down lfs lane though....losing around three quarters of the price she paid for it in the process :byebye: But all in all, as far as fish buying around central vic goes, tanks and stands are a must buy in Melb, fish are a definate Ballarat or Geelong trip for us two.
 
damn dude that sucks! i hate that side of victoria there all a rip off.
Here in the west around St.albans and Sunshine area its cheap, really cheap.
 
Oh, as for the royal whiptail, a shop in Ballarat called Zoopermarket claims they can order them in for around the 22 dollar mark for small ones, but I haven't seen them in there before, not that I've looked for them before now either though. The dude in there said they sometimes get them in though and can also order them in if I wanted one. But then again, I'm special and the magical lfs people all love me lmao jk jk, am sure they'd do it for anyone :D
 

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