Pleco's Truly Are The Most Abused Fish

[FWFishLover]

I know this is just rambling but...
This is absolutely disgusting!
http/www.petco.com/product/101096/Plecostomus.aspx?CoreCat=Freshwater%20Fish
this says that plecos get to 24" but their minimum tank size is 10g (38liters i think)

 

[Truck]

No, they didn't say the minimum tank size is 10 gallons, it says 10+ gallons which is different, very misleading I know.

But rather than come here and complain, why not email them or write to them, so they can rectify this?

 

[hamfist]

minimum tank size is 10 gallons ....... 10+ gallons

I thought these meant exacty the same ?

BTW , couldn't access the link for some reason.

 

[chrisbassist]

Hmm, misleading, maybe it means that some plecos reach that length whilst there are some that you can keep in 10g?

Either way I think you've still got a long way to go to beat the abuse that goldfish suffer. My daughters nursery has 2 in a half gallon tank with filter. We're getting them a bigger tank and filter but we can't afford to get the size they really ought to have.

 

[Truck]

minimum tank size is 10 gallons ....... 10+ gallons

I thought these meant exacty the same ?

BTW , couldn't access the link for some reason.

10+ means more than 10.

 

[orange shark]

Whenever i see 10 plus i read it as 10 or more...

 

[hamfist]

Whenever i see 10 plus i read it as 10 or more...

me too.

 

[angelfishguy]

Whenever i see 10 plus i read it as 10 or more...

me too.

ditto 10+ means 10 upwards

 

[MrPandaram]

Whenever i see 10 plus i read it as 10 or more...

me too.

ditto 10+ means 10 upwards

yep.. i dont see any problams there..... not misleading at all...

 

[meguro]

That link seems to only be talking about one species of fish. In which case saying 10+ gallons is rather bad because people will think 10 gallons is fine for that specific fish. Or 15 gallons. Or 23.314159 gallons. And I disagree with that.

Now if the link was talking about plecs in the sense of the group of fish commonly called that, it would be an entirely different story.

 

[spectrum]

Saying 10+ is pretty much the same as saying that 10 is minimum isn't it? Which is incorrect for a potentially twenty four inch fish, no matter what the species (I haven't actually seen the petco thing cos the link is dead, i'm basing this on what you guys put)

 

[FWFishLover]

Whenever i see 10 plus i read it as 10 or more...

me too.

same