What Pleco Do I Want?

[CBBP]

I need something not amazingly big preferably something below 6".
This pleco must 100% NOT suck slime coats.
Must NOT be aggressive towards other bother feeders.
I prefer if it would eat many types of algea and not just brown, algea like thread algea and such like an SAE.
MUST eat off plant leaves.

Please give me my options

 

[smithrc]

none

plecs are teritorial and will defend their territory especially if food is incolved

most smaller plecs lean more towards a meaty diet.

Bristle noses might suit - but they wont eat hair algae / thread etc.

 

[CBBP]

mm.. how bother some.. which will eat thread/hair algea? and how bad would they fit cories for food? would they not fight if there is enoguh food?

 

[halfbloodprincess]

Well my clown pleco is fine with my corys and yoyo loaches, they actually hang out all the time. But I am not sure about what alage they eat.

 

[CBBP]

clowns like wood do they not?

 

[smithrc]

very few fish eat thread/hair algea. and no plecs that I know of...

 

[CBBP]

well not thread.. but like.. it grows in a 3d form.. usually off the edges of leaves and such..

 

[smithrc]

beard algae... again - your looking for the wrong fish.

Algae indicates a problem with the levels in the tank... locate and address that and you will get rid of the algae.

 

[CBBP]

yeah.. it is more like.. not enoguh fast growing plants haha

 

[dwarfgourami]

My amano shrimps eat hair algae.

 

[CBBP]

but to BS tetras eat shrimp? haha

 

[smithrc]

but to BS tetras eat shrimp? haha

in english?

 

[CBBP]

will Black skirt tetras and other tetras of that shape and size eat shrimp? will a Betta or glowlight tetras eat shrimp ?

 

[xJake]

What size fish are you planning on keeping it with? If the fish aren't too big I would suggest getting 5-6 otos instead. They grow to a max of 2" and will eat most types of algae (mine even nibble at the green spot algae on the back glass of my tank).

 

[dwarfgourami]

will Black skirt tetras and other tetras of that shape and size eat shrimp? will a Betta or glowlight tetras eat shrimp ?

If you get shrimps of a decent size- and stick to amanos rather than cherrys- I wouldn't have thought so. These are critters that bop my platies on the nose and steal the food out of their mouths.