 Protecting plants from a hungry pleco?
My common pleco (sooon to be traded to my LFS) has acquired a taste for the roots of my swords. I used to have three, but now have 1 and 2 leaves with a lot of plants floating. The pleco has also dislodged wisteria and water sprite and made a mess of my anacharis. The tank has a gravel substrate (Petsmart knows nothing about planted tanks) that I think may make it easier to dislodge the plants. Would sand take care of this problem? I supplement the plants with fertilizer tabs and will build a CO2 system as soon as I get a liter soda bottle.
I think teh best solution would be to get rid of the pleco, but I plan on replacing it with a rubberlip or bristlenose pleco, so I want to make sure my plants are safe.
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How much would it cost to install a 5000 gallon tank in my backyard?
47g tall planted
guppies, platies, 1 neon swordtail+ fry, 1 red swordtail, 7 harlequin rasboras, 2 common plecos, snail population explosion
Plants: anacharis, java fern, moneywort, anubias, wisteria, water sprite, red and green temple, amazon sword, unidentified sword, unidentified
10g
male betta
10g QT
white mickey mouse platy, gold twin barred platy, marigold variatus, redtail black variatus |