com pleco dead? after water change
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I had it in a 29g growin it out to be in my 55g, it is with a rubber lip pleco and barbs and cory's, They have all been in there for a long time. I have feed the pleco's alge wafers every other day or so, and I have a cheap regent 60 gallon filter on it. the flter works great, the pleco was on the glass for a while before I found it dead. I hope this helps. Thanks
ermmmm.......'ol Hypostomus pl*costomus eats a lot of things - algae being only one. Probably died of starvation like the others. Don't believe it ? - try a diet of lettuce for the rest of your life.
You may want to take a look at this before you get another http://www.aquahobby.com/gallery/gpleco2.html
I know a lot of Pl*cos are algae only - but the common Pl*cs eat flake - wafers - prawns, a variety of veg - anything going basically. No wonder the poor thing was on the glass - probably trying to eat it.
You may want to take a look at this before you get another http://www.aquahobby.com/gallery/gpleco2.html
I know a lot of Pl*cos are algae only - but the common Pl*cs eat flake - wafers - prawns, a variety of veg - anything going basically. No wonder the poor thing was on the glass - probably trying to eat it.
you starved your fish.... I hold myself to blame.. I should have said something.... cry
purple. Hes gonna say that he had 2 commons in a 20 gallon for like 5 years and thats all he fed. But he had goldfish with them... and they are so messy that there was plenty left over for them to eat.
Um. I got thinking too. You dont have covers around your heater. I dont know. But wasnt he hideing on those for awile there. He could have died of burns.... I bet there was a amonia/nitrite spike when you added those coreys. But I dont think that would have killed the plec. Would have gotten the coreys first I would think.
More than likely it was just your raping that killed the fish.. or maybe you were playing your 2-pack too much and it died from hearing the same song over and over again... I know I would have killed myself.
Lev
purple. Hes gonna say that he had 2 commons in a 20 gallon for like 5 years and thats all he fed. But he had goldfish with them... and they are so messy that there was plenty left over for them to eat.
Um. I got thinking too. You dont have covers around your heater. I dont know. But wasnt he hideing on those for awile there. He could have died of burns.... I bet there was a amonia/nitrite spike when you added those coreys. But I dont think that would have killed the plec. Would have gotten the coreys first I would think.
More than likely it was just your raping that killed the fish.. or maybe you were playing your 2-pack too much and it died from hearing the same song over and over again... I know I would have killed myself.
Lev
Water changes should be around 15%-25%, which means in a 29 gallon should be 4 to over 7 gallons. But I would think it would have gotten to the other fish first. I had a plec a while ago that just died after a little under a month. I determined it wasn't conditions because the Blue Rams (as sensitive as they are) and all of the other fish never showed the first sign of stress. I fed everything from algea wafers to cucumbers, lettuce & carrots to shinking shrimp pellots. But wouldn't eat them. He ended up starving himself to death, not because I didn't feed him, but for one reason or another, he wasn't eating what I was feeding. I don't know if something else was stressing him and causing him not to eat or what.
Another quetstion, do you have driftwood in your tank. Most plecos need driftwood in the tank....
Another quetstion, do you have driftwood in your tank. Most plecos need driftwood in the tank....
So - you treat your fish better than you treat your wife - and this is the 3rd one you've had die on you huh? - lol - fair enough
Seriously though - sometimes Pl*cos just refuse to eat, often when first aquired. Not unusual to have one starve to death out of stubborness. Next time you choose a fish - chuck a prawn in the lfs tank - you want the first fish that gets it.
Seriously though - sometimes Pl*cos just refuse to eat, often when first aquired. Not unusual to have one starve to death out of stubborness. Next time you choose a fish - chuck a prawn in the lfs tank - you want the first fish that gets it.
