So you want to keep a Pleco?

[TankMaster]

Just take a look at this Black Adonis Pleco. It's clearly bigger than 3ft long and a 4ft tank will be too small to house this fish. Do you still want to keep a pleco?:bigsmile:

http://www.thejump.net/id/more-fish/Black-Adonis-Pleco.jpg


Here's more

http://www.bowfinanglers.com/images/nickv_pleco_072806.jpg

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:uIjiDFAEg2-I7M:http://www.classicalvalues.com/plecostomus.jpg&t=1




TM

[Q89]

That is why I only keep the smaller types. The pleco in the first picture is huge!!:eek:

[Vis]

Hi tankmaster can you maybe ad a profile to this thread. Long overdue since everybody always just want to buy the little sucker fish in the LPS.

[TankMaster]

Hi tankmaster can you maybe ad a profile to this thread. Long overdue since everybody always just want to buy the little sucker fish in the LPS.

Hi Vis

Profiles would be a great idea except that they are species dependent. Not all plecos grow to be 3ft long :)

TM

[oscar freak]

and where as certain fish do get very big it is highly unlikely the majority of kept aquarium fish will ever reach their natural adult size.

[Vis]

Profiles would be a great idea except that they are species dependent. Not all plecos grow to be 3ft long

What then about the ones that does as these are usually the ones in the LPS.

[TankMaster]

I agree with oscar freak. I highly doubt that this will be the case of extreme growth however I know someone who has a Orange marble pleco from 3cm and has grown to 12cm in 5 months.

TM

[mydummyname]

i think generally the common pleco, orange marble, gibbiceps tend to go to about 40cm max when in home aquarium..

but i think that also how fast and how big they grow also depends on what and how you feed them, if you keep their very diet strict, and limit their quantity a bit food they tend to grow a bit slower..

i've heard that if you limit their food they release a hormone in the water that inhibits their growth, but i dont know how true that is..

[DS DG]

A friend of myne threw a pleco in a koi pond and its bigger then some fish.................He lives in Baleto so it could be true..........

[mydummyname]

i would think its bigger than most fish???

lol

[shihr]

we caught the same type of plecco as in the second pic in Taiwan on my uncles farm near a stream! it was about 60cm! and dam it was pretty ugly

[DS DG]

hahaha, its bigger than the koi :D