Hello!
Please call me Gin. I live in Denver, Colorado and currently have one pleco. He isn't the first I've had, but it's been over a year since I've had fish. I've had my pleco for three days almost. He is a Pterygoplichthys (L023) I think. He wasn't happy with me this morning but I got a few stats on him as follows:
12.5 inches from nose to tip of bottom tail fin (which is longer than the top one)
12 spines on dorsal
245 grams
With as unhappy as he is now, I may have to sleep with one eye open tonight.
Anyway, he is currently in a 75 gallon tank, filled to about 65 gallons, with a 5 inch oscar, two western painted turtles, and a sideneck turtle. It's a little cramped in there but I hadn't planned on the two fish. Browsing through Craigslist the other day I saw an ad for a free oscar. It turns out the guy who owned the fish accidentally broke the tank while cleaning it and the little cichlid was stuck in a bucket as there was no other tank for him to go in. From what I understand, the guy had another tank but I'm guessing it was a community tank with small fish where the oscar would have quickly eaten everyone. The guy offered me the pleco in addition to the oscar and I said okay because plecos are such good little poo-machines. I couldn't just let the poor oscar live in a bucket and people typically aren't buying them up, so I had to offer my tank.
Anyway, things are cramped at the moment but every seems to be getting along with the exception of the pleco now possibly planning my murder.
I joined mainly because I need help planning my new turtle tank, which will include the pleco. That's for another thread though. I just wanted to say hello here first. So, hello!
Please call me Gin. I live in Denver, Colorado and currently have one pleco. He isn't the first I've had, but it's been over a year since I've had fish. I've had my pleco for three days almost. He is a Pterygoplichthys (L023) I think. He wasn't happy with me this morning but I got a few stats on him as follows:
12.5 inches from nose to tip of bottom tail fin (which is longer than the top one)
12 spines on dorsal
245 grams
With as unhappy as he is now, I may have to sleep with one eye open tonight.
Anyway, he is currently in a 75 gallon tank, filled to about 65 gallons, with a 5 inch oscar, two western painted turtles, and a sideneck turtle. It's a little cramped in there but I hadn't planned on the two fish. Browsing through Craigslist the other day I saw an ad for a free oscar. It turns out the guy who owned the fish accidentally broke the tank while cleaning it and the little cichlid was stuck in a bucket as there was no other tank for him to go in. From what I understand, the guy had another tank but I'm guessing it was a community tank with small fish where the oscar would have quickly eaten everyone. The guy offered me the pleco in addition to the oscar and I said okay because plecos are such good little poo-machines. I couldn't just let the poor oscar live in a bucket and people typically aren't buying them up, so I had to offer my tank.
Anyway, things are cramped at the moment but every seems to be getting along with the exception of the pleco now possibly planning my murder.
I joined mainly because I need help planning my new turtle tank, which will include the pleco. That's for another thread though. I just wanted to say hello here first. So, hello!
