Hi - been keeping aquariums since the seventies, have always loved plecos, just never really looked into them, bothered to learn much more about them than how to feed them & keep them happy. But I've got these ancistrus temminckiis (spelling?) that are just too much fun and overflowing with personality (little tiny creatures that muscle up to the bottom feeder disks and back everybody down, even creatures four times their size, until they've filled themselves up) and I want to know more about them.
I used to have a clown pleco - probably ten years ago - that was just gorgeous. Sometime maybe (if they're compatible with these little speckled bruisers) I'd love to find a few more of those.
Everybody thinks my big display tank is boring. All bottom feeders: the temminckiis, a platoon of gorgeous brochis splendens and a bunch of golden bridgesii (I guess they're diffusas now, name changes all the time) and planted so thick with african fern you really only see half of everybody at any one time. I also have a group of harlequin rasboras swimming around in the middle water, looking handsome in their black and copper jackets, but everybody's very subtle.
I have another twelve tanks downstairs but that's mostly given over to guppy culture, so not really germaine to the pleco discussion.
I used to have a clown pleco - probably ten years ago - that was just gorgeous. Sometime maybe (if they're compatible with these little speckled bruisers) I'd love to find a few more of those.
Everybody thinks my big display tank is boring. All bottom feeders: the temminckiis, a platoon of gorgeous brochis splendens and a bunch of golden bridgesii (I guess they're diffusas now, name changes all the time) and planted so thick with african fern you really only see half of everybody at any one time. I also have a group of harlequin rasboras swimming around in the middle water, looking handsome in their black and copper jackets, but everybody's very subtle.
I have another twelve tanks downstairs but that's mostly given over to guppy culture, so not really germaine to the pleco discussion.
