Pleco Ate My Fish? My Fish Are Gone
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Could an aquarium pleco eat your other fish? The answer is yes. These fish crave protein and starve to death on people all the time. If you have a fish that has died, the pleco will try to eat the fish. I highly advise you feed your pleco these high quality veggie rounds. If your pleco catfish is starving it will feed on other fish!
Omega One Veggie Food: http://amzn.to/2yUTeSj
Feed these veggie rounds right before your lights get turned off. Plecos are nocturnal.
Getting a lot of questions regarding "fish missing" and the Pleco is the only one to blame. haha! What is happening is your fish are actually already dead when the Pleco eats them. You can't blame the Plecostomus for eating a good meaty meal can you? At least the pleco is helping you do clean up duty.
Everyone was super curious about the new guy today :) After a recent pleco on goldfish attack, I decide it was better off if he found a new home (I inherited him with one of the tanks I bought and he only recently became aggressive) Hoping this little albino ramshorn will pick up where he left off! I have one in my oranda tank and he does a fabulous job of keeping it spotless! Anyone else keep one of these with their fishies? Also, on the topic of snails, I found a hitchhiker pest snail today in some of my new plants. I immediately put him in my puffer tank, but am concerned that there might be more. Will my goldfish eat them? Will it hurt them if they do? I keep a pretty close eye on my tanks, and will be sure to remove any more that I find, but any input is helpful! Thanks!
http://plecostomus.org/pleco-ate-fish/
So cute! Do they breed like crazy though? I almost got 2 due to the size of my tank, but didn't want it to be overrun by snails. I was advices to get bamboo shrimp, and in the pet shop they are bigger but in tropical tanks.. In the goldfish cold water, they have small medium ghost shrimp, would they be okay? I've tried baby plecs but they died, Atleast shrimps can get bottom food on the sand? I'm worried about my new tank being to big, and can shrimps stand salt treatments?
Bloody hell guys I didn't even get to put my phone down, thanks for the quick replies! 😃
I've had tiny goldfish that they haven't eaten, I want something else in the tank as there's so much room.. I thought of little schooling fish, but they will take up to many gallons, and a shrimp is just a little addition? Is that a no go to any shrimps? https://youtu.be/Zr7eJBJK15Q
the bamboo shrimps in the shop are in tropical water, how would I get them to cold, I've got a heater that came with my big tank, would it be better to heat the tank and then just turn it off so it gradually reduces? I wanted a small breed plec, and I qt them and they stay alive and as soon as I put them in the tank they just die! 🤔 so I thought it was lack of food as there is no guaranteeing it? Plecos and goldfish aren't compatible, so I wouldn't be too concerned about adding them😊 they also generally require more gallons than a goldie. https://plecostomus.org/attack/
How many goldies and what size tank are we talking about here? I started out with three tiny fish in a 75 gal, which for me was fine, because I knew they'd grow into it.
Also if it looks bare, try adding decorations or plants. plecos and goldfish dont mix, if your pleco doesnt have enough food besides algae it will attack your goldfish I often add ghost shrimp to my tank. I think they are eventually eaten, but they hang on for a long time. Those suckers can dart out of a goldfish's mouth!
However, my tank is heavily planted. It wouldn't work in a tank that doesn't have hiding places. I like the shrimp because they can get into places that the goldfish can't.
I had cherry shrimp in a small tank, and there were so many that I decided to add some to my previous goldfish tank. I didn't see them much and figured they weren't doing well. But when I emptied that tank because I was moving, I found at least 100 cherries. It was amazing. They were living under the driftwood.
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