Plecostomus Catfish Care - Aquarium Bad Ideas
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The aquarium pleco fish or also known as the plecostomus Catfish is pretty easy to care for. Feed them some algae wafers after the lights go off (because they’re nocturnal). These are good wafers. Here is a link:
Pleco Wafer Food: http://amzn.to/2BfWSuX
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What do you think of pearl gourami fish? Amazing. Great center piece fish. Gets a long with my guppies and platies and barbs. Kept in a five gallon planted. Nibbles on my plants but doesn’t destroy them. They will eat guppy fry and even small guppys like endlers but they dont mess with any of my large fancy/common guppys. http://plecostomus.org/attack/
A percentage of dwarf gouramis are diseased and don't ever do well, I've always been unlucky with my selection and I've never had any that have lasted more than a couple of months. Beautiful fish though! Fantastic fish. Trained them to spit, like they were archer fish, while they were in quarantine.
They were fantastic when they went into my main tank and lived for a couple of months. Unfortunately one got dropsy and passed away and a month or so later the second one followed suit. Have sworn not to buy any more of them as it seems the stock in my area isn't of good genetic health. https://fishinnpost.weebly.com/
I’ve had 2 in my tank for about 6 months along with angels, hatchets and a couple of other small fish and I’ve never had a problem if you get them sometimes they have great personalities so far everything is copacetic in my tank not saying I know if it will work out just saying it did for me no signs of aggression.
I've had my girl for about a year and a half now and I'm totally in love with her personality. Wherever I am in my room, her little eyes follow me around. When she's not watching me she's rumaging around through the plants. Though the females don't have the vibrant colors as the males, they have the nicest personalities. She eats out of my hand and doesn't bother the other fish who shate the same tank as her - only the fry I've had. They're a beautiful staple fish to have. Even the ones at my workplace have just the sweetest of personalities. I've never run into any troubles with the girl I own myself nor the one's whom I look after at work.
My understanding was it’s usually carried by dwarf gouramis, but can pass to all types of fish. And it can linger dormant for a long time, (one source said it can lay dormant for years!) so that makes quarantine difficult. I wanted one really badly until I found all this out. Now I’m just too afraid to get one.
Aquarium pleco Catfish Care. Love them. But don’t recommend keeping two males in anything under a 40. They can be aggressive towards each other. Speaking from experience as well as stories from other people’s experiences. I've had 6. The only survivor is my female. All the others died. They were fine when I went to bed and by the next morning they were gone. I've given up on them. I currently have 4 honey gourami and 4 gold honey gourami and they are just as awesome.
I have 3 two are a pair (pearl gourami) and the other is a blue gourami I have had them over a year I also have a pair of angels along with denison barbs cories and bristlenose pelcos they all get along I don't have the variety pictured
I have a 55gal with 2 blue Gourms together with platys and an angel fish (plecos and ghost shrimp too), and aside from mild chasing of each other (just the two of them), there have been no casualties. I also have a single 20 gallons, with just one gold Gourami specimen (and a pleco)... he seems a little lonely. I feel like they like being in groups, but they also enjoying being pains in the ass to others make sure that you were tank is large enough to accommodate for space and territory, and you should be ok.
Dwarves are great. I have 3 different type males in a 75. They ARE pigs and will out eat slower eating fish. I swear I think they would eat until they explode. Mine are Porky, Chow and Oink. I love them! I’ve had them for years.
They are very active curious fish. They explore all over the tank. Not just stay at one part of it.
They are very entertaining. I’ve had in the past if i had more than one in the same tank they can become aggressive. Just make sure they have something to clam as their own.
oh they'd be fine but honestly, you could do one of the bigger gouramis in that size tank.....like a gold or opaline or something, they don't get iridovirus either....i wouldn't ever suggest putting more than 1 male gourami, but some people do with success, it all depends on tank size and hiding spots. hell even 2 females fight sometimes. I find that most do not live that long compared to a lot of the other varieties of gouramies for whatever reason. The males do squabble a lot as do most males. They are very beautiful however and sometimes are finicky eaters.