Aquarium Pleco “Suckerfish” Care - Catfish to Avoid
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Aquarium Pleco “Suckerfish” Care - Catfish to Avoid. The Aquarium suckerfish is actually known as the pleco catfish. The plecostomus Catfish is easy to feed. Their food is very important. Here is a link:
Best Algae Food: http://amzn.to/2hdY9KT
My first sump. I modified it. It's on a 200 gallon tank that will be planted, and eventually will be a Discus tank. From left to right. 2 200 micron socks. 1 10 micron sock. 2 bays of ceramic rings and some floss. 1 bay of Seachem Matrix(8L). From there the water flows through a media canal where I can put Purigen or carbon etc.
I'll fill it with Purigen. Next is a wet/dry section. Under this I have a pump(500gph) that pumps this highly oxygenated water, back to the 10 micron sock, for a second pass through the sump. Also can use this to keep circulation in the sump when tank feed pumps are off. Two 800gph feed pumps. Other than that there are pumps for a CO2 reactor, and a 57 watt UV light. Also have a small canister filter filled with coral which runs into the sump. I'm using Amazonia substrate, which lowers my ph, so I have to buffer, to be able to add CO2. I'm new to sumps and this is great fun. So versatile. Reminds me of an engine. http://plecostomus.org/species/
It toook me a while to find calcium food for my frogs.so i ended up finding "reptomin " not sure for snails tho .sorry They usually sell in pet stores for aquariums but u better ask how they work because i think some rocks can change the ph of water. https://youtu.be/29EigzKW9zg
So I am kind of new to owning snails, how would I go about properly adding cleaned eggshells to my aquarium for calcium? I buy bird cuttlebones, which birds use for their beaks. I just hide it behind a rock in the back for snails to find. Also baking soda, NaCO3, provides the carbonate (CO3-) for the calcium to bond with forming the shell.
Do NOT use Tums. They have started adding artificial sweeteners and other chemicals. Not good for your snails. Get actual calcium, cook and grand your eggshells or just put in a dollar cuttlebone. Cuttlebone is cheaper, last longer and better for them.
I make snail jello...green bean baby food....or other vegetables,Reptile calcium powder, Knox gelatin, some seaweed pellets (optional) and some fish food....also optional... I have a lot of snails so I make bigger batches but I mix three different types of baby food with two packages of Knox gelatin. You can also buy calcium pills and grind up about a dozen of them to mix in... But they are very hard to crush. When I drop those in the tank the first person that gets to him as usually my pleco. https://youtu.be/7POU1y2sRdE
I have cuttle bone in the tank but my beta is more interested than the snails. Not sure it's doing them any good. You don't need to add calcium for ramshorns snails only for the large snails. Who grow big thick shells. Mystery snails, apple snails, rabbit snails, Japanese trapdoor snails, lava snails or any of the other large snails. https://fishinnpost.weebly.com/
No they don't eat other snails. Different varieties grow two different. Google them they are really interesting. What I like about them is they are live-bearing snails the only have about one baby a month so they won't over run your aquarium. You wouldn't want them in your tank. They do great in my planted tank but there are three plants that they will eat one is Christmas tree Moss two is banana plants and three is java fern so if you like that java fern you just put in your tank don't get rabbit's nails but maybe one of the lovely varieties of mystery snails would be a better match are some of the beautiful nirites.
Aquarium plecos are also known as suckerfish. Any idea what's going on with my guy's fins? He has been in his own tank for almost 2months now because I thought his fins were getting nipped in my 10 gallon community. Then I thought maybe he had been doing it to himself. But now it's looking worse. I recently got a teeny tiny dwarf crayfish and there are shrimp in his tank, but I would think the dwarf crayfish is too small to have done this. Is it fin rot or something else?
I've been treating him with bettafix for a few days. I did a water change last weekend and will do another this weekend too. When you are dealing with fin rot you need to increase partial water changes to about every day....or at least every other day. Once a week won't cut it. IAL an help heal but clean water is most important. I would do a 50% water change every day for a few weeks to see if he starts healing up. If he responds well then back off to 50% every other day.
I’m treating mine in a 3.5 gallon tank with almond leaves in the filter and a 1/2 teaspoon of salt . 50 % warm water change daily and it’s getting better. I also used the Betta fix for a few days but switched to methylene blue dips which seem to help a lot (someone here recommended the methylene blue). Good luck.