Comments on: Bristlenose Plecostomus

By: Fish Tank

Fish Tank — Sun, 15 May 2011 21:35:46 +0000

Yes. Some plecos are that active. Sounds fine to me. I wouldn’t feed any more than that.

By: Elsa

Elsa — Sat, 14 May 2011 01:03:54 +0000

Hello,
I was wondering if is normal that my pleco is active all day, morning, noon, evening night, I feed him with algae wafers every other day. Is not enough?? I have also a comet fish with him. I use to have a lager gold fish ( he was about 8 in long) but he died. Since then my pleco is more active, it could be another fact??

By: Fish Tank

Fish Tank — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 23:36:37 +0000

Yes. They’re great cleaners. Good luck with them.

Mike

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 10:06:00 +0000

I got 2 of these last week. A male and a female both about 8cm head to tale. I think their awsome, they clean up the leftover fish food and the walls very well. It’s never been this clean. I can’t wait to see them breed and have more of these cute suckers on the glass

By: chunnie

chunnie — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 22:31:06 +0000

I had my local petshop order in a pair of bristle nose plecs for me. He actually ordered 3 of them. I purchased 2 and my friend purchased the 3rd. These are only little at the moment approx 5cm long and non of them have bristles. Does this mean they are all female or do bristles develop as the plecs get older?

By: Diana

Diana — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 06:15:20 +0000

I got a medium pleco about 4 days ago and i read that they like to eat veggies. So I put some brocili in the tank. The only problem is that the pleco isn’t eating it, my fancy guppy is. I don’t know if it is safe for my fancy guppy to be eating it cause after it eats it, it lays on the floor for a long while which it never does. Also, what should I feed my pleco that he will actually eat?

By: Fabian

Fabian — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 20:15:05 +0000

i have 2 baby plecos… they look healthy. all of sudden they have these brownish spots on there back. i have no clue what it may be. its pretty hard to explain. how can we tell the plecos are sick?

By: Fish Tank

Fish Tank — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 21:39:54 +0000

Awesome. Plecos are a lot of fun.

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:37:09 +0000

I have a small pleco that I purchased a few months ago and I was told it’s a bristlnose but that they don’t grow their bristles until they get bigger. I’m skeptical as it is already about 2.5-3 inches including tail and there are no bristles. It is dark brown with a pattern on it’s back near the head (like 2 circles). Thanks for your help. I also have a beautiful albino pleco in my other tank. About 6 inches long and I love him!

By: Carolina

Carolina — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 05:28:32 +0000

Hello, I just got my fish yesterday.. I got schooling neon fish and a pleco. He/she seems very passive almost unactive, and the fins are down… I dont know if this is normal behaviour.
Please help me!