friends pleco

[divedeep1689]

Hey guys/girls i am a saltwater guy myself but my gf mom has a tank 55 gal with guppys mollies tetras of all sorts alot of fish in there she also has a pleco two i think cant remember but one is about foot long she has a top on the tank standard top lights and a lid the pleco has been getting cloudy eyes and a sore on his nose he keeps jumping up and hitting the lid on the tank they have had him at least 2-4 years and he has never done this before any ideas wats going on? the time they have had him might be way off but i know at least two years thats how long me and my girl have been dating and i know they had him before that.

 

[MichaelsLilGray]

plecos will run up to the surface for air.. i believe to help with suction... tell her to leave about an inch or two of unfilled area for him to surface at.

 

[divedeep1689]

i belive they have some area for him to do so but i will find out more today my gf is coming over she knows more about her moms tank than i do i will ask her next time i hear or see her

 

[MichaelsLilGray]

Just think though.. a foot long pleco is going to need a good little bit of jumping space in order to get air..

I just purchased a pacu with a busted up nose.. use some melafix in the tank.. it works amazingly well

 

[divedeep1689]

yea i told her to use that i have used it on something in salt before cant remember wat it was tho oh yea a damsel one of my clowns nearly killed but yea told her to get that but she got something that made her tank nasty lookin for a few days and it foamed bad didnt do any good either lol it was made by api tho it looked like little brown tablets

 

[MichaelsLilGray]

tablets.. ugh.. tablets.. lol

 

[spoonman]

The biggest thing would be to get the foot long pleco into a bigger tank. That tank is too small.

 

[MichaelsLilGray]

Id say at the time a 55 gallon is sufficient... when it start climbing over the 17" mark.. time to move up... that... and a 55 galllon is a big tank to some... we dont all have room for 125g+ tanks lol

 

[sieski]

Id say at the time a 55 gallon is sufficient... when it start climbing over the 17" mark.. time to move up... that... and a 55 galllon is a big tank to some... we dont all have room for 125g+ tanks lol

Not debating if the plec can go in a 55g or not. But that almost sounds like "well it's to big for my tank but I can't fit a bigger tank in my house so its fine to ignore the fish's needs" excuse. Which is bad really.