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Quick follow up to this thread to says thanks for the input. I decided to try one more time and bought a common pleco that is a little larger, maybe 3 inches long. He's doing much better. I think maybe the very small little baby plecos must simply be harder to add to an established aquarium...

I've thought about it! But I would have to REALLY want a pleco to start another aquarium just for that purpose. :)

Thanks. The last one did die the day after I changed water and filter media. Not sure if that was the cause because no other fish had a problem. But your tip makes sense. Also, I have a little school of four cory catfish who clean up any food that makes its way down to the gravel. Since there...

Definitely appreciate the in-depth considerations. The aquarium has thirteen other fish and several live plants, all healthy. I think the problem has to be that the plecos have all been too small. They immediately hide behind the heater or inside a statue in the tank and I never see them again...

Hi all - I have a 46 gallon aquarium with some Rainbowfish, an Acara cichlid, Blood Parrot cichlid, and some cory catfish. I really like plecos but each one that I've added died. Can't figure out why. Years ago, I had a common pleco and it grew to over a foot long. The ones I have purchased...

I think I'm going to go ahead and move the fry over. Then, every few days, I'm going to remove some water and replace it with water from my established aquarium. If I keep doing this for a couple of months, it seems like it should work. I can't use the filter media because I'm using a tiny...

Thanks for the quick reply. The fry are Boesemani rainbowfish and I only have six of them. They're so small they are very difficult even to see. Right now I have them in a fry net to protect them because there are cichlids in the tank too. I just thought I could take some aquarium water and...

One of my fish has been having babies and I would like to try and save some of the fry. So I bought a little 2.5 gallon tank and filled it with water from my current aquarium. Since the water came from my aquarium and I only have six tiny little fry, does this tank need to cycle? Also, what if I...

Hi all, We recently lost our blood parrot cichlid and are thinking about a good replacement. We have a 46 gallon bowfront with five boosemani rainbows and one electric blue acara cichlid. The thing we loved about the parrot cichlid is that it would interact with us. When we came near the...

Hello community, I recently noticed one of my cory cats looks as though most of his tail and dorsal fin are gone. Looks like they've been bitten off, but there is zero aggression in my tank, even though I have a couple of cichlids. Then, my last German Blue Ram started looking bad and died the...

Thanks for all the tips. I changed some of the fake plants from green to a dark red color, to create a darker backdrop. I added one real plant, just to see how it would do. It seems to be doing alright, but isn't a very impressive addition. But most importantly, I upgraded my lighting to a...

Hello all, I'm looking for some general advice on how to bring out the color of my fish. I think that possibly better lighting and/or a change of gravel might help. Currently I am using LED strip lights that are submerged right along the upper edge of the aquarium. It was a setup that came...

I thought of that but thought that I would end up with too much air for a small bubble wall. Ended up buying the cheapest one (Top Fin brand). Seems to work fine for the job so far. The real question is whether the fish need added air in the aquarium. I have a canister filter, so the water's...

I'd like to add an air pump to my 46 gallon just for running a small bubble wall. I have a brand new Fluval air pump but it has two outlets and I just want to run a single hose, mainly for decoration although I'm hoping the fish will appreciate the added oxygen. Any suggestions for the...

So, as a follow-up to my original post... It's been about a month now since I bought the gold nugget pleco and I have now seen it exactly twice. I was concerned that it might be dead, but last night I got woken up at 2:30 in the morning and so decided to take a look at the aquarium. Sure...