I adopted a large common pleco (about a foot long) who was being kept in a 20 gallon tank. He's in my 55 right now and he's the only one in there - it's been a juvenile goldfish tank but I moved my most recent batch of goldfish to my pond, so the tank was open for him. It's been about two and a half weeks and he seems healthy though his tail seems more bent than maybe it should be. I don't know, this is my first large pleco. I've only ever had bristlenose plecos before. He seems to like cucumber and I have 3 pieces of driftwood in the tank and sort of a rock cave for him to hide in as well as small, young plants for him to hide behind...sort of. They're new plants and still quite small lol. Anyway, at night I hear loud rasping sounds. I've gotten up to see what he's doing and he's rasping on the glass. Is it healthy for him to be rasping so hard on the glass and is him doing so indicative of a problem with the tank? Or is it normal? I know that they suck on the glass, but I thought they would only make rasping noises when they were rasping hard on driftwood.
Water temp's at 74 degrees, ammonia and nitrites at 0, and nitrates at 10. I've seen him on the driftwood a bit, but not as much as I thought I would. I boiled the driftwood and then doused it in treated water before putting it in the tank. Sry, I tried taking a picture of him, but he's in his cave and he's hard to see :/
Water temp's at 74 degrees, ammonia and nitrites at 0, and nitrates at 10. I've seen him on the driftwood a bit, but not as much as I thought I would. I boiled the driftwood and then doused it in treated water before putting it in the tank. Sry, I tried taking a picture of him, but he's in his cave and he's hard to see :/