Habitat - Indoor :: RES w/ Plecostomus

[coopville]

Anyone have any experience with having a Pleco living in a tank with there RES? I assume that if he his big enough, my RES will leave him alone...

[jozzep]

Anyone have any experience with having a Pleco living in a tank with there RES? I assume that if he his big enough, my RES will leave him alone...

I used to assume that too at one point and bought a big one. he was dead in 2 hours.
I tried fast chinese algae eaters......All dead within a few weeks.
You could make 2 trips a week to petco to buy expensive "feeder fish" or learn from my experience and just save your money and the life of those fish

[casketry]

Yeah, it's possible. I don't know how likely it is, but my turtles get along just fine with the pleco in their tank.

I adopted a pair of 6" RES that came with a large pleco, also around 6". (The pleco was sold as part of the tank setup.) The previous owner said he got them all when they were babies and they grew up together in the same space so they're very used to each other.They get along great. Sometimes the pleco latches onto one of their shells and just chills there as they swim around. I've seen them sleep together in a huddle before too. It's sickeningly cute. I also have a smaller 2.5" RES that I introduced into the tank and there have been minimal problems, the pleco just pushes him away if he's being overly inquisitive. It's funny, I thought the pleco was pretty much just a poo-eating accessory but it has a personality too. He has some sort of monopoly over the underside of the basking platform and get's huffy if any of the turtles lingers for too long. xD

[defdylan]

i have a 12 inch pleco with my 6 inch turt and ever since i put the pleco in there my turt hasnt even looked at him well at first she bit his fin then when she realised it didnt even phase the pleco she left it alone since

[KatieSmeltzer]

i had a pleco named spot that was about the same size as filbert. he lasted about 3 days. all filbert did was take a bite out of his tail and it killed spot. now i have snowball, who is slightly larger than filbert. he goes after snowball every once in a while. i've seen filbert get ahold of snowball's fin, but he's been hanging on for about a week and a half now.

[casketry]

I'd actually be quite upset if my pleco got eaten. He has an adorable personality. On wikipedia it says they can grow up to 2 feet long. Which would be AWESOME. (If I had a tank 1/2 the size of my apartment. -_-) Would an RES go after a fish more than twice their size?

[steve]

A RES could take some nips...

[defdylan]

i put my pleco in a bucket one time because my tank started leaking and it was filled like half way and we left the house and we came back and my gf started screaming that theres a fish on the floor. lol
and of course there is a pleco on floor it had to be out of the water for about 45min to 1hr it was completely dried and not moving at all. lol but i put it back in the water and it just started swimmin. sorry no help but a funny story

[casketry]

Lol, my pleco sometimes crawls up the docking ramp to munch on the algae growth. Sometimes his entire head is out of the water and he makes a really loud crunching/sucking noise. Scared me the first time it happened. . . haha. . . we are so off topic.

[defdylan]

yeah mine sucks on the bottom of the dockk. and its okay its a forum were supposed to talk about it hope i helped though lol

[Linus]

I put a baby common Pleco in with my baby Belize Slider. They grew up together, and even though sometimes the Pleco would have a big bite mark on its fin, it would just grow back. One summer I put my turtle in the pond. When I brought her back in(both were now 7in.) The pleco started attacking my turtle so I had to sell it back to the store. Plecos are very agressive and territorial.

[Turtle Mummy 101]

I wish I could put a Pleco in with Charlotte. I've tried different sizes and varieties but the longest i've been able to keep one in with her is 5 days. She's a very agressive turtle and seems to kill it right away. Now I just use snails to help clean the glass - they seem to last a bit longer.

[n00bEmpty]

I had a pleco with my turtle for about 5 months, my turtles took nips off it's fin once in a while but he lasted. My turtles tend to wait until all my fishes are weak and then put them out of their misery. Depends on your turtle, right now I have a rainbow shark eating algae, he's fast enough to swim away and he uses the fake plants as covers. He also uses the cave to hide in.