Aloha!

[Wonderboy]

Hey everyone, I just joined and am happy in doing so! I plan on asking tons of questions here because I have read and can see how much everyone helps! I'm going to write down what stuff I have, so if anyone has any questions, feel free to ask!

I have an 80 gallon tank with 5 bichirs (one albino), a couple synodontis multipunctatus catfish, a pleco and one young african tiger fish.

I also have a 20 gallon with young peacock eel and a lot of different types of plants including some crypts, java fern thriving on driftwood, and some young glossostigma (not much cover yet).

I have a 40 gallon tank for reptiles (wide, long and short) with a mudskipper and whiptail pleco in it.

Lastly, a 10 gallon with standard filtration and heating, and lots of guppies to feed the tiger fish in it.




-Yay for fish.

 

[Ami]

Hi there Wonderboy!

Looks like you've got plenty of experience and knowledge of your own - so you may well find us asking you questions!


One question though, how do you get on with having a mudskipper and whiptail pleco in the same tank? It's a combination I've never seen before and both fish are very, very cool.

 

[karen84]

Hi and welcome

 

[Wonderboy]

One question though, how do you get on with having a mudskipper and whiptail pleco in the same tank? It's a combination I've never seen before and both fish are very, very cool.

The water is somewhere between brackish and fresh, and I've had a common pleco in there with him for a while and he got a little too big, so I moved him to my 80 and he did fine. I needed another pleco for the 40, and I ran into this whiptail at my LFS for $3, so I figured I'd try him out. Working so far. (also, to introduce the changing water types, I used the drip method)

 

[Ami]

Interesting.

I know that some people have tried keeing common plecs in brackish but that they can't cope longterm. Don't know anything about whiptails though.