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[stevietheblindfish]

I appreciate all of the help given so far on here; I've a funny feeling that this forum could well become a second home!

I'm trying to find out which 'plecs' we got yesterday. Unfortunately the baby was getting fidgety so I completely forgot to make a not of exactly what I was getting. By looking at various photos on the internet I think they are some form of Ancistrus. I'm not completely sure though, as my little fellers don't seem to have any bristles around their snout. I was also assured that they wouldn't grow much at all (they're only around 1" in length anyway), but then again who knows!

 

[the_lock_man]

I appreciate all of the help given so far on here; I've a funny feeling that this forum could well become a second home!

I'm trying to find out which 'plecs' we got yesterday. Unfortunately the baby was getting fidgety so I completely forgot to make a not of exactly what I was getting. By looking at various photos on the internet I think they are some form of Ancistrus. I'm not completely sure though, as my little fellers don't seem to have any bristles around their snout. I was also assured that they wouldn't grow much at all (they're only around 1" in length anyway), but then again who knows!

Give the shop a ring, see if they can remember, that would save a trip.

I don't know of any plecs that stay around 1", but IIRC immature bristlenoses don't have any bristles. But if the shop is sure they stay very small, they could perhaps be hillstream loaches, rather than plecs, but even these grow to 2-3".

 

[IcQb]

I hear what you're saying, but I wouldn't have thought that the increased plant growth would make a significant difference. And that's without considering the fact that there are 3 plecs in there.

I take that view that if Stevie sees high ammonia, high nitrate and loads of algae, it's somewhat demotivating, but if there's low algae, then at least one thing is going right, so it's easier to not give up hope on the other things - does that make sense to you?

I feel you
I put some parrot feather from my dad's pond in my cycled tanganyika tank which was experiencing some good green algae growth,
and 2 weeks alter, algae were gone. The parrot feather grows so fast it literally drains the tank from nutrients.

ofcourse, that alone is not going to cycle the tank.

So perhaps 7-8h like you said with some fast growing 'pest'plant could add to the solution, without algae

 

[Ruskull]

Very pretty tank, good luck with it

Plecos & Mollys are way too big for that size tank.

In fact someone should smack the local fish store salesman for even allowing you to put those size fish in that tank.

Guppys are perfect, especially for a young child, very colorful & very active. Great choice there just make sure you don't have females or you'll soon be over loaded with Guppy fry.