I have one of these, "Eisenhower", in my 300 liter community setup. A great, really characterful fish. Absoluteley stunning too. He is about 3" long, so approaching full size.
The main point about these is that they are mainly nocturnal. I rarely see mine during the main part of the day, as he secretes himself away in his own personal hidyhole. However, after a few weeks settling in he became a lot more confident. He now comes out at feeding time in the evening, even when the tank lights are on. So its not that he's frightened of the light, just that his preference is to sleep most of the day. I have heard from other owners/breeders that theres are also very nocturnal.
So I see him from evening feeding time onwards, and then he carries on doing his "thing" all night (I assume !). I repeat that it did take him a few weeks to settle in though, as with many plecs.
He gets on fine with other smaller plecs. As in, he holds his own in the general argy bargy at food time, as he is competing with two BN's and a feisty L206 who is bigger than him. There is also a large angel fish in the tank, who gets on fine with all the plecs.
Mine is not aggressive or territorial, that I can tell, although (as I said) he holds his own with the others.
For food, he eats pellets, flake, algae wafers, and frozen brine shrimp and bloodworm. Theoretically L134 are pretty carnivorous but his favourite is definately algae wafers, even ahead of frozen bloodworm.
£20 would be an astoundingly good price for near adults, but I'm guessing these are juveniles. Still a pretty good price though ! They are also reasonably easy to breed from all accounts.
I'm really pleased I have mine now. I was very frustrated during the first few weeks of ownership as I simply never saw him. I was right on the verge of selling him. Then he must of heard about it, as the very next day, he came out to say hello at feeding time, and just became more confident each day.
He is a very willing feeder (read as "greedy" !!!) as he is quite a tubster.
He is now one of my favourites. When he finds an algae wafer he sort of curves himself over it whilst scoffing it, as if to say "you'd better back off, this is mine" !! A great fish.
