Plecos And Plants?

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Hello over the past 2 days i am now interested in planting my aquarium. I currently have 2 Plecos in the tank. 1 Common and the other Spotted(kinda aggressive). Can i effectively accomplish planted 10GL tank with these fishes?
 
Hello over the past 2 days i am now interested in planting my aquarium. I currently have 2 Plecos in the tank. 1 Common and the other Spotted(kinda aggressive). Can i effectively accomplish planted 10GL tank with these fishes?


No, because those fish need much, much bigger tanks to live in.
 
Plecos are ok with plants, then tend to be to lasy to eat them. The larger plecos can knock the plants out of the substrate though.

As Fred says, a 10g is way to small for those plecos you have, a common pleco will get to 6" no probs.

Sam
 
Plecos are ok with plants, then tend to be to lasy to eat them. The larger plecos can knock the plants out of the substrate though.

As Fred says, a 10g is way to small for those plecos you have, a common pleco will get to 6" no probs.

SAm

6"? try 18"-24" :good:
 
OK guys today was a sad and happy day. I donated my 2 plecos for 3 dollars :( to my LFS. The good news is now i am really serious about starting a planted tank now there gone.
 
Sorry for the double post but i also purchased this type of grass? can some one help me identify it.

 
Could be Echinodorus tenellus. It's pretty big for tenellus though. So not sure. If you are planning on keeping plants then the air stone should really go because through surface aggitation, CO2 is being lost.
 
I was planning to pick this up at petsmart today

Green NRG Natural CO2 Plant System

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I'd say its definitely not e tennelus totally wrong plant structure.
 
Ok i just purchased a nutrafin co2 injector My question is does my airstone defeat the purpose of having a planted tank?
 

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