Swordtail Fry- Ok With Plec?

[rossyt99]

Hi, I have about 15 Swordtail fry happily swimming around and colours are developing at 3 days old.
I am pondering to add one of my small Plecos (LO22) as some brown Algae is growing on parts of glass. I know that Plecs are known to damage eggs off other fish- but I am wondering if the 'quick swimming' Fry will be O.k with him?

(He would get Peas and Wafers also, and its particulary at night that I fear the fry may get snapped up. ??..)



+ Just managed a careful gravel-clean, without syphoning any of them up!

 

[Colin_T]

be a pretty good pleco to catch a baby fish. Besides that the fry should be hanging around the surface and the pleco will live on the bottom. If you feed it well at night then it should be full and ignore the fry.

 

[rossyt99]

Was hoping for that response> about 3 of the fry are usually near the gravel at times and the rest at surface.

Peas/ other greens will be added before lights out

 

[helterskelter]

I seen it happen many time with pleco's they sit in a corner and when a fry goe's in the corner they pounce on the fry and eat it.......
Also seen it done with hill stream local.

try apple snails

 

[Colin_T]

what sort of plecos where they helterskelter?

 

[Madam Macaw]

Well, I have two plecos in my fry tank and barely ever see them at all, let alone bothering the fast moving fry.

 

[ckulahci]

To be on the safe side pleco's should not be housed together with any fry. I had a very bad experience with my cichlid fry even though they were in a breeding net got sucked by the plec through the bottom-pores. Well fine, that is the learning curve. I learned in the breeding net one should place a thin layer of substrate large enough not to descent through the net, fine enough not to pose any danger to little fry.

 

[moll]

I have a pleco in my community tank, he never bothers my fry will eat ant that don't make it but he never goes after them.

 

[helterskelter]

i've seen it with BN's and hill stream loach.

 

[5teady_2012]

MOst plecs will not bother fry, if they do manage to eat one, its cos the fry unfortunatly swam under is mouth, a plec will not purposly chase and eat a fry.

 

[rossyt99]

IIII Yes, Vs. III No. Think I'll try it...

 

[stang1]

I've got Dwarf Cichlid fry in with a group of Plecos and they've been fine. The fry spend most of the time at the bottom and I've got 7 Plecos in the tank with no problems at all.
It may just be a case of putting your Pleco in and keeping a close eye on them.