Keeping a Pleco with MBUNA?

longislandfish

longislandfish

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Hey Guys,

Got a question. I am starting to grow some algae and i was thinking of getting a pleco to help control this.
My tank has about 30 african mbuna in it and one Synodontis cat
210 Gallons.

any recommendations?

PH is 8.0
is this safe for pleco???

:huh:
 
Getting fish to fix a problem is a bad idea, also i have five plecos in three differnt tanks and only one of them ever eats my algae (my sons BN pleco) the other four won't touch it.
 
I keep a rubber lipped pleco and a clown pleco with my africans with great success. The rubber lipped pleco seems to be the most active especially with brown algae. I keep my tank ph at 8.0-8.2 and they do fine.
 
plecos are tough.. at least common plecos. they can stand just about any kind of water, even mud puddles. i had a friend drain his tank put it out on the back porch with a couple inches of water in it, go back a month later and saw the muck in the bottom of his tank move and found his pleco in the muck.

you probably can't do much damage to a pleco by putting it in with africans.. and i think even africans will learn that plecos are sharp and best left alone.
 
I have kept bristlenosed plecos w/ my african cichlids for awhile over the years & they they survived & did the job that they were suppose to do for the most part.

But they had to have lived a sad existence.

And I stopped using them for that, b/c of that very reason.

And given the nature of mbuna, I suspect that,...if ya gotta use a pleco, the bristlenosed would suffice.


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