So I recently decided to add a rubber lip pleco into my 55g community tank. I had a bristlenose pleco living comfortable inside for a month and decided he looked lonely. So off to the pet store the rubber lip caught my eye, size wasn't too big all seemed well. A week later i put him into the community tank and could almost instantly tell that the bristelnose had established a firm territory and while he was peaceful with all of my other fish the same couldn't be said for the rubber lip.
Getting to the main guts of this story... a week went past and i honestly thought they were getting used to each other and the occasional chases seemed rather playful but yesterday i came downstairs and didn't see the rubber lip. I looked all over... but figured he was simply in hiding.. later that night there was still no sign of him so i looked under my driftwood and inside my two penguin 350s i had seen him attempting to enter days before hand. Well last place i looked was behind the tank and there sat the sad silhouette of the pleco dead and dried on the floor.
My question to all of you is... with normal water parameters and a fair amount of cover in the tank did he literally get scared out by the bristelnose? What could have caused this?
Getting to the main guts of this story... a week went past and i honestly thought they were getting used to each other and the occasional chases seemed rather playful but yesterday i came downstairs and didn't see the rubber lip. I looked all over... but figured he was simply in hiding.. later that night there was still no sign of him so i looked under my driftwood and inside my two penguin 350s i had seen him attempting to enter days before hand. Well last place i looked was behind the tank and there sat the sad silhouette of the pleco dead and dried on the floor.
My question to all of you is... with normal water parameters and a fair amount of cover in the tank did he literally get scared out by the bristelnose? What could have caused this?