whats your favorite pleco? besides a zebra
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Just saw an Adonis for the first time last week, I've got to own one of those someday as soon as I talk my wife into another huge tank.
My favorite is the common plecostimus. I think they look the coolest, and the low cost helps too. I currently own two (a full-grown 9-incher and a 2.5 incher that I bought yesterday), and will likely be getting another today to replace a pictus catfish that just died on me.
Hmmm, favorite pl*cos 
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I currently have a gold nugget and a King tiger, I'm considering adding a bristlenose (someone to work where the pretty boys won't, LOL! ).
I've only seen pictures But the Sultan(?) Pleco looks really neat. Also the worm line (?) pleco. I do agree that zebra plecos are neet too.
As far as shyness, I used to have a green phantom (l200) really neat looking pl*co. I got him close after I got the gold nugget since he was hiding all the time and I read that L200's stay out in the light and don't mind hanging out in the daytime. Well, I find out time and again that fish don't read the manuals! He took over a driftwood cave and became teritorial (like a punk teenager with a switchblade, he'd come out and wave his fins at the other fish, even my loaches!). The plus side was I saw my gold nugget more since he often lost the battle for caves! I finally traded the green phantom in, and bought the king tiger. Much more peaceful, but now both of my pl*co's have found caves and come out at night. The king tiger also seems to be more shy. The funny thing was that when I got rid of the L200 and put in the king tiger, my gold nugget came over ready to mix it up like he did with the L200, he then found out that he didn't want to fight with him and now they can even share a cave! So with pl*co's personality matters more than what it says in the books. My gold nugget is not shy, and often lets me know when he needs another slice of cucumber by hanging around the feeding rock like a dog at an empty food bowl. I hope I don't mess things up introducing a bristlenose to the mix, have him on hold and going back today for another look (need another algae clean-up crew for the leaves).
Question though on the King Tigers, I've read somewhere that their stripes when they get older can become less defined and become fuzzy? Mine is around 3 inches now and has sharp black and white lines (even sharper than other King Tigers smaller than him that I've seen at other LFS). I wonder if he's really a King Tiger? The are not heavy lines but not as fine as the queen arboresque either. Looks like someone took a fine tip marker on a white fish!
.I currently have a gold nugget and a King tiger, I'm considering adding a bristlenose (someone to work where the pretty boys won't, LOL! ).
I've only seen pictures But the Sultan(?) Pleco looks really neat. Also the worm line (?) pleco. I do agree that zebra plecos are neet too
.As far as shyness, I used to have a green phantom (l200) really neat looking pl*co. I got him close after I got the gold nugget since he was hiding all the time and I read that L200's stay out in the light and don't mind hanging out in the daytime. Well, I find out time and again that fish don't read the manuals! He took over a driftwood cave and became teritorial (like a punk teenager with a switchblade, he'd come out and wave his fins at the other fish, even my loaches!). The plus side was I saw my gold nugget more since he often lost the battle for caves! I finally traded the green phantom in, and bought the king tiger. Much more peaceful, but now both of my pl*co's have found caves and come out at night. The king tiger also seems to be more shy. The funny thing was that when I got rid of the L200 and put in the king tiger, my gold nugget came over ready to mix it up like he did with the L200, he then found out that he didn't want to fight with him and now they can even share a cave! So with pl*co's personality matters more than what it says in the books. My gold nugget is not shy, and often lets me know when he needs another slice of cucumber by hanging around the feeding rock like a dog at an empty food bowl. I hope I don't mess things up introducing a bristlenose to the mix, have him on hold and going back today for another look (need another algae clean-up crew for the leaves).
Question though on the King Tigers, I've read somewhere that their stripes when they get older can become less defined and become fuzzy? Mine is around 3 inches now and has sharp black and white lines (even sharper than other King Tigers smaller than him that I've seen at other LFS). I wonder if he's really a King Tiger? The are not heavy lines but not as fine as the queen arboresque either. Looks like someone took a fine tip marker on a white fish!
I think the Commons are quite attractive, Mine is Gorgeous I thought for awhile they might have given me a leopard, but he is just a really deep colored common.
Swimfins
This is as good as it gets.
