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greenmonkey51    Fish Master Posts: 1571 Kudos: 1692 Votes: 5 Registered: 28-Jan-2004   | I think I already know the answer to this but Could I plant my 75g with my royal pleco in it. |
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gartenzwerfe Big Fish Mrs. Racso To Be Posts: 375 Kudos: 628 Votes: 199 Registered: 20-Mar-2004  | From the FP profile: Adult specimens will uproot plants. From the Planet Catfish profile: When larger, Royal Plecos will re-arrange the tank to their own liking; ensure rocks are well secured and cannot be toppled against the glass. I found a few other sites through google that said the same thing. Probably confirms what you and I both were thinking  |
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jasonpisani   *Ultimate Fish Guru* Posts: 5553 Kudos: 7215 Votes: 1024 Registered: 24-Feb-2003  | Royal Plecos will up root your plants & all your plant work will be lost. http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/s8xi5heh/my_photos http://www.geocities.com/s8xi5heh/classic_blue.html http://www.flickr.com/photos/corydoras/ Member of the Malta Aquarist Society - 1970. http://www.maltaaquarist.com |
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Shinigami      Ichthyophile Catfish/Oddball Fan Posts: 9962 Kudos: 2915 Registered: 22-Feb-2001  | At the very least, the Royal Pleco will destroy the foliage if it doesn't uproot it. Tough teeth, they've got. Java Moss and Riccia are good choices to "plant" a tank with a Royal Plec in it. I haven't tried anything that actually needs to root, though.:%) -------------------------------------------- The aquarist is one who must learn the ways of the biologist, the chemist, and the veterinarian. |
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sham Ultimate Fish Guru Posts: 3369 Kudos: 2782 Votes: 98 Registered: 21-Apr-2004 | I'm gonna have to disagree. I have a royal in my heavily planted tank. He's not quite full grown but he's getting there fast and has done no damage to even the weakest or smallest plants. He travels from a cave to driftwood in a gap I left him and also works his way around the driftwood between the plants to get to the front for food. Just put a little more thought into the plants and leaving room for him to move around. |
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| sham Ultimate Fish Guru Posts: 3369 Kudos: 2782 Votes: 98 Registered: 21-Apr-2004 | He was such a cute little thing(in that ugly pleco way  ) Except for clogging my filter intake with pleco poop so it kept dying on me and the biowheels would quit turning. He used to just sit in the driftwood holes and his whole body fit. Then he got a little bigger.  Then only his head fit in the driftwood holes. The filter had to be moved   [/font][/font][/font] |
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