some of my freshwater fish

Thought i would get a pic or two since i haven't posted in awhile. Hope you like them!


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this is my leopard Ctenopoma

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and this is my gold nugget pleco. sorry about the bad pic. Hes pretty shy and it takes him forever to get used to new things haha.

thats a nice fish.

they look way better in real life. The leapard is about 6 inches long and almost 3 inches high. and the gold nugget is about 5 inches and i didnt get his gold banded fins but both of them can be very elusive haha

so i have had no luck with the gold nugget plecos and really want to get another one but they are spendy.any tips for my next purchase.they seem to sell quikly..or maybe they are departing by other means.yours looks pretty sweet.and that leopard is bomb.i have wanted one for so long but i heard they like some salt.thats not entirely true is it.

Thanks. Actually i put salt in (in order to pre treat some ich i thought might break out), and both the leopard and the pleco HATED it! The most important thing to me about the pleco is warmer temperature and meaty foods.My tank never drops below 82 degrees. At first i thought i would run into problems with the warmer temperature, but after increasing my surface agitation to increase the oxygen content, i found that all my fish eat better, are more disease resistant, and increased some of their colors! Also he needs to have meaty foods. I didn't realize this till i stopped putting meaty bits because maintenince was getting tedius, but after a week or two he started losing color and getting skinny. I couldn't figure it out till i threw some bloodworms in and the pleco came out and devoured all of them.

aww damn i might look into one of those gold nuggets,para pleco, or a royal.and what about shrimps for em like brine and mysis as i always have that on hand.

I havent tried mysis but he does like brine shrimp and those para plecos can look crazy cool.

everything loves mysis...