Can Plecos live with guppy fry?
The pleco will not bother any of the fishies in there. You can safely add him to the bigger tank without worry.
How big do Guppy fry need to be to not get eaten?
Size. Before you can move your baby guppies into your big tank, they need to be large enough that the other fish won’t eat them. Exactly how large depends on the size of the fish in the main tank, but the minimum size the babies should be before you move them is about an inch long.
Is it possible for a pleco fish to eat fry?
Pleco’s like most any other fish, will most certainly eat fry, that is why in most cases after spawing they will need too be removed, or move the eggs to a 10 gallon tank to raise the fry. Anytime you have a large adult fish with egg layers like plecos, and other plecos in the tank, dont expect high survival rates,…
Is the bristlenose pleco harmless to other fish?
Bristlenose Plecos are mostly harmless and get along well with many other species. In most of their time, they are either sucking on the aquarium glass or on the top layer of the substrate. Other fish hardly bother them, especially the ones that swim around in the mid-layer of the tank.
Can a gold nugget eat a bristlenose Fry?
I just found out that a mature gold nugget will eat bristlenose fry. Just bristlenose won’t eat their own I’ve got a 150 planted tank with 5 bristlenose plecos, a gold nugget, and a real little pleco that I’m not sure what it is. Bn spawned and i had like 50 fry one day and slowly they disappeared down to only 5. What could have happened?
Is it true that plecos sleep during the day?
Yes they sleep but not like other fish that sleep during the night but instead they sleep during the day one can not make sure that if it is sleeping or just sucking on the corner or one of its favourite hidden spots.