Brackish Pleco?

The forum for puffers that either live or start in brackish biotopes: GSPs, F8s, Ceylons & more.
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Post by Pufferpunk »

He keeps them together, cause he said they're "buddies".
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Post by bugeye »

Thank you for your advice on and all. I will have to get my marigolds on (yellow cleaning gloves!) and keep house.

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Post by nmonks »

Whilst not viable in a tank with a GSP, it should be mentioned that the combination of mollies, Florida flagfish, Amano shrimp, and nerite snails usually takes care of algae in low salinity aquaria. Mollies and nerites could also be used in a mid to high salinity tank together with, if you could find them, red-nose shrimp, Caridina gracilirostris, and Hawaiian volcano shrimp, Halocaridina rubra. So while plecs aren't viable, there are workarounds in brackish water tanks that can be used.

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C papuan
C lorteti
DPs
suvattii
burrfish
T niphobles
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Post by Pufferpunk »

After 3 years of fighting hair algee, I have finally tanken the advice of others, to use mollies in my F8 tank. They've been doing a fantastic job! Funny, that's the only tank w/that problem. The babies don't stand a chance though. :(
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...

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