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My albino oscars keep on breeding and so do the convicts and when they do the plecostomas appears to eat all of the babies and then dies shortly there after. Does anyone have a soloution to this. I was reading the other posts in the forum and i noticed that alot of people have plecostomas that are doing great in there tanks. I gave up on buying them casue they would only last about a month and they would die shortly after the fish gave birth. Some suggestion would be greatly apprechiated.

Originally posted by anc6802
My albino oscars keep on breeding and so do the convicts and when they do the plecostomas appears to eat all of the babies and then dies shortly there after. Does anyone have a soloution to this. I was reading the other posts in the forum and i noticed that alot of people have plecostomas that are doing great in there tanks. I gave up on buying them casue they would only last about a month and they would die shortly after the fish gave birth. Some suggestion would be greatly apprechiated.

I've never seen a Pl*co eat "all" the fry when Oscars breed -- in fact I've never seen a Pl*co eat any fry at all. So I don't know what could be happening -- perhaps you should avoid keeping Pl*cos!

--Mark:cool:

I gave up on buying them casue they would only last about a month and they would die shortly after the fish gave birth. Some suggestion would be greatly apprechiated.

Are you sure the plecos are eating the babies?


(to me) It sounds like maybe when the babies hatch your haveing an amonia spike and it's killing the fry and the plecos.

I thought about that. I decided not to buy another plecostomas and see what happenes. The fish had fry again and there now 2 months old and getting ready to put them in other tanks. The first plecostomas (plinko) lived for i'd say 2 years and then the fish started reproducing and "plinko" passed away shortly after. Since the fish have been reproducing i have not been able to keep a plecostomas alive. I much prefer having a natural allge cleaner rather than scrubbing the glass manually

When my oscars were breeding and i have them in my 75 with the Huge pleco, the got extreamly defensive (he once got caught between the end of the tank and their nest of eggs, and only a net could of saved him) and would attack anything that got near the nest.

anyways, after a few nights, i turned the lights of the tank off, and over night the pleco creeped up and ate all of the eggs (no fry yet) every single egg had been wiped clean .

I would suggest putting a nice flat rock that is raised up higher for the oscars to lay their eggs on, and also lay down some type of pipes (not metal ones) or something long and narrow for the pleco to hide in.


Also, what size were the oscars and pleco that you had? Cause the oscars i had were around 12" each, and the pleco is around 15" so the pleco could stand up to the oscars if need be, even if it really couldnt fight back. After a while they just ignored him as if he were a log or something.

"Oscar" my tiger oscar is 7" long and the other 4 are about 3" long and the plecostomas i would have to say was around 5 - 6". They seem to be having there babies in one of the hollow plastic castles in the tank. So if i put a "shelf" in the tank higher than the bottom lets say 12" they sould be okay with a plecostomas? Thanks for the help

Hi..what i would do is wait for spawning to occur then seperate pleco from other inhabitants or remove pleco to another tank until all is good in your main tank.
either that or remove all fry into a nursing tank to bring them up.

just a suggestion....good luck.

jay

Originally posted by anc6802
If Christopher Columbus was right, i would have jumped off the edge years ago.

I may be thinking backwards, but shouldn't that be "If Christopher Columbus was wrong, i would have jumped off the edge years ago."? :idonno: Jus' wonderin' - - - -

--:cool:

seems highly likly (jusging on what ive just seen) that two oscars could easily dispatch a pleco within a few hours (lights out time)

if the plecos are covered in bite marks and blood is seeping from their scales its likly theyve been attacked (just happened to me anyways)

it may be hard to see the marks, but mine was an albino plec and it really does worry me how large and vicious the marks actually are.

the parents, if threatened by the pleco, will geneally eat the fry to stop the nutrients being lost to a competitor (happens in the wild i think)

but chances are that, with the extra feeding your tank has a mini cycle, and the esulting spikes cause massive loses, and the rapidly decaying corpses of the fry just magnify the problem.

My plecostomas looks likes to have a pink nose. I think he hurt himself in some way.
I was wondering he really needs the tip of his nose or will he die? I think he recieved was hurt when he attempted to to run into the temp. gage for the I do know how many time.
He or she is too much of a dare devil. At first, I though the fish had died but it was only hiding.
Now, that my fish looks healed how do I keep it from doing it again?:o

My plecostomas looks likes to have a pink nose. I think he hurt himself in some way.
I was wondering he really needs the tip of his nose or will he die? I think he recieved was hurt when he attempted to to run into the temp. gage for the I do know how many time.
He or she is too much of a dare devil. At first, I though the fish had died but it was only hiding.
Now, that my fish looks healed how do I keep it from doing it again?:o