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Old May 7th 04, 05:10 PM
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Default Will this tank work??

|| RedForeman ©® wrote:
|||||| just curios why does everyone keep telling me to keep it at 1
|||||| pl*co?
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||| Honestly, the common pl*co is fine, until it gets to be 8" or so,
||| then it becomes a poop factory... Literally, it can poop more than
||| any 30" of fish could.... but another reason it's almost
||| non-preferrable, is after it hits 6" or so, it stops eating algae
||| and grazes on driftwood... atleast mine has forgotten what algae
||| tastes like, it now prefers, and will tell me it wants zuchini...
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|| I always wondered if they actually eat the wood or are grazing on
|| stuff growing on the wood. Anyone know?

AFAIK, they will graze on algae on all surfaces, but require to some extent,
a wooden source of fiber, they 'rasp' their jaws across it like a sandpaper,
and munch on the dust so to speak...
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is that better??