I do understand the tank will be overcrowded when the fish mature, but I plan on moving fish to other tanks as required.
I run a wet/dry filter (20g), Amonia/Nitrites stay at 0, Nitrates hover around the 15 ppm with 50% every second day water changes, fish are extremely healthy, beautiful colours in all. The fish get fed a varied diet of , Beefheart, Tetra ColorBits, Flake food, live Brine Shrimp (hatched my self), live Guppies (bred my self) Algea wafers, Zuchini, Green Peas.
Now onto my question. The Sailfin Pleco poo's a lot, and I mean a lot, I took the picture below this morning, I done a gravel vac, 50% water change last night, there was no poo in the tank then. To give you an idea of how much poo that is, the hollow log you can see on the left, is about a foot round.
Is this normal? When I researched the fish, people mentioned them poo'ing a lot, but I figured with water changes every two days, I'd have no problems keeping on top of it.
It can't be healthy for the other fish to have so much poo in the tank can it?
Any replies would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Dave
Just some follow up info for any one that's interested.
My Pleco poo problem seems to have sorted itself out.
The Pleco has started really chowing down on the zuchini, him and the Bristle Nose are now going through a quarter of a medium sized zuchini each night, where before, they'd only eat around a tenth of that in a night. Poo production has slowed considerably, I'm only having to clean the gravel every second or third water change.