Apistos and plecos.

[Kirkl240]

I recently bought 5 3” leopard frog plecos and will be here next week. My question is will it be safe to put my breeding pairs of apistos in with them as long as I make sure they have there own caves or would I need to make other arrangements. Thanks for any feedback

 

[Im a Doughball]

If you'd like your apistogramma to produce fry, and you'd like your new plecos to keep their eye balls, I'd wager other arrangements are in order...

 

[Ade205]

If you'd like your apistogramma to produce fry, and you'd like your new plecos to keep their eye balls, I'd wager other arrangements are in order...

Have to agree. I recently had to house a few juvenile Cacatuoides in my main Discus display tank before I moved them on. I'd no idea that in the two weeks they were in there that they'd bred untill I witness an l260 try to dart for cover into into a small hole under a peice of wood as I approached the tank. What followed was savage as the brooding female Cac in said hole went ballistic! The fairly expensive l260 survived as did his eyeballs, but often this isn't the case!!

All mite be fine with your tank and fish, but I'd advise against it.

Ade.

 

[Kirkl240]

Have to agree. I recently had to house a few juvenile Cacatuoides in my main Discus display tank before I moved them on. I'd no idea that in the two weeks they were in there that they'd bred untill I witness an l260 try to dart for cover into into a small hole under a peice of wood as I approached the tank. What followed was savage as the brooding female Cac in said hole went ballistic! The fairly expensive l260 survived as did his eyeballs, but often this isn't the case!!

All mite be fine with your tank and fish, but I'd advise against it.

Ade.

Thanks for all the info cause I had no idea. I was more worried about the apistos. I will definitely make other arrangements.

 

[Linus_Cello]

Another concern may be what you are feeding. Though L134 are carnivorous, too much meaty food may lead to bloat issues. This is more of an issue with discus and beef heart.

 

[bbetta]

I’ve always had issues when keeping plecos with apistogramma. Sometimes my ancistrus would eat the eggs at night and on some instances they were being chased all around the tank (gladly there was never a serious injury) . I’d advise against it too.

 

[Kirkl240]

Okay thanks. I appreciate all the input.