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I am so bloody sick of people who want a plecostamus because they think it will clean their tank. And those who think they are s**t eaters. And those who say they have alot of algae. PLECOS ARE CRAPPER FISH, NOT CLEANER FISH. THEY THEMSELVES POOP ALOT. PLECOS CANNOT LIVE ON JUST ALGAE, THEY DO NOT EAT POOP EITHER. THE REASON WHY YOU HAVE ALOT OF ALGAE WILL PROBABLY KILL YOUR PLECO!. In the wild plecos mainly eat leafy vegetation. They cannot survive on just algae, they need supplementation with algae wafers, spinach, cucumber, zucchini, shrimp pellets, driftwood/bog wood, and those dried algae sheets. A healthy aquarium isnt going to have that much algae.
I also want to hurt those who think that if they keep the pleco in a tiny tank it wont get any bigger. THAT IS THE SAME AS KEEPING A CHILD IN A CLOSET OR A LARGE BREED PUPPY IN THE CUBBARD UNDER THE BATHROOM SINK. Common plecos grow to 2 ft and should be allowed to do so. There are smaller species of plecostomus that are better suited to smaller tanks, they usually cost a little more but are well worth it. Bushynose plecos, and bulldog plecos only get 5 inches, while the clown pleco only gets about 3-4 inches.

http://www.petlibrary.com/fw_trop_plecostomus.htm

Soon Plecos will be outlawed, here is a picture of a 4 lb pleco caught down in florida where they aren't native evil

I have a 8 inch common pleco that some guy was gonna release here in upstate new york because it was no longer doing his "job". scream