Subj : Re: Pleco uproots plants

Subj : Re: Pleco uproots plants
To : All
From : Charles
Date : Fri Jan 16 2004 08:43 pm

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 21:07:23 -0000, "Ron Hagley"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>just found you and have a major problem I hope you may be able to help me
>with. I have a 48" x 18" x 15 " Juwel with white silica sand as a base for
>planting into. Unfortunately I also have a 10" Pleco which seems to revel in
>disturbing the sand and consequently uprooting the plants in his attempts to
>get under everything. I wonder if putting a layer of silica sand and then a
>porous plastic mesh before the final layer of silica would help solve this
>problem. I could then plant into the top layer and the roots would hopefully
>work through the mesh into the bottom layer. Any thoughts on this or
>alternative suggestions - I don't really want to lose Pleco as he is such a
>character but..........
>
>Best wishes
>Ron
>

First thing I would try is to give the pleco a place to hide, a cave
or something similar.

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- Charles
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