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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
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Subject: Re: Flying Foxes and Hair Algae
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Date: 17 Jan 90 13:34:14 GMT
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In article <24836@gryphon.COM> richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>and over plecos because everybody knows you
>can't keep plecos alive.

Having heard this comment from others, too, I am truly puzzled.  My wife and
son keep a goldfish and a pleco in a 2.5 gallon tank (which had only a corner
filter until I added a sponge filter a short time ago).  No heater, and
we keep the house no higher than 64 during the day, 58 at night.

The pleco has been alive for a year.  (Of course, he doesn't move much so
maybe I just *think* he's been alive for a year :-).)

Did the fish store lie to us when we bought this fish?  It sure looks like
a pleco to me, but I'm fairly ignorant.  If it is a pleco, and they are so
hard to keep, and they do need warm water, why is the fish alive?  (And
happy, so far as I can tell; keeps his fins at full display (whenever he isn't in spot so tight that he can't.)

Are there hardier pleco varieties?
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