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    From Ron Hagley@1:278/230 to All on Friday, January 16, 2004 20:43:00
    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
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  • From Charles@1:278/230 to All on Friday, January 16, 2004 20:43:00
    On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 21:07:23 -0000, "Ron Hagley"
    <ron@hagley.charitydays.co.uk> 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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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12 to Ron Hagley on Friday, January 16, 2004 23:35:16
    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..........

    just make a section of rocks for the pleco to get under... they love to get underneath things and especially to sucker attach upside down... i almost always create a "cave" for my plecos to get under... generally two rocks standing on end and another flat one across the top of them...


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    they'll love you for ever... just make sure you give them room to grow, also...
    my last pleco was 18 inches long when i traded him in at the local pet store...
    they can get much larger than that, too...

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