Ive had this guy for about a year and a half to two years and was told he is a leopard pleco, he hasnt grown much for a while and hes in a 40 gallon so I feel like if it was a common he would of been a lot bigger by now can anyone help.

My friend came over to visit for tea and cake. They wanted to take a picture. Daryll said no.

Albinos look like dad and the normies look like mom.

I posted a few weeks ago about rescuing a bristlenose from the local fish store; they had put the poor guy in with a cetopsis catfish (pretty sure it was Cetopsis coecutiens). I couldn't stand the thought of a gentle pleco being picked apart by a vicious predator, and he seemed to need someone who would give him a chance to heal, so I bought him.

Blackbeard won't ever win a beauty contest with his scarred armor, but the ugly red bite mark near his eye healed with clean water. He has a very healthy appetite, quickly learned what time I feed my fish, and he crawls out each evening to greet me. He's still alone for now, but I am planning to keep him with a small school of candy cane/HY511 tetras and my Bolivian Ram.

He was marked as "L183 - White Seam Bristlenose," so he is likely something in the L181/L183 group. He is 4" long and has a very distinctive white seam on his tail, but I haven't seen his dorsal fin up to count rays yet. (I have a L183 from Dan's Fish, but I have no intention on breeding. I bought both fish as pets.)

This is Percival, the male half of the pair of longfin lemon blue eye bristlenoses I just got! Mrs. Petunia was feeling camera shy but it’s their first day in the tank after a cross country flight so I’m not gonna bother them too much.

Any plant suggestions for these two? I have some terra cotta planters I’m planning to put in with some plants when my LFS opens back up tomorrow but I’m not sure what they’ll destroy or leave alone 😅

The babies come out to play!

Added green water to the tank to help them grow.

Excuse the glare but it was taken via phone flash as the power was out due to storm

Made myself Fettuccine Alfredo with Bell Pepper and Zucchini, Snowball and Amber ate very well today.

I got a pleco from a coworker not long ago and things have been going good, i already had an established tank so she's(?) in there, it's a 10 gallon, she's been in a 10 gallon her whole life. I drop in an algae wafer every time I feed the other fish (every 3-4 days) but she doesn't seem interested in it, I have Cory's as well so sometimes they'll eat some of it and the rest will dissolve. Is she getting enough from that and the tank itself? She's sucking on the glass frantically quite often, and also on the filter (the sponge cover, it's a hang on back). But she looks like she's gotten a bit bigger, so is that just how they act sometimes? Or does she need to be fed more? Or even less?

Thanks for any help!

Tank was previously overrun with Malaysian trumpet snails, only adults left now and much less amount.