Thanks for the replies guys. I will have to see if I can move these guys to a different tank, rehome them or get an additional heater (my current heater cannot seem to increase the temperature above 24 degrees at full power due to water volume).

Hi, I am new to the forum and have a question regarding my L340 Mega Clown Pleco's (3X).

When I bought them at my LFS they told me they would do fine in the water parameters/setup I specified:

Large 220G community tank with lots of rockwork and driftwood, sand substrate
PH: 6.8
Temp: 24C / 76F ...

The gravel in your picture looks less sharp than mine indeed, although I would be afraid that lots of debris would get stuck between these larger stones (which I heard could also be bad for the cory's). My substrate is the typical small gravel you see in lots of aquaria, and the sand is playsand, so ...

Thanks for the quick replies! My cory's already spend much of the time on the sand, especially because that is the place where I feed them (sinking tablets, bloodworms etc), and they are sifting through it to find scraps long afterwards. When they are resting they move onto the gravel to hide ...

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Hi I am Ramon and recently set up a tank (150L) with a group of seven Corydoras trilineatus. I divided the Tank in an open sand patch (1/3 of total substrate coverage) surrounded by large rocks to avoid mixed substrates. Outside of this open patch I have a planted substrate layer of ...