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Panaque Missing an eye
Posted: 03 Aug 2006, 18:25
by RogerMcAllen
So I just bought a Royal Plec. When I was taking pictures to get a location ID, I noticed that he was missing an eye. There is no clear wound, suggesting that this has happened some time far in the fish's past.
Assuming that he has fully healed and won't get infected, is there anything wrong with a one-eyed plec?
Posted: 03 Aug 2006, 18:45
by MatsP
Shouldn't be a huge problem. If you keep it with other large plecos, it may be a bit disadvantaged in terrotorial disputes and such...
I've got a one-eyed tetra, and it's doing fine, except it tend to keep to one side of the bunch, because it can't see it's conspecifics on when the are on the other side, so it turns around looking for them... Don't know how this one got lost, just discovered it was missing [I suspect the Angel-fish in the same tank, but not sure].
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Mats
Posted: 03 Aug 2006, 18:53
by RogerMcAllen
Right now he is the big guy at 3". His tankmates are Ancistrus sp. 3, L-183, and L-260 so I'm not too worried about this changing any time soon. They in a 55 gallon (soon to be 125 gallon)tank heavily stocked with wood.
If he's happy I'm happy