I got a new tank, 18 gallons set up yesterday and started cycling.
I was mostly using fresh/dry driftwood, but I got one piece with an Anubius grown on it from a LFS. Apparently it came with this little guy.
The tank has some cycled media, mainly the Anubius on driftwood from the store, and a black lava rock from my existing tank, the rock had only been in my fully established tank for about 2 weeks before moving it into the new tank so it might not have ajd that much bacteria on it.
Before realizing this guy was in there I added some ammonia sources, an algae wafer and some tropical fish food.
Will he be okay in here going through the cycle? I can move him into my current tank, 4.5 gallons with a Betta (temporary tank, my Betta will be moving to the 18 gallon as soon as it's ready) but I think my Betta will make him into a snack.
And any ideas on what exactly he is??? Once he's big enough to not be eaten by my Betta will they be able to get along?
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Sorry forgot to add my parameters.
pH 6.8
gh below 1
kh about 2
Ammonia, nitrite and Nitrates I’m not sure if. I usually take water from my existing tank to my LFS to be tested since they do free water testing, so I don’t have a test kit on hand to check these.
It’s difficult to tell the size of the fish from the photos, but to me it doesn’t look small enough for a betta to eat it. It looks like the sort of fish a betta would ignore entirely.
Some kind of juvenile pleco. Probably something in the ancistrus or baryancistrus group
Starlight Pleco?
That poor thing is starving 🙁