hinz101
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Oct 9, 2007, 10:49 PM
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Re: [janeen1014] janitor fish in a koi pond
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ey janeen
for me its not a good idea to place a janitor fish
together with your kois for when it runs out of
food to eat it will prey on your kois. there was
a news years ago bout a tilapia farm being
obliterated by these janitor fish and there was
one time a janitor was seen on top of the koi
sucking on it furtunately it was abrupted. no
serious injuries were sustained by the koi but
some of its scales were torn apart.
this info is not to deter anyone from buying those
kinds of fish but its there nature (plecostomus)
do this kind of things when they dont have anything
on there table. heres something i got from the
web bout janitors with other fish.
Plecostomus aggression to other fish:
Plecos just love to suck on ailing goldfish, discus, and other fat bodied fish. Avoid adding them together. There is one pet store near me that has about 20 tanks of fancy goldfish. Every tank has a small plecostomus and at any time, half of them are sucking on a goldfish. The employees apparently believe that any damage overshadows their algae cleaning abilities (in other words, they are too lazy to clean off the algae and do not care about the goldfish). My pleco probably killed the two rosy barbs with him even though he was 9 inches long and they were only about 1.5 inches long. Before that he harmed my goldfish.
hope this info will help you.
hinz
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