damaged plants

[ohmar606]

Do plecos cause this kind of damage to theplants?
the only thing i can think of is that he is sucking them and killing them.
any ideas, its a 12 gallons tank, nothing special never have had an issue before. plants.jpgsorry for the bad pic, it was taken with my blackberry.

[Raimondi]

I introduced a pleco in my aquarium and it did that to my amazon swords. I don't mixed them anymore.

[Sea-agg09]

Pleco's eat plants more than algae. Oto's are far better in small aquaria

[kwc1974]

Yes, but it looks like the main cause is nutriant difficancy.

Nirogen, Potassium, phospate and Iron