Blue-Eyed Pleco

Blue-eyed pleco have been kept as aquarium fish, and were decently mainstream the same time as the 1980's and early 1990's.

The blue-eyed pleco (Panaque cochliodon), is a herbivorous freshwater armored catfish from South America. It is nearly identified with the famous plecostomus catfish kept in a large number of aquaria as a pond greenery eater, but is quickly recognized by being dull grey to dark and having shining, turquoise coloured eyes. Love alternate species of the Panaque class, P. cochliodon sustains essential on submerged wood.

Blue-eyed pleco develop to about 30 cm in length, and prefer different Panaque spp; they are maladroit swimmers acclimates to staying shut the substrate, specifically utilizing the sucker-such as mouth to keep onto submerged shakes and wood.

As with alternate Panaque, the aforementioned fish are usually solid and simple to keep, granted that parasitic, Rickettsia-like microorganisms might be a situation, absolutely when recently foreign made. The proposed fish delight in an intermingled weight control plan of rockweed, crude vegetables for example courgette, and wood, much similar to the more broadly kept Panaque nigrolineatus. A protein-rich eating regimen might as well be escaped, as it will effect in harms to their inside organs, particularly the liver.