He's turned yellow??

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Chidori Noodlez

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My supposedly common pleco has been yellow for almost 2 months I did every other day WC for 2 weeks and no change water params are 0ammo 0nitrites and 20-40 nitrates it's in between... He's eating and acting normal so wth?


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never seen that, or heard of that. But your nitrates are too high, they should never be above 10ppm.
 
Divinehammer said:
never seen that, or heard of that. But your nitrates are too high, they should never be above 10ppm.
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I'm no pleco expert I'll say that now. But really? 10ppm? I have nearly a dozen tanks in two states with house sitters for WC's and drips on some tanks and I think maintaining 10ppm nitrate is doing a fantastic job. Amazing in fact. I doubt with my experience that 10ppm is the problem.

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Divinehammer said:
never seen that, or heard of that. But your nitrates are too high, they should never be above 10ppm.
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Lower is better, but fish can tolerate well above 10ppm. Saying they should never go over that is a tad extreme.
 
First that doesn't look like a common...it looks more like a L001. Many people mistake them for a common.

Have you always had a bare tank with lights on? Those combos can make plecos 'bleach out' their normal colors
 
The light is only on a few hours a day... And nitrates are usually the orangish color in my API test... When I tested it was darker orange not red so I was off with the 40... My memory of the chart was wrong sorry...lol


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Dieselhybrid said:
I'm no pleco expert I'll say that now. But really? 10ppm? I have nearly a dozen tanks in two states with house sitters for WC's and drips on some tanks and I think maintaining 10ppm nitrate is doing a fantastic job. Amazing in fact. I doubt with my experience that 10ppm is the problem.

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I meant maintaining 20-40 is doing a good job. I don't think nitrate is the cause

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