Seatown12

Hey everyone you may have read my other thread about a stocking plan but how does this sound? A 10 gallon densley planted tank with plenty of driftwood in it.

Stocking plan:
1 male betta
1 bristlenose pleco

Can anyone share any tips on bristlenose plecos to people who have expireience with them? Also would this plan be overstocked? Or can I add more fish to it. Has anyone kept plecos with bettas? What are the chances of this working? would keeping a bristlenose pleco with plants work?

namehater

bio-load wise your safe i think.

bristle nose get up to 5", so the size of the tank might be a problem for it. i dont know the dimensions for a 10g, so i may be totally wrong as well.

platy ben

Hmm, i've never heard of people keeping bettas with a bristlenose pleco, bettas usually can get along with the small otocinclus but im not sure if something as big as a bristlenose pleco would bother them.
Going to the inch per gallon rule, your tank is understocked but i wouldnt add anything else to this tank.

namehater

one of my betta's lived with my common pleco for a week, they got along just fine. may be a different story if the pleco wasnt twice the betta's size lol. i think you should do it, but i would add the pleco first, so the betta doesnt setup territory before you add the pleco

BulldogWrestler

Yeah, you're fine with that tank. That's actually similar to a tank I have in mind...

agabr123

i'm not sure that a 10 gallon would have enough of a footprint for a BN pleco to be comfortable, i'd go with one that gets even smaller such as a clown pleco if you're set on that, but i think that 3 otos would be a better choice