I'd say to rehome the plecos and if you absolutely feel you NEED a pleco, I'd get a clown pleco or a bristlenose, because as you've probably seen a billion times, common plecos grow to like 2 ft and they need massive tanks.
We are talking small plecos that I plan to put in my 40 gallon breeder lol
well, what did the plecos look like when they died/while they died/after they died?
Well one was kinda hiding behind the shielded heater for like 2 days, I thought he was dead I touched his tail fin and he was alive than 5 hours later he died, however he looked and acted perfectly fine, both were bought at Petco, tank ph floats between 6.5-6.8, dose not bother the shrimp or the betta but I usually lose one right after any fluxes within temp, example other day it hit 90f due to weather, heater is preprogrammed for 78. My filtration and plants do such a good job ammonia and nitrate are non existent. More so when I do a daily 5% water change.
Well one was kinda hiding behind the shielded heater for like 2 days, I thought he was dead I touched his tail fin and he was alive than 5 hours later he died, however he looked and acted perfectly fine, both were bought at Petco, tank ph floats between 6.5-6.8, dose not bother the shrimp or the betta but I usually lose one right after any fluxes within temp, example other day it hit 90f due to weather, heater is preprogrammed for 78. My filtration and plants do such a good job ammonia and nitrate are non existent. More so when I do a daily 5% water change.
Well one was kinda hiding behind the shielded heater for like 2 days, I thought he was dead I touched his tail fin and he was alive than 5 hours later he died, however he looked and acted perfectly fine, both were bought at Petco, tank ph floats between 6.5-6.8, dose not bother the shrimp or the betta but I usually lose one right after any fluxes within temp, example other day it hit 90f due to weather, heater is preprogrammed for 78. My filtration and plants do such a good job ammonia and nitrate are non existent. More so when I do a daily 5% water change.
Tell that to the ghost shrimp feasting on a live healthy pleco
Turtle wasn’t in the tank at the time of the wound.
I know what you wrote. I just don’t find you to be a reliable narrator of events. A ghost shrimp isn’t going to be able to take a chunk out of a common pleco, an armored catfish. I’ve seen how carnivorous painted and red eared turtles are in the wild. If anything is going to be taking chunks of flesh off a fish, it would be them.
They can given enough time, takes a superworm like a week to eat a carrot
If he could, he will. It’s what turtles do.
Ok, they’re your pets. I’m just telling you the most likely cause, but your reasoning/thinking further reinforces my own opinion of what happened.
It’s like a crime, turtle wasn’t in the tank, so if there a ghost shrimp feeding on it than it’s clearly the ghost shrimp
You’re thinking of the Whisker shrimp which are known to be predatory and aggressive, and are often confused with Ghost shrimp. Are you in fact certain you have a Ghost shrimp? A picture would help immensely. But, regardless of what shrimp species you have, I still go by my original opinion: that it was the turtle all along.
I gave a picture but here it is again
Your assumption is the turtle was in the tank when it happened but the turtle was moved to a bigger tank before it happened
