>  > need a large tank in a year or so for them :)  my last pleco was
 >  > 19 inches long, now to tail and about 2.5 inches across the head 
 >  > at its eyes ;)
 > 
 >  JV> What size tank was that?  :)
 > 
 > 30 gallon... he was in there with my female albino oscar that got
 > up to about 12 inches long from nose to base of tail ;)

 CS> Sounds like an overloaded tank .

nah, not really... define "overloaded"... AFAIK, overloaded means
too many fish for the biologics... i've never had any problems with disease
or biologics... at that time, there were only the two fish in the tank...
they started in that tank when they are toddlers only about as long as your
thumb ;)

 CS> We plan to setup the 70gallon tank in the near future.

i've plans, somewhere around here, for building a 100Gal or 200Gal tank...
the problem is where to put it... with the 30 and two 20s in the living
room, and several others with nothing in them, there's just no room... it
is bad enough that the 30 is up beside the TV on the wall unit :)

)\/(ark