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Clown Pleco
Panaque maccus
Family: Loricariidae
📍 Venezuela & Colombia
The Clown Pleco is a small, attractively patterned plecostomus with bold yellow-and-black tiger-stripe markings on a compact 8–10 cm body, making it one of the most manageable pleco species for community tanks. Unlike most plecos it is primarily a wood eater (xylivore) and must have driftwood available to gnaw on. It is a cavity dweller that benefits from PVC pipes or hollow wood to use as territory.
Keeping this species
- diet
- Herbivore/Xylivore – driftwood (essential), algae wafers, blanched zucchini, cucumber
- lifespan
- 10–12 years
- max size
- 10 cm (4 in)
- tank size
- 20 gallons minimum
- temperament
- Peaceful; males territorial with other plecos
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Water it likes
- ph
- 6.5–7.5
- ammonia
- 0 ppm
- nitrate
- <20 ppm
- hardness
- 3–15 dGH
- temperature
- 73–84°F (23–29°C)
Natural Habitat Temperature
77°F — 82°F seasonal range · (Jan low, Apr high)