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Gold Nugget Pleco
Baryancistrus xanthellus
Family: Loricariidae
📍 Rio Xingu, Brazil
Gold nugget plecos are stunning loricariids with a dark body covered in bright yellow spots and yellow-tipped fins. They are territorial and require warm, oxygen-rich, fast-flowing water with driftwood. They are algae scrapers that also need protein in their diet.
Keeping this species
- diet
- Omnivore – algae wafers, vegetables, sinking carnivore pellets, driftwood
- lifespan
- 8–12 years
- max size
- 25 cm (10 in)
- tank size
- 50 gallons minimum
- temperament
- Semi-aggressive toward conspecifics
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Water it likes
- ph
- 6.0–7.5
- ammonia
- 0 ppm
- nitrate
- <20 ppm
- hardness
- 2–15 dGH
- temperature
- 79–86°F (26–30°C)
Natural Habitat Temperature
79°F — 82°F seasonal range · (Jan low, Mar high)