Have you ever kept a golden nugget pleco and what's your experience?

I've never kept them but I purchased some things from a local club member who had one in a planted tank a while back. His was an l18 I believe. We talked a lot about his stock and he complained that the "blasted fish keeps eating all the plants" no matter how much he feeds it ;~;.. So while providing live plants is a necessity, do note that they'll chew on them. They also need a lot of real driftwood to and caves. He kept them with blue tetra and some other medium-small tetra like species I can't identify anymore.

They're also territorial. You a) have far too few cory and b) will likely end up with dead cories as the pleco attacks bottom dwellers. They also need to be kept in a tank with a lot of flow and high oxygenation which is the opposite requirements of cories and many danios. The gentleman I mentioned kept his tank filter with a really high power canister filter. Like there was plant movement on the opposite side of the outflow and this was a 6' long tank. He also used peat filtration. I'm fairly certain his city's water source is the same as mine and peat should push the pH down to really acidic, we have very little hardness; between 2-3 dKH straight from the tap.

I don't recall him complaining about the pleco escaping the tank and all his tanks had no lids. Usually when people claim the fish jumped out it's because it's water parameters weren't being met and it's trying to escape toxicity and/or there are a lot of yummy snacks tempting it to leave its home i.e. fruit flies flying about.

I'd recommend rehousing the molly by the way. Tetras, danios, and cories normally fall in the acidic water range while molly should be kept in alkaline and even salted to brackish water for optimal health. I mean, they're hardy fish and will likely survive but you're compromising the health of either end of the pH spectrum species you have right now whose parameters are not being met.

Good source of information:

http://www.planetcatfish.com/shanesworld/shaneswor...