neurotik
Aquarium Advice Freak
The craziest thing just happened to me a few minutes ago so I had to make a post about it!
So back in May of this year, I bought a tiny little Rubber Lipped Pleco for my 55 gallon tank, and a day after I added him to the tank my girlfriend and I headed to New York to visit some of her family. When I returned a week later, I could not find the little guy anywhere. I searched high and low for several days and had no luck at all, so I was convinced that he had either died and the other fish picked him apart or something killed him. I searched all over the tank to see if he somehow got out of the tank, but I saw nothing. My tank had no ammonia or nitrite spikes either which would have signaled that a fish had died earlier that week.
Fast forward from May 15th until about five minutes ago. I just got home, sat down and I looked over at my tank and I noticed a Pleco on the back of the glass in my tank and he looked much lighter in color than my Bristlenose Plecos that I have in there, and his fins were also short (my BN are long-finned). I quickly jumped up and went closer to my tank and discovered that it was my Rubber Lip! He is now pretty much fully grown and looks nice and healthy. I can't believe he is still alive and I have absolutely no idea where the heck he was hiding for all of these months, haha.
I'll try to get a picture of him as soon as he comes out from hiding behind some plants. I just couldn't help but make a post about this. My girlfriend and I are both so surprised to see him.
So back in May of this year, I bought a tiny little Rubber Lipped Pleco for my 55 gallon tank, and a day after I added him to the tank my girlfriend and I headed to New York to visit some of her family. When I returned a week later, I could not find the little guy anywhere. I searched high and low for several days and had no luck at all, so I was convinced that he had either died and the other fish picked him apart or something killed him. I searched all over the tank to see if he somehow got out of the tank, but I saw nothing. My tank had no ammonia or nitrite spikes either which would have signaled that a fish had died earlier that week.
Fast forward from May 15th until about five minutes ago. I just got home, sat down and I looked over at my tank and I noticed a Pleco on the back of the glass in my tank and he looked much lighter in color than my Bristlenose Plecos that I have in there, and his fins were also short (my BN are long-finned). I quickly jumped up and went closer to my tank and discovered that it was my Rubber Lip! He is now pretty much fully grown and looks nice and healthy. I can't believe he is still alive and I have absolutely no idea where the heck he was hiding for all of these months, haha.
I'll try to get a picture of him as soon as he comes out from hiding behind some plants. I just couldn't help but make a post about this. My girlfriend and I are both so surprised to see him.
