I've been trying to get a picture of my Pleco since I joined here. He's REALLY shy. Spends all the daylight hours hiding in his cave. This morning I got up for work and saw him laying out in the LED "moonlight". I tip-toed past the tank thinking for sure he would bolt like he always does, he DIDN'T! The lights in the house were off, so I don't think he saw me. I grabbed the camera and literally crawled across the room to the tank. I got up slowly onto my knees and saw that he was still there, so I covered the red "focus-assist" light on the camera so it wouldn't startle him and snapped a picture with the flash on. I thought sure he would bolt after the flash, but he STILL didn't...so I took another pic. Since he still didn't move, I got bold and stood up slowly. Managed to get off a few more shots before he got tired of the psycho paparazzi snapping his picture.
Normally he keeps his dorsal fin upright when he isn't hiding, but not this morning...
Normally he keeps his dorsal fin upright when he isn't hiding, but not this morning...