Plecos

[ColdKoi]

So recently noticing some growth in my pleco, and with that, noticing maybe he’s not what I thought he was...

This pleco was sold to me as a common pleco, and maybe it’s just me but it looks like more of a high fin spotted pleco than a common...?

Picture isn’t great, and don’t adjust your tv, we're experiencing technical difficulties with the water lol

 

[Aiken Drum]

Interestingly the october edition of practical fishkeeping has an article about how 90% of store sold common plecos (plecostomus plecostomus) are actually a handful of species of pterygoplichthys with p.disjunctivus and p.paradalis being the most commonly traded. These fish have just become known as common plecos even though they arent true common plecos.

I will add that your photo does look like the photo of a true common pleco that is in the article.

 

[ColdKoi]

Interesting. One of those wonderful grey areas in the hobby lol

Bought this one at petsmart and according to their identification it looks to me like it more resembles a high fin spotted than their flavour of a common

 

[Aiken Drum]

 

[ColdKoi]

Yea that’s what I’d expect one to look like too.

This is what petsmart calls a high fin spotted. Very similar to what they show as a common, but with the ‘split’ dorsal fin (which mine has, hard to see in the pic)

 

[jake37]

Either way it is a nice looking pleco; pity it will require a 200 gallon tank in a couple of years.

 

[gilpi]

Yes, expect for it to grow and grow

 

[ColdKoi]

Love how everyone on this site always brings negativity to peoples posts in regards to tank sizes or choices of fish (everyone’s got a hate for goldfish lol)

This guy is going to have roughly 750,000gal to live in next summer. It’ll be fine...

Just to make your head spin, the pleco is in a 29g with ~20 comets

 

[jake37]

Interesting; the current largest freshwater aquarium is only 440,000 gallons; there is a 12.9 million gallon aquarium but it is salt water. It will be very interesting to see this 750,000 gal aquarium. Do you plan to put it in your living room ?

Love how everyone on this site always brings negativity to peoples posts in regards to tank sizes or choices of fish (everyone’s got a hate for goldfish lol)

This guy is going to have roughly 750,000gal to live in next summer. It’ll be fine...

Just to make your head spin, the pleco is in a 29g with ~20 comets

 

[ColdKoi]

Who said anything about a living room or an aquarium. Checkmate

 

[jake37]

Who said anything about a living room or an aquarium. Checkmate

Wow a heated pond that stays 75 all year long. That is neat. Do you use gas to heat it ?

 

[ColdKoi]

Not heated and the koi and other pleco in there do just fine so far.

Bulking up the comets a bit before they go in, they’ll go out in the spring. The little guys are just too easy of a snack for the birds and the koi probably wouldn’t be opposed to snacking on them either

 

[gilpi]

Interesting; the current largest freshwater aquarium is only 440,000 gallons; there is a 12.9 million gallon aquarium but it is salt water. It will be very interesting to see this 750,000 gal aquarium. Do you plan to put it in your living room ?

There you go, being negative!

I recently bought a Fluval filter from a lady that has a 14 inch Pleco in a 29 gallon!!! She doesn't want to get rid of it or buy a larger tank. Now, that's being positive.

 

[ColdKoi]

Lol yea I’ll be moving him out of the 29g a few days before he’s 14” long

 

[fishingBuds]

Who said anything about a living room or an aquarium. Checkmate

I hope thats artificial and private. Cause this guys mess up with nature. They are messing florida lakes.

 

[ColdKoi]

Lol here we go with the negativity again

Yes it’s a legal waterbody. They’d have to swim on land for half a mile to hit the nearest watercourse

 

[fishingBuds]

Lol here we go with the negativity again

Yes it’s a legal waterbody. They’d have to swim on land for half a mile to hit the nearest watercourse

Negativity? Reality.
Plecos are messing with florida lakes. Thats it. No negativity.
Go on, do what you love, just dont mess qith our home.

 

[ColdKoi]

Ahh yes, nothing negative about digging this up 3 weeks later just to say the same thing. Better yet it’s not even a relevant concern, as already stated it’s a closed water body