pleco killed my 2 yr old ocsar

i thought they weren't as aggressive as the chinese

The common type fish store plecos are nocturnal, and they have been known to actually suck the slime coat off other fish who prefer to rest at night. Fish stores don't always tell you that. Like most people when I started in the aquarium hobby, I thought plecos were fascinating. However, after keeping them for several years, I discovered that they make a bigger mess than they clean up. The last one I had met his demise when the front glass cracked in a 55 gallon aquarium, which subsequently lost all of its water.

oh that sucks where you flooded?

Yes, it made a mess, but most of the houses in Phoenix are built on a cement slab. The cleanup took a good bit of mop work, but the glass pick up wasn't too bad, and the only real damage was to the aquarium. It taught me to make sure the aquarium stand sits on the floor solidly and that it supports the tank without over stressing any one part. I already knew how to mop.

I had a pleco in each of my Angel breeding tanks, just to try to help get the algae under control. Well they did, but then they got TOO BIG!!! I always turned out the lights in my tanks since they were in the bedroom. Well... The plecos started giving the angels a hard time. Now I leave the lights on in 2 of my 3 breeding tanks. That seems to keep the plecos at bay...

I want to keep them for my 300 when we get the addition done... but they're a pain in the butt!

mydadde wrote:

i thought they weren't as aggressive as the chinese

I can hardly believe they are the reason.
I had plecos with oscars that were leaving years together.

I mean unless your pleco was something like this...

they had one that big at a lfs maybe even bigger

The monster from plecostomus penitentiary. Actually, they're not all slime suckers, but once the slime sucking starts it seldom ceases. The bristlenose plecos are reputed to behave in a much more acceptable manner.

PS: The big fish reminds me of a female black molly I once saw in a Dallas aquarium shop. Apparently, she had been raised in an outdoor pond and was at least one foot long.

WOW!!
The sizes fish can get on the wild is amazing.

Cool Picture! I can't help but wonder seriously if it's dead or stunned or something though.

I was moving one of my 2 rather large (but not that big) plecos into another tank, and he wouldn't hold still... He thrashed around and soaked the entire living room... I couldn't net him... from experience... he shredded my last net... so I was trying to catch him... and once I got ahold of him, he thrashed like there was NO TOMORROW!!! It just doesn't look like that boy has ahold of it tight enough for it to be awake and all...

If you had a picture of me with mine... (like 10-12" long) my hair would be wet, as my shirt and my pants... and I would be VERY frazzled looking!!! LOL!!! Not calmly posing with the giant! LOL!!! It makes me laugh just thinking of seeing me in a picture that day!

Me too. It sounds like you were in a pleco pickle.::

It was a mess... coulda been on funniest home videos though!!!

LOL!