View Full Version : Sharing some of my plecos
May have posted the same plecos already..but some new shots which were just taken..
Megalancistrus sp. cf. barrae 14"
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v87/jayyquix/SA%20tank/DSC07990p.jpg
L25 Scarlet 12"
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v87/jayyquix/SA%20tank/DSC08002p.jpg
Peru green royal
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v87/jayyquix/SA%20tank/DSC08005p.jpg
Showdown!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v87/jayyquix/SA%20tank/DSC07989p.jpg
oscar300
04-30-2006, 12:47 PM
Amazing fish!!!!!!!
fishyboi
04-30-2006, 1:07 PM
DAMN, nice collection, got a tank shot?
sour_girl
04-30-2006, 1:20 PM
Wow nice Plecos!
blairsteelers
04-30-2006, 1:28 PM
that scarlet
is dope.
DAMN, nice collection, got a tank shot?
here it is
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v87/jayyquix/SA%20tank/DSC07970p.jpg
Great tank, and a lot of great plecs.
KevyKev
04-30-2006, 11:11 PM
awesome tank hos big is it?
Tai95
05-01-2006, 10:05 AM
That's an impressive collection of monsters you have. The scarlet is awsome.
fish head )'>
05-01-2006, 10:13 AM
:WHOA: :drool: :thumbsup: :clap
Those are awesome. I have not seen much of any thing that cool locally in stores.
I want to go out and get some NOW. I am out the door.
NICE!!
sauroid
05-01-2006, 1:16 PM
great collection!
nice collection. you gotta had any territorial problems with the scarlet yet? ...or the others
fishyboi
05-01-2006, 7:06 PM
DAMN nice
WyldFya
05-01-2006, 11:09 PM
Great tank, and plecs. Lot of moster plecs in there!
Daniel Machado
05-01-2006, 11:47 PM
Awesome plecos and nice tank. Congratulations. :thumbsup:
Gotta get a scarlet pleco soon. :D
Best regards.
Daniel.
wow, nice looking big boys you got there :thumbsup:
nice collection. you gotta had any territorial problems with the scarlet yet? ...or the others
the big fellas are mostly quite territorial..but given the number of big plecos and the deco..they have actually achieved a balance among themselves..if anyone intrude on another's territory, there will be some fights/jostling..but nuttin dat serious..in fact to me, dat shows they are healthy and have some fight in them!
alot of the aggression about plecos are highly overhyped, and the worst aggression actually happen in cases where one fish was overly dominant over the others, resulting in stress and even casualty in the long term. if u know how to achieve the balance, then it can be done.
i dont think that its overhyped that much. all plecos are territorial, yes, but so are a lot of fish. there are a lot of plecos that really do not get on with others, and some that just hate their own sp. (gn for common example). a big tank, and lots of hiding spots though, then you can usually sort out small problems. even so, i know that some plecos (bristlenose experience) actively hunt the weaker males and kill them
WyldFya
05-02-2006, 7:42 PM
Every pleco is different. I had a 3.5" bristlenose kill a 8" chocolate pleco, and they were together for only 2 weeks before he was found dead. The chocolate had gouges cut into him obviously by odontodes, and had lived in the tank for nearly 4 months before hand.
my mates GN took on a pleco 3 times its size so... all depends
andregurov
05-04-2006, 2:30 PM
Absolutely beautiful Megalancistus sp.. It's a shame these fish always come into the country so large and expensive. New undescribed spp. pop up all the time - do you know where yours came from?
Gorgeous tank and a breathtaking collection of plecs. You've made my day!
J
DrBranDo
05-04-2006, 5:26 PM
love the whole setup. how big? is it overcrowded???
WyldFya
05-04-2006, 6:29 PM
my mates GN took on a pleco 3 times its size so... all depends
Was it a male??? That is pretty ballsy, that would be like one of us taking on a tiger!:WHOA:
i'm not sure to be honest, i was just discussing it with him, i saw "mate" in a lose term, hes just long term staff at an lfs that i have gotten to know. i think it was with a placid pleco, maybe a Hypostomus punctatus. i think it was a limited incident
WyldFya
05-04-2006, 7:15 PM
Still pretty impressive for a pleco to go after another so big, even if it was a docile species.
the GN was a nasty bugger im told though. he didnt keep any bottom dwelling fish with it at all. just a psycho.
WyldFya
05-04-2006, 7:27 PM
My bristlenose was like that he killed a talking cat, striped raphael cat, banjo cat, pictus cat, chocolate plec, bumblebee cat. The list would have gone on but I traded him in!
lol, you must have really liked it too keep it that long. or it took you a while to find the culprit or was mass genocide
paintboi101
05-04-2006, 7:41 PM
DAMMMMN NICE TANK, the driftwood gives the nice tanish color the fish like, love that re/black pleco.
yea it is a nice L025, has some beautiful vibrant colours on it
WyldFya
05-04-2006, 7:49 PM
lol, you must have really liked it too keep it that long. or it took you a while to find the culprit or was mass genocide
it was a little of both. The banjo went first, didn't know who killed him at first, didn't know where he was either. Next was the chocolate, he was pretty obvious, and the rest was just a mass murder scene!
i would have been pissed from the banjo
WyldFya
05-04-2006, 8:08 PM
I was, he was an active banjo too. He would come out of hiding when the lights came on, or when you went to feed.
which kind of banjo we are talking about, there are a few i think going on that name
WyldFya
05-04-2006, 8:20 PM
Dysichthys coracoideus
o good thinking of the same one. yea but lots of people i know think they are ugly, i really like them
WyldFya
05-04-2006, 9:03 PM
They are really fun fish to keep, and are very interesting to watch.
they sparked my interest into whiptails
WyldFya
05-04-2006, 9:20 PM
my banjo was kept together with my whiptail, and that just got to be all kinds of confusing.
lol. i had a banjo with a pattern on it, cant remember the name
WyldFya
05-04-2006, 9:22 PM
I want to get few more of them, but they are very hard to come by around here.
i think its funny some of the exotic plecos you can get, and then you cant get a banjo
WyldFya
05-04-2006, 9:27 PM
I see them every once and a while, but they just aren't popular around here. We can get some really kick@$$ plecs, but not banjos, kinda sucks.
thats one i had, a bit different
Aquaman
05-04-2006, 9:32 PM
Beutiful tank quix. Never saw so many great looking plecs in one tank.
Congratulations :thumbsup:
WyldFya
05-04-2006, 9:36 PM
thats one i had, a bit different
I like that style of banjo.
WyldFya
05-04-2006, 9:54 PM
thanks
no worries its the mottled tailed banjo for a common name
WyldFya
05-04-2006, 9:57 PM
I've heard of those... I can't find one of the normal ones though, so it might be quite a while before I lay my hands on one of those.
these mottles are more common at my lfs than the "normal" ones
WyldFya
05-04-2006, 10:01 PM
I see probably one batch of these a year through these parts.