Monster Pleco

[redtailfool]

I was cleaning out pics on Drive E when i found these 2 pics . thought id share them


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v180/wesleyian/IMG_8543R2.jpg




http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v180/wesleyian/IMG_8533R.jpg

[dialphantom]

ive seen bigger but that pleco looks lik hes got a chunk missing out of his face

[BostonPatriot]

that looks like a god damned dinosaur

[mightykoreanboy]

i wonder how much a titanic panaque like that would cost

[dialphantom]

i wounder why a piece of its face is missing?

[mightykoreanboy]

maybe they took out its spikes

[dialphantom]

are u joking

[mightykoreanboy]

im just guessing cuz thats where its spikes is supposed to be located right?

[Steve_89]

Woah!

How old do you think that specimen would be??

[unknownuza13]

that's weird cause my royal at 4-5 inches has that same part missing in his face. It is way less noticeable since he's so small...

[RockyGoldy]

Dudes..how about this pic of a red eyed specimen I took 2 mths ago?

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=549/medium/P1010269.JPG

[Oddball]

Here's another Monster

[guppy]

I'm wondering if bad netting and transfer techniques are injuring them when young. If you were to rip out ones facial spikes by shaking it from a net it was hung uo in would it grow back or woulb it scar like that?

[Vitaliy]

http://img212.exs.cx/img212/7918/pleco2.jpg

[unknownuza13]

both of my 5" royals have this part missing on their face

[dialphantom]

thats weird looks like they got bite or somthing

[fishnthings]

:WHOA: damn, those r huge, what kind get this big? anything u could find at a lfs?i want one!! :drool:

[dialphantom]

ur common pleco will get big but not like these wild plecos

[Nate_N_Nicole]

Dang those things are huge

[Oddball]

The one in my pic was posted as Pseudacanthicus histrix.

[fishnthings]

how much do the Pseudacanthicus histrix cost? i want one!!!!

[dialphantom]

histrix is a ray not a pleco

[fishnthings]

o.... thats what odball called it so...... whatever it is, any idea on the cost?

[Oddball]

dialphantom: If you got a buck for every organism (plant/animal - fossil record to present) with the species name 'histrix' you'd be a rich man. Just off the top of my head, fish-wise, there is:

Diodon histrix - Porcupine fish
Potamotrygon histrix - Histrix stingray
Hippocampus histrix - Thorny seahorse
and, of course, the monster pleco posted above.

Check your facts before you post.

[toxicfish]

I must say that is the largest pleco I ever seen!!!:headbang2 :headbang2

[rayman45]

histrix is a ray not a pleco
there is a hystrix pleco :)

[fishnthings]

:ROFL: ok, thanks guys, i didnt like sounding dumb :headbang2

[rayman45]

nevermind

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[Miles]

Not quite a monster, but big for a loricaridae!

[redtailfool]

sweet monster plecos everyone. Id let other people have plecos like that. I couldnt imagine the poop those plecs will produce. :D If i had a pond then that would be a diff story.

[rayman45]

LOL

[scarlett]

Hi guys, there is nothing wrong with the face of the titanic panaque. The "piece of the face" that is missing is the opercular odontodes which developed/dropped off with time and they will regrow again in no time. ;)

[scarlett]

There are 2 plecos with the name "hystrix". One is Acanthicus Hystrix (to 3 feet or more in the wild) and the other is Pseudacanticus Hystrix (big time pleco to 3 ft in the wild).

I had a plecofanatic friend which just paid big bucks for a 28 inch titanic panaque..... :eek:

These plecos do grow big in the amazon..... :woot: :woot: :woot:

[Gr8KarmaSF]

Could it be some type of hole in the head disease? or is that only for certain type of fish like oscars???

[wickedworm76]

in the Philippines we call these plecos "janitor fish" or "algae eaters". There was a project to rehabilitate a dying (very very very) polluted river and they put a lot of these plecos. it worked. they cleaned the river in just a year. the problem is, they ate everything including all the other fishes (like tilapias, etc.). Now that river only have a lot of 3ft plecos in it. Worse, these plecos have managed to infest other lakes creating a lot of problems to local fishermen.

[redtailfool]

in the Philippines we call these plecos "janitor fish" or "algae eaters". There was a project to rehabilitate a dying (very very very) polluted river and they put a lot of these plecos. it worked. they cleaned the river in just a year. the problem is, they ate everything including all the other fishes (like tilapias, etc.). Now that river only have a lot of 3ft plecos in it. Worse, these plecos have managed to infest other lakes creating a lot of problems to local fishermen.


Were plecos introduced by choice into the pasig river? i thought it was just introduced by accident.

[scarlett]

in the Philippines we call these plecos "janitor fish" or "algae eaters". There was a project to rehabilitate a dying (very very very) polluted river and they put a lot of these plecos. it worked. they cleaned the river in just a year. the problem is, they ate everything including all the other fishes (like tilapias, etc.). Now that river only have a lot of 3ft plecos in it. Worse, these plecos have managed to infest other lakes creating a lot of problems to local fishermen.

Goodness!!! There must be some misunderstanding. Plecos dun go around attacking other fishes which are healthy. They are scavengers and may clear up dead fishes but definitely not attack a healthy fish...where did you get these info from??? :confused:

[Oddball]

scarlett: No misunderstanding on our part. There have been tons of posts from pleco owners where the pleco developed a taste for fish slime and either injured of killed its tankmate(s) from this scraping feeding method.
My 18" royal pleco stripped the pectorals from my 24" albino aethiopicus lungfish. Another pleco I have decided pacu skin should be added to his menu.

[bboy]

Those are nice looking Plecos. Looks like they has been doing their job.

[guppy]

The plecos will also compete for food and habitat and even if they don't eat the other fish a large pleco can clean out a nest of eggs or eggsack fry in a very short time just like carp in a bass nest.

[wism_chan]

Wuah....really giant pleco....

[Lockness' Oscar]

I would be afraid the pleco might eat me.

[davo]

I would be afraid the pleco might eat me.
LOL