Awesome rare fish!

[tigeroscar1996]

I just recently found out about a new species of pleco. It's not really a new species, but it's new to me. It's called a blue eyed pleco and it is probably the coolest fish I've ever seen. I dont know much about it other than it's VERY rare and VERY expensive. Feel free to post whatever you know about it.


Here's some pics.


Isn't it a beautiful fish.

 

[derekp]

I know nothing about it but it is now on my list of fish I want. Right behind a tigrinus cat. lol

 

[Oddball]

I miss the days when these were in every lfs for $30 or less.

 

[Cookie*]

Very rare find if you can find one. I thought they were no longer around.

 

[_Jessica_]

I know where one is...but they want quite the chunk of change for it.

 

[tigeroscar1996]

I heard you can still get them, but they are very rare bcause of pollution to their habitat some years ago. If you are gonna buy on It'll definately cost ya. cheapest one I've found is $650.00.

 

[taz1269u2]

nice looking fish

 

[nikond70s]

yeah these were once cheap and readily available. now they are endanger of dissapearing. price on them are in the 1k-2k range. a few members on here had some for sale before.

 

[CharlieTuna]

Nice looking fish, too bad it is endangered.

 

[Industrial]

One of our wholesalers has had them for months at over 1000$ each.

I guess they are expensive because collecting became illegal in the small area where they are most common. I think they are starting to allow collecting again, so maybe soon they will be cheap again.