Patio Tanks Rock!

[Ulu]

Thank you T L.
I have always got a great deal of satisfaction and joy from the things that I’ve built.

Particularly the successful ones. LOL

I’ve certainly built some failures in my day.
Now little sunflower is a fish keeping failure. He’s living in the patio, in the brown barrel, as a quarantine.

I finally decided he would survive for while longer in spite his huge tumor or cyst. I gave him a foam filter and a heater, and an insulated lid.

 

[duanes]

Considering the rate with which these Pleco‘s and cichlids are willing to hybridize, none of this tends to surprise me.

I can’t really tell from the pictures how large those fish are but I’m imagining the peco is around 6 inches and the others maybe four?

It is around 6", you hit the nail on the head.
Some others I caught and threw back, were found further west, but I believe they are a different species, the fish in the Mamoni seem unique compared to other rivers.

Above is part of the Chagres river system, near La Chorrera, 2 hours drive west of the Mamoni.
I believe these large Plecos (12" +) from Chorrera are a different species.

Above in a 5 gallon bucket.

 

[Ulu]

Lots of spots and no bristles? I don’t have anything that looks like that.