Plecostamus attacked my hand and its bleeding!

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I didn't feed my plecostamus for 3 days and I decided to try hand feeding him. He smelled the water for about 5mins looking for the location of the food. He finally krept out of his cave and i had the wafers in my hand so he started chasing everything within a foot of him. He has scars all over his body from headbutting the other plecos and missing. Once he tried to kill 1 of my smaller discus but he missed and rammed himself headfirst straight into my heater. The glass shattered instantly but I have a reliable heater with an auto shuttoff switch so I just replaced it. Then he ripped off half the suckermouth of my smaller male bushynose. I had never tried handfeeding him before. I have red suckermouth imprints with teethmarks all over my arm and he punctured my index and thumb with his gill thorn things. He was attacking me for the wafers. Suctioned onto my arm and starting biting me everywhere. And his tail was flailing everywhere. This pleco is so MEAN. I took pics of my arms but I can't upload the pictures. My mom says I might need stitches. If I do just a few probably. This happened 30 minutes ago. The pleco is 6" TL. He is a common bristlenose.
 
Pics or it didn't happen ;)
 
2 things:

1) a story like that HAS to have pictures to legitimize it
2) if the pleco has a history of being freakishly and borderline unrealistically mean, why would you think hand feeding it would be a good idea?

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