So I was reading the Wikipedia article on Common Plecos...

[Desert Bus]

So I was reading the Wikipedia article on Common Plecos (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleco), and I wasn't seeing anything new to me, until I got to this, under Etymology:

"Plecostomus fish have been known to get 5 feet in length with unverified sightings in the wild of 8 feet."

I've been on this board awhile, read god knows how many threads, and haven't seen any Plecos over 3 feet.

Wikipedia: 99% right, 1% very very wrong.

 

[Warborg]

I guess I'd better get rid of mine now, I don't have a tank big enough

 

[grease monkey]

i have seen a royal plec on about 23" but the guy said he had the fish for about 13-15yrs.. not sure if its true though..

 

[thepwner70]

Things like that get really big in the wild cause they have more space to grow and more food to eat.

 

[thepwner70]

ill show you look on google and type in big pleco there like half the size of me im not short im 5,8

 

[Desert Bus]

ill show you look on google and type in big pleco there like half the size of me im not short im 5,8

Half of 5'8" doesn't come anywhere near to 5'. Just stating the facts here.

 

[jprp]

ill show you look on google and type in big pleco there like half the size of me im not short im 5,8

No offence but that is fairly short.

Remember humans have been recorded over 8ft 11in (Robert Wadlow).

 

[K.Galvin]

I have been keeping tropicals for 21 years now and have never heard of a 5 ft "plec"!.I have two in a 6x2x2 tank for 3 years now, previously they were each in a 48"x12"x18" for at least 4 years.
They are both about 11" in length now, The largest plec I have seen is about 18"-20" in a shop in London.

 

[matubula]

The only (known) plec capable of reaching near 5ft would be the Acanthicus adonis but even they max out at around 4ft. I think the person who wrote it is having a 'giraffe'.

 

[Muni]

Any pleco over 20" is very old and has had lots of room a food.