What happened to my pleco?

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Punjabiking1500

Plecostomus
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Guys pls tell me is my boy oky?
I'm really stressing out
He is alive but seems very lathargic from couple of days

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They are nocturnal so I wouldn’t expect too much activity. As they age they get lazy, I barely see my adult female bn.
 
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The common pleco can sit in one place for hours at a time. That goes for most fish. My question is are you over scrubbing your tank?. Not having much to clean up will keep your pleco in one area mainly. Sometimes I have to move my large cave rock, because mine is in there too long.
 
Did he just go from very active to very inactive in the last few days? They can quite happily sometimes just lay in the same spot all day, I've buried mine in gravel while vacuuming and he couldn't be bothered moving.
 
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Did he just go from very active to very inactive in the last few days? They can quite happily sometimes just lay in the same spot all day, I've buried mine in gravel while vacuuming and he couldn't be bothered moving.
Yes brother he was very active
Everytime he is on a wood etc I saw fins flared and body stiff
Now he is not even able to stick to sides
Constantly drops down when he tries
Just sitting in the bottom like for 10 hours
Moving with water flow
 
Guys my gut feeling like every fishkeeper has is saying something is wrong
I thought he might be hungry coz he was looking skinny I fed him on cucumber
But he didn't eat them properly like he used to destroy cucumbers
 
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