Plecostomus Photos

Pleco of the day. I was trying to get a pic of the green phantom with the yellow fins/tail but it was not cooperative. So you get this one.
I really should clean the front of that tank.

 

My new pleco! Just brought him home from the store today, a beautiful albino bristle. He doesn’t have a name yet

 

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My Pleco Percy has become quite vain in recent weeks.....just today I caught him gazing into his own eyes.....

"Oh....I am so handsome......go on....give us a kiss"

 

I visited Baby Barge at my LFS. Baby barge is my smaller Rhino I returned in a rental exchange.
Looks like they are not feeding him/her enough so I will have to bring a zucchini. The other fish is an adult low grade cactus.



Barge is in another tank and is MUCH larger. We are talking about me bringing in a carved jack O'Lantern for Halloween so Barge can eat/live in it.

And in the "Must not buy!" category the sunshine still lives there. I would buy it if they had 5 others for a colony. I love the body form of sunshines. 2 sunshines and 2 orange spots came in. 1 Sunshine still remains. Man do I want a group of those... I'd love a group of orange spots also.

 

PM and her minions

 

Just got this little guy over the weekend! He's so tiny!

 

neat morph/mutation. This is Eli. ElI is not old enough to breed. I'm not even sure of the sex yet.

 

Went to the LFS to buy black worms. Managed to not buy a group of Queen Arabesques or Sultans. Did not make it out unscathed though.


single mustard.

 

My little boy (or girl) Jamal. I do believe he’s a boy though because he’s already beginning to grow his bristles and he chases my corys around during feeding time

 

My husband's new Rubbernose pleco he picked out last night, Rhuk.

 

Here is a pleco being bad at cave. If you only leave a roof you have a gazebo not a cave.

 

Green phantom! About 7.5”

 

Here is my BN Jamal along with other crew members

 

Gibby week 1. So small so scared.



Gibby week 2. less small, less scared.



EDIT to avoid merge:

2 plecos going back home. My kitchen table happens to have a cave on it, that is not a tank in the background.



Lets hope that discussions about cave ownership are handled maturely.

 

If I am vewy vewy quiet, sometimes, early in the morning, if I act quickly after the room lights are turned on, I can spot my clown pleco sometimes. I finally got her to sit still long enough to get a photo!

 

Good at cave



Bad at cave



Or maybe they are just jerks trying to collapse the other pleco's homes..
I need to try designing my own caves for them. Flat piece of clay with a raised area in the middle so they can find the raised area and then dig out their own cave. They love digging.

Oh and week 3 gibby. As they get bigger I'm really questioning if they are gibbiceps. Their dorsal fins are not close to what a similar sized rhino would have and they should be bigger unless they do not get the mighty dorsal fin until adulthood.

 

Our elusive female BN who we call Plecopotamus, though we’ve debated changing her name to The Doctor since she’s declared the aquarium TARDIS to be hers.

Admittedly, she’s been much less elusive since I started offering her Repashy soilent green - she pops out as soon as her piece hits the bottom. She’s apparently not a fan of algae wafers, as she would never deign to leave her TARDIS for them.

 

My elusive female BN. I hardly see her so these pics took a while!

 

Young male long fin albino who’s nearly as big as his dad.


Younger sibling, hopefully female. I’m growing out a few in hopes of getting a long finned female for breeding.

 

Good at cave

Bad at cave

Or maybe they are just jerks trying to collapse the other pleco's homes..
I need to try designing my own caves for them. Flat piece of clay with a raised area in the middle so they can find the raised area and then dig out their own cave. They love digging.

Oh and week 3 gibby. As they get bigger I'm really questioning if they are gibbiceps. Their dorsal fins are not close to what a similar sized rhino would have and they should be bigger unless they do not get the mighty dorsal fin until adulthood.
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I have a group of 6 juvie L134s and one insists on making his own cave between a watering spike and cracked pot. I also made my own caves out of slate tiles.
This was during a water change but you can see the maverick on the right. Homemade cave on the left.

Yeah mine has a healthy crop of bristles but they are all short and not like a face-forest like some I've seen.

Female BNs usually don't have any bristles or very short ones but they don't grow up the snout like males. My female BN is about 5" and has no bristles.

 

Yeah mine has a healthy crop of bristles but they are all short and not like a face-forest like some I've seen.

If they are going up his face then its a male, even if they are short. If they are just around the mouth then it could be a female.

Here's my bristlenose, stressed at my presence and patchy as always.

 

My female BN made an appearance tonight so I snapped a pic.

 

Our Male Albino BNP Kevin:

 

Yeah I guess I have a boy lol. I hadn't gotten a good look at his face lately!

 

Here is another picture of my flash pleco - I should get a better one of the tail since it is much more interesting than the bn's tail - I guess it is not full grown yet but I really like this pleco - it has a lot of character. I'm not sure if all flash have character or just this individual. He (or is it a she?) is still a bit shy but generally tolerance of my walking across the room - I think it is more hesitant around the bn pleco than myself. When I get a bigger tank I think I'll get 2 or 3 more.

 

Young calico bristlenose, he got stroppy with the corys as he matured so went back to my friend who bred him.

 

Juvenile Royal Pleco

 

2 o
f my 7 different plecos.

 

Female BN next to my EBA fry. No, she didn't snack on them even though they were swimming all around her face.



Moved my L253 Sunshines into the pleco tank.

 

My BN, I guess I have a male

 

I have no clue but my female doesn't' really have any bristles. Maybe she shaves ? I presume she is full grown as she is approx 16 months old. I have a male but they mostly ignore each other so no baby pleco for myself. Just as well they aren't the nicest looking plecos i've seen. Image quality isn't that great because I zoomed in - she is not camera friendly so if I get too close I don't get to take a picture. Now if she was a gold zebra the story would be different. They would pose and smile and do flips for the camera.

 

Just added Gloria my new Colombian Pleco

 

These are my 2 BN plecos.

Neptune is my male, the smaller one on the leaf. I've had him since January and the photo is actually older as he is very hard to get a decent photo of. He is in the 30 gallon tank with my larger female. He was very tiny when I got him from the LFS and now is close to 3 inches long and his bristles are coming in along the side of his nose and up (which is my guess that it's a male vs female)

Jupiter is actually a rehome. I got her when a friend found her and some other fish in an apartment, abandoned. So I rehomed them and they are thriving. I'm guessing she is about a year old. She is 5 inches from nose to tail, quite hefty too. She was shy but she is coming out more.






1 & 2: Jupiter, 5 inch female


Neptune, 3 inch male (old photo from about a month ago or so)

 

He chewed a hole in the middle of the cucumber

 

My 3 babies!

 

And if anyone knows the type its info I'd be interested in. Was listed simple as bn pleco at the lfs

 

I posted my pleco pics in the wrong thread.

Here are the 1-1.5" gibbys from Feb 8th.





Nugget who is close to as big and has food disputes with them. Finally happy and growing now that I have stopped blanching zuchs. I wish I had never been told to do that.



3 random plecos in the grow out. Cactus, Mustard, and I believe a Starlight.



And for those who like their L134s WIDE.

 

lights out.

 

Chubby!




That mop has been removed as his ondontodes trap him in it.