View Full Version : R.I.P common pleco
ROLLIN
10-31-2003, 8:40 AM
I went in to look at my 66 gallon tank about 15 minutes ago, and didnt see my pleco anywhere. I looked behind the tank and there he was, still moist. I picked him up and moved him around in the tank in hopes to revive him, but no luck. I have him in a bucket now just in case he might still be alive. Water is good, ammonia/nitrite 0 and nitrates low I assume (tank gets a few water changes a week, and I dont know where my nitrate kit is). He must have went up a little to hard for an air bubble and became air borne.
:(
So sad... Sorry about your loss.
Geographer
10-31-2003, 10:25 AM
A rock in the tank fell on my pleco and kiled him. It was pretty neat.
aquariumfishguy
10-31-2003, 11:42 AM
The pleco dying was neat or the pleco himself? :confused:
SimonWoodstock
10-31-2003, 12:03 PM
wow, what are the odds of a rock falling on a fish and killing? Talk about having it coming.
that sucks rollin, it seems most of us seem to know that feeling too well when we loose a cool fish.
kveeti
10-31-2003, 1:22 PM
I'm sorry to hear that, ROLLIN.
I've had that happen a couple times, but only once to a fish I really loved. By the time I found mine, he was totally stiff and dry, must have jumped out early in the night and I didn't find him till feeding time in the morning. He was a CAE. I know most people don't like them but he was cool, he used to eat with his sucker mouth from my fingers, it tickled.
Geographer
10-31-2003, 5:29 PM
The pleco was not neat at all. It was neat how he died, but not neat that he died. The rock falling and killing him neat to see. Neat but tragic.
blitzen25bm
11-01-2003, 2:44 AM
did you actully see the rock fall? what made it fall? i killed a pleco like that before it was in my pond under a pile of rocks and i was moving the rocks gently but but still slipped and they all fell and killed him.
Dragon_Lord_Tia
11-01-2003, 4:51 AM
i had a 30cm sail fin pleco cost me $$$$ and i put it in with my juv jag and the jag ate the plecos eye killed the pleco and chocked on the eye so it was killing 2 fish with 1 eye lol
aquariumfishguy
11-01-2003, 9:40 AM
Geo, its never "neat" when a fish dies...and the way he died wasn't "neat" either. And your post wasn't exactly comforting either...:rolleyes:
Geographer
11-01-2003, 1:42 PM
Sorry if I do not comfort you. I did not know I was here to be some grievence counsler.
NJ Devils Fan
11-01-2003, 2:30 PM
Sorry about that rollin, that stinks. How long did you have him?
ROLLIN
11-03-2003, 8:47 PM
Thanks everyone. NJ Devils Fan, I only had him for about a year. I rescued him from my brothers 15 gallon aquarium, he was almost a foot long.
It is a bummer to lose a good fish for sure. I had a betta a year ago that completely disapeared. We emptied the tank completely and still no fish. The only thing I could think of was that the 4" RTB shark might have ate it but there should have at least been some bones.