My Pleco is just weird. Cute story

LGooley · Apr 9, 2004

As I was doing my 25% water change tonight in my sick tank. One of my plecos came an started sucking on my hand as I was draining the water out. He wouldn't leave me alone after that. He would swim to a near by plant and if I stuck out a finger he would quickly swim back to me and sit on my hand for a while. I figured it was probably a one time thing. I just went downstairs to check on the tank and I decided to see if he would do it again. I put my hand in and he came right over. Do I have a new best friend or is there some kind of scientic explanation. No, I am not coated in algae.

JesseJ · Apr 9, 2004

Cute but weird. Every pleco I've owned/seen always runs and hides when a person goes near their tank.

Hound · Apr 10, 2004

Maybe you just smell like algae to him.

pinballqueen · Apr 10, 2004

Many species of pleco are omnivores, and a few are carnivorous when they get up a bit older.... perhaps it is after the dead skin cells on your hands? A little less glamorous than it just liking you, but probably a viable explanation

Talk about exfoliation, yeesh

Hound · Apr 10, 2004

That might be a good guess. Good thing its a suckermouth type fish and not something with a real bite.

JesseJ · Apr 10, 2004

blegh.....

I liked thinking it was cute more then I like thinking that he's eating your skin.

That would have been a good monster for a 50's horror movie though.

LGooley · Apr 10, 2004

You are probably right Pinballqueen. I just gave them the next antibiotic treatment, no dead fish for 24 hours!!. He came right over again. Unfortunately I am allergic to antibiotics so I couldn't stick my hand in the tank this time. I think he likes me. I will say it is a weird feeling. My plecos are both still really small. They are only about 2 inches long.

pinballqueen · Apr 10, 2004

Originally posted by Hound
That might be a good guess. Good thing its a suckermouth type fish and not something with a real bite.

Have you ever seen the inside of that suckermouth?

They have rows of plate-type teeth... if a big one latches on it hurts.

LGooley · Apr 10, 2004

good grief. If this becomes a habit and he gets to big I could lose a finger. Ok. Maybe I won't be sticking my hand in the fish tank anymore. I don't want to become one of those 6:00 news stories. You know the ones that start "Hey, now this lady is really stupid...."

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