a fish of Captain's nightmares... don't look girl...

looks innocent enough in the sellers picture...



yes, they are for sale... cool spotted pattern, when juvenal... but don't miss in the description they grow to over 1 meter long... why an aquarium fish dealer sells them should be questioned... & no, I didn't find them at Predatory Fins ( a known monster fish seller )... I found them for sale at a discus specialty dealer...

"The Adonis pleco is a beautiful addition to an aquarium. The Adonis pleco can reach sizes of up to 39.5 inches"

maybe more like your swimming pool, but probably not most aquariums

& saw a picture of a small one, in with cory catfish... when at full grown, a 100 cory's would fit in it's mouth...

wonder if the fish ate off the glove fingers on his left hand???

The only way that picture could be better is if the fish was latched onto the guy's face, or bursting out of his chest (think Alien).

That picture reminds of that cooking show, Iron Chef where the challengers pick a chef to compete against in "kitchen Stadium"

... & todays secret ingredient is "big ugly Plecostomus"

Iron Chef
@CaptainBarnicles, this is your fish. What will you be preparing for us tonight?

Colin_T said:

Iron Chef
@CaptainBarnicles, this is your fish. What will you be preparing for us tonight?

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She’ll hammer that thing to the outhouse wall for a decoration and fix you a nice steak .

Sure I’ve seen a place selling Adonis plecs over here in the U.K. although they were one of the bigger species don’t remember them being advertised as growing up to a metre long though..

Think you’d need an aquarium the size of my house to home that beast

Just. Wow. I thought the ones the length of my forearm were big!!