HotStuffGal
Fishaholic
Plecos Are'nt for Everyone. They Get Large, People don't realize that.......
My Neighbors learned the hard way. A 10 Gallon tank a baby Pleco, so what seems
to be the problem? Well They had no idea about Plecos, or even tanks for that
matter. This Pleco grew and grew in this tiny tank which was cleaned only a
handfull of times. 8 Years in the filthy moldy rotting tank before I showed up.
Their way of covering it up, and getting rid of the now nuscense, A tag sale. I saw
The tank and the Pleco now 9 inches cramped up in this tank. Mold flowed over
the edges, you were almsot un-able to see in there because of rotting glass, but
through it all lay a large pleco at the bottom. "$3.00 In Change" The man said
sticking the small net in the tank, but had some trouble the water so thick with
rotting material. Putting the Pleco in a bucket of water for me I placed it in the
trunk or my dad's car. "I Don't want the tank sir" I said sliding into the seat. As I
stared into the bucket and upon closer inspection I realized many 'bruises' and
'blemishes' upon the old plecos body. As he frantically splashed and hit the walls of
the bucket I also came to realize his eyes were clouded over with a white
substance, he could not see. Living in a living hell of a tank seemed to only phase
his body, but not his spirit. Into a 125 gallon tank he went swimming and splashing
around like 8 years of his life was not wasted. Blemishes gone, roughed up fins
gone, clouded over eyes gone, a happier life, just beggining. Everyone
should learn from this experiance, Plecos are NOT for everyone, do your research,
learn about the fish and learn how to take care of a tank and learn the
responcibility of am Aquarium. A small tank with an alge problem can be solved
without a pleco. There are Alternatives, chinease alge eaters, otto cats, even other
fish. So PLEASE no Pleco or any fish in this matter should EVER have to go through
what This Pleco did. Next time you enter the fish store and see a nice cheap small
tank and a cute small pleco realize that what your doing by buying it without
any knowledge of what is to come, is wrong. Please Do the Plecos A Favor!!!
~Scarlett
My Neighbors learned the hard way. A 10 Gallon tank a baby Pleco, so what seems
to be the problem? Well They had no idea about Plecos, or even tanks for that
matter. This Pleco grew and grew in this tiny tank which was cleaned only a
handfull of times. 8 Years in the filthy moldy rotting tank before I showed up.
Their way of covering it up, and getting rid of the now nuscense, A tag sale. I saw
The tank and the Pleco now 9 inches cramped up in this tank. Mold flowed over
the edges, you were almsot un-able to see in there because of rotting glass, but
through it all lay a large pleco at the bottom. "$3.00 In Change" The man said
sticking the small net in the tank, but had some trouble the water so thick with
rotting material. Putting the Pleco in a bucket of water for me I placed it in the
trunk or my dad's car. "I Don't want the tank sir" I said sliding into the seat. As I
stared into the bucket and upon closer inspection I realized many 'bruises' and
'blemishes' upon the old plecos body. As he frantically splashed and hit the walls of
the bucket I also came to realize his eyes were clouded over with a white
substance, he could not see. Living in a living hell of a tank seemed to only phase
his body, but not his spirit. Into a 125 gallon tank he went swimming and splashing
around like 8 years of his life was not wasted. Blemishes gone, roughed up fins
gone, clouded over eyes gone, a happier life, just beggining. Everyone
should learn from this experiance, Plecos are NOT for everyone, do your research,
learn about the fish and learn how to take care of a tank and learn the
responcibility of am Aquarium. A small tank with an alge problem can be solved
without a pleco. There are Alternatives, chinease alge eaters, otto cats, even other
fish. So PLEASE no Pleco or any fish in this matter should EVER have to go through
what This Pleco did. Next time you enter the fish store and see a nice cheap small
tank and a cute small pleco realize that what your doing by buying it without
any knowledge of what is to come, is wrong. Please Do the Plecos A Favor!!!
~Scarlett