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 Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. Okay.. I am posting this again because some people don't believe that I have 21" meat eating Plecostomus fish. If you don't know what a Plecostomus is, here is a picture of a small one. You see them everywhere.
 Normal Plecos are Herbavors and live off the algae in the tank. However, through some strange mutation my plecos became enormous, meat eaters. I mean I have Carnivorous, blood thirsty demons from hell in my tank. Look at the maw on these things!!  I have to keep them alone and away from all my other fish. One reason is because they eat the smaller fish and two because they actually slice up the bigger fish. Plecos are extremely hard and boney fish and they have extremely hard spines all over. They rake other fish and blind them or kill them which is what mine did. Talk about something small getting a complex. I actually keep them both in a 72 gallon tank.  I wish I could show you more, but they started to frenzy after I took this last shot. You can't see them in the photo but I have shrimp on the floor in there. Not small shrimp either. I mean good size shrimp that you would boil and eat. I leave it out over night so it gets nice and stinky and then drop it in. They go through about 1 pound of shrimp a week.  These pictures really don't do them justice as they are really scary. I should have placed something next to them so you can jusdge thier size better, but that is a 72gallon tank they are in. The largest I have found on the web is 24" so I have 3" to go before I can say I have the biggest in the world. I believe that they are mutated freaks and are highly inteligent. Sometimes at night.. I think they plot to kill me. This is my favorite  creepy evil eye things!!  Message Edited by sqitso on 06-08-2005 07:46 PM 
No I didn't buy them this size. I ran into some financial problems for a while though. I coudn't clean the tank. Since they lived on Algae I figured they would be okay. The water got so dirty you couldn't even see through the glass. The water really stank and believe it or not I just assumed everything was dead in it. I didn't want to mess with it. So finally one day I decided I would empty this big ass tank and sell it. When something thrashed around in the water like a shark. It scared the hell out of me. So I drained down the water and saw these huge things. They where probably half as big as they are now but you can still imagine the surprise. I guess all that filth was super grow food for these things.
Couple of freak shows.... damn, they are scary. I wouldn't know about "world record" - but they must be up there. Puts my 3 tiny goldfish in a 15 gal tank to shame =P
Now, what if you put smaller fish in that tank, would it become like entertainment to see the 2 big dudes cut'em up? I've seen them in pet stores, they are only like 4-5" long there. They eat 1lb of shrimp a week? Boy, they eat better than me.
Oh, and what are their names sqits? "anal" and "probe" ?
If you want to know a secret.. Plecos are actually cat fish. They are scavangers and the dirtier the environment, the more they can eat. Can fish have some sort of filter in them that alows them to filter bacteria from the water and they can actually survive on that as well. Cori do the same thing. Sure you see people feed thier coris but it is not nessasary. I do have to feed my plecos because there is not enough bacteria in the tank to keep them healthy. You couldn't see the fish at all if I let it get that dirty.
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