hevalump Posted March 9, 2004 Report Share Posted March 9, 2004 Hmm, arent plecos suppose to be plant eaters..... im sure my pleco has been eating the blood worms in put in my tank for the eel and other fish..... as soon as the blob of worm sunk to the bottom he got excited and swum fast (the fastest ive ever seen him swim) over and stuck himself onto the spot where they were while franctically sucking away. Also a earth worm escaped from my eels hidey hole and tried to make a get away and my pleco landed on him and when he moved the worm was gone! Is this normal behaviour ? I usually give him a piece of zuchinni every second day or so.... so i would not think he would be starving :-? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kriber Posted March 10, 2004 Report Share Posted March 10, 2004 Normal enough, my pleco (Pterygoplichthys gibbiceps) also eats bloodworms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hevalump Posted March 10, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2004 yeah, i was a little concerned that my pleco shouldnt be eating it. He just acted like a ravenous killing machine and was so hyper.... whatever makes him happy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyman98 Posted March 10, 2004 Report Share Posted March 10, 2004 what type of pleco is he? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hevalump Posted March 10, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2004 being a newbie to tropicals i cant grace you with his latin name..... but have to describe him... hes kinda a browny almost metallicy with lighter gold spots.... is about 7cm from nose to tip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pegasus Posted March 10, 2004 Report Share Posted March 10, 2004 My Pleco's hang upside down under the worm feeders and refuse to let any other dfish near it until they have had their fill.. which is usually when the feeder is empty Buy.. (or make) one of the stick on the glass worm feeders and watch the pleco's go for it... lotsa fun, and even the corys go mad to get the worms in there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish_Tank Posted March 11, 2004 Report Share Posted March 11, 2004 If you didn't pay much for him, i'm guessing you have a colour variaty of the common pl*co. I think the LFS sells it as "gold spot pl*co" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted March 11, 2004 Report Share Posted March 11, 2004 I'd like to get a goldspot pleco. At least the ones I've seen seem to complement redspots. Similar pattern, just reversed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kriber Posted March 11, 2004 Report Share Posted March 11, 2004 Pterygoplichthys gibbiceps a.k.a. Sailfin pleco and red gibbiceps is sold as a goldspot pleco around Chch, and is does look quite similar to the redspot pleco. I don't think its a colour variation of the common pleco though :-? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan_au Posted March 11, 2004 Report Share Posted March 11, 2004 There are two spotted 'Sailfin' plecos that people often confuse..... G. gibbiceps and G. joselimaianus, and neither is related to the common 'pleco'. If one stands back and looks at the two species side by side one is the 'mirror image' or 'negative' of the other. Gibbies have a light body colour or back ground with dark spots, while joselimaianus has a dark back graound or body colour with light "Gold" spots. Easy when you know the diff. but it is amazing the number of people who don't see it., Alan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kriber Posted March 11, 2004 Report Share Posted March 11, 2004 Amazing, I didn't see it. The above mentioned Pterygoplichthys gibbiceps isn't my pleco at all but the 'negative' image of one :oops: First time I saw a pic of the above in my fish book I thought that's the one I've got. Well no, it isn't you idiot! Kindly disregard my previous post! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hevalump Posted March 11, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2004 i think we paid under $20 for him so hed most likely be just a joe average common pleco.... funny think about plecos, sometimes he looks like he is frowning at me. Heh heh heh. Our pleco is having a love affair with our eel, he insists on squeezing into the half of the sunken ship eddie is in when the other half is empty!! The eel doesnt mind, i think the pleco is a bit of a bully however as he follows the eel closely then whooshes past and whacks the eel in the head. Hmmm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kriber Posted March 12, 2004 Report Share Posted March 12, 2004 My 'goldspot' pleco was $12, seen them at $20 though. Talk about love affairs with eels, my pleco likes to orally clean the eel of any algae attached to it Or I'm sure that's what he tells the eel! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hevalump Posted March 12, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2004 ahhh of course, eels are nice and slimey are proberly "meals on wheels" in the eyes of a pleco (or shoudl i say meals on fins)....... good thing eels and pleco cant reproduce together or it would be a rather odd looking concoction Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goldie Posted March 12, 2004 Report Share Posted March 12, 2004 it would indeed and there would be of course a competition to name this 'new' fish LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted March 12, 2004 Report Share Posted March 12, 2004 a plecostomeel :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Posted March 12, 2004 Report Share Posted March 12, 2004 The goldspot plecos that I've seen for sale in the $10-20 range have been Glyptoperichthys joselimaianus (L001). I personally think goldspot is a misnomer - copper spot would be more accurate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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