| No. | All keepers listed by when they started keeping this species. The longest an individual has been kept is 8 years, 1 months. |
| 1 | pureplecs since 2006-04-28 to 2010-06-24, that's 4 years, 1 months |
| 2 | Borbi since 2007-03-02 to 2009-04-18, that's 2 years, 1 months |
| 3 | lordotterby since 2007-03-12 to 2009-03-12, that's 2 years, 0 months |
| 4 | CatBrat since 2007-03-31 to 2009-03-31, that's 2 years, 0 months |
| 5 | phaedraeos since 2007-05-12 to 2009-05-12, that's 2 years, 0 months |
| 6 | Jools (k: 3) since 2007-06-24 to 2015-08-02, that's 8 years, 1 months |
| 7 | emma since 2007-07-04 to 2009-07-04, that's 2 years, 0 months |
| 8 | Blue (k: 19) since 2007-08-03 to 2009-09-08, that's 2 years, 1 months; who writes, "Free swimming fru Aug 1st 2007 Feeding of pleco chips and decap bbs shows good growth of F1 with normal deaths as expected. Tank shift lost half the batch leaving me with 15 as of Sept 9th 2007" |
| 9 | NHL since 2008-04-07 to 2010-08-26, that's 2 years, 4 months |
| 10 | cichlidman16yearsold (k: 6) since 2008-12-23 to 2012-06-20, that's 3 years, 5 months; who writes, "my first group " |
| 11 | AleGer (k: 2) since 2009-06-08 to 2011-05-05, that's 1 years, 10 months |
| 12 | Chris5787 since 2009-06-09 to 2015-04-07, that's 5 years, 9 months |
| 13 | andi since 2009-12-01 to 2014-01-04, that's 4 years, 1 months |
| 14 | 2wheelsx2 (p: 3, k: 9) since 2009-12-18 to 2012-09-01, that's 2 years, 8 months; who writes, "April 13, 1 died of mysterious ailment. No apparent injury, no loss of slime coat, no ich, no visible marks and stomach was normal sized full.", "Added 5 more to my group. Lost one to bloat. Dec. 27, 2010", "Added 4 new adults to replace some losses. Lost 2 after a bought of ich. May have been QuickCure. Stomachs were bloated." |
| 15 | dpk2313 since 2010-02-21 to 2012-02-21, that's 2 years, 0 months |
| 16 | Nat since 2010-06-24 to 2012-06-24, that's 2 years, 0 months |
| 17 | plecomanpat (p: 2, k: 2) since 2011-02-27 to 2013-02-27, that's 2 years, 0 months |
| 18 | Yakov_krepak (p: 2) since 2011-05-31 to 2012-04-10, that's 0 years, 10 months |
| 19 | ChanggyChinggy since 2011-08-14 to 2013-08-20, that's 2 years, 0 months |
| 20 | flatfish since 2012-03-14 to 2017-07-16, that's 5 years, 4 months |
| 21 | Dragonrat since 2012-10-14 to 2018-02-24, that's 5 years, 4 months; who writes, "Bought as Peckoltia Vittata" |
| 22 | ScottishFish since 2013-01-25 to 2015-01-25, that's 2 years, 0 months |
| 23 | Narwhal72 since 2013-04-16 to 2016-11-15, that's 3 years, 6 months |
| 24 | gem400 since 2013-12-10 to 2014-06-24, that's 0 years, 6 months |
| 25 | jvision since 2014-04-13 to 2014-08-17, that's 0 years, 4 months |
| 26 | Asset since 2014-06-10 to 2016-06-10, that's 2 years, 0 months |
| 27 | camtang since 2014-09-18 to 2016-09-18, that's 2 years, 0 months |
| 28 | LostYeti (k: 5) since 2014-11-21 to 2017-02-26, that's 2 years, 3 months |
| 29 | Coldhands (p: 2, k: 2) since 2015-04-13 to 2016-01-20, that's 0 years, 9 months |
| 30 | GHCHPlecos since 2015-08-26 to 2017-08-26, that's 2 years, 0 months |
| 31 | nullepigen since 2015-11-09 to 2017-11-09, that's 2 years, 0 months |
| 32 | catquariauk since 2016-10-28 to 2018-10-28, that's 2 years, 0 months |
| 33 | DHarris since 2016-12-03 to 2018-12-03, that's 2 years, 0 months |
| 34 | Redrain (k: 2) since 2017-01-01 to 2023-11-02, that's 6 years, 10 months |
| 35 | ElTofi (k: 2) since 2017-01-05 to 2022-07-10, that's 5 years, 6 months; who writes, "Had bought a 4 fish group in 2011. Gave them away. They were given away further. And I got back 2 of them this week." |
| 36 | caithless (k: 2) since 2017-02-02 to 2021-02-02, that's 4 years, 0 months |
| 37 | Rogier (k: 3) since 2017-04-20 to 2019-04-20, that's 2 years, 0 months |
| 38 | JDenman (k: 4) since 2017-12-19 to 2018-10-18, that's 0 years, 9 months |
| 39 | Loc since 2018-03-08 to 2020-03-08, that's 2 years, 0 months |
| 40 | richsfishes (k: 7) since 2018-09-20 to 2020-09-20, that's 2 years, 0 months |
| 41 | ChristianKline-CAK since 2018-10-19 to 2020-10-19, that's 2 years, 0 months |
| 42 | kaitlin.dozier (k: 6) since 2019-03-02 to 2021-03-18, that's 2 years, 0 months |
| 43 | celtic11 since 2019-03-09 to 2021-03-09, that's 2 years, 0 months |
| 44 | DrFish since 2020-02-10 to 2023-04-15, that's 3 years, 2 months |
| 45 | Catfish417 since 2020-05-22 to 2022-05-22, that's 2 years, 0 months |
| 46 | tspaceace68 since 2021-05-11 to 2023-05-11, that's 2 years, 0 months |
| 47 | pointpleco (k: 2) since 2022-02-26 to 2025-03-13, that's 3 years, 0 months; who writes, "Amazing markings on these guys. Lucky to find and get in quick to buy these. Very very rare in Australia. Have bred before for the previous breeder. Hope i can get them to breed again." |
