Jumping Plecos

[Easy]

Been reading and hearing frequent accounts of L177s jumping out of the tank...so does this jumping ability apply for all plecos or only a selected few?

Am thinking of putting some plecos in a pond...so I guess I need all the information I could get.

[Barbie]

All plecos have the ability to jump. I've rarely had one hit the floor unless it was in a new tank and wasn't familiar with its surroundings though.

Barbie

[coryfav]

I found my L262 on the floor one morning, recently. It's still breathing but its body was already quite stiff. I put it into the hospital tank but it died that evening.

It's been with me for a few months, so I figured that it probably jumped out while being chased by one of the other plecos...

[S. Allen]

Yes, plecos do seem to have more of a tendency to leave the tank than most other fish. I've lost a regular gold nugget to it, and had a scarlet pleco leave the tank, if she hadn't been a big loud girl she'd have been dead too, but made enough noise I heard it from the other room and returned her to the tank.

[Yann]

Hi!

Well when newly introduce in a tank they do take time to explore the whole house, sometimes they seem to be interested into going out to see what is behind that glass...

I lost a beautiful full grown mature male L260 because of a small openeing in the quarantine tank... since I don't leave my tank open if the water level is really close to the top.

During the summer, when it get really hot and for cooling the tank T° down I open the top, I don't worry much about them jumping since the water level is 15-20 cm lower...

Cheers
Yann

[magnum4]

I very nearly lost a as yet undiscribed species one summer when the covers were off the tank. The plec was not new to the tank and the other fish are not big enough to be a threat but a 8" plec managed at least a 6" leap. That was back when i didn't think plecs could jump.

[Plec0maniac]

I lost an 12inch scarlet bec it jumped out of its tank.. But so far I have never seen a pleco jumped out of a pond..