Don't forget to feed your Pleco, or else!

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Don't forget to feed your Pleco, or else!

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I have a beautiful Sail-fin pleco.
(I am not sure exactly which kind, but she is a Pterygoplicthys for sure. (She has grown from 2 inches to 7 inches in 4 months and she must have at least 14 rays in her beautiful dorsal fin.)

So anyway, I didn't give her a wafer before bedtime one night. (She had been eating very well all day!)
I'm almost asleep, and I hear a loud CRACK!

Fortunately, the tank was fine; however she did snap the temperature adjustment knob off the top of her heater! ~X(
I'm glad she likes 80 degrees F. She also loves those Hikari wafers!

So take warning my friends, and don't forget to feed your Pleco! =))
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WOW! My rhino pleco better not become pugnacious like that. LOL.
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chuck norris pelco (-|
Do not mess with Chuck [-X
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DKcincy wrote:WOW! My rhino pleco better not become pugnacious like that. LOL.
ceh wrote:chuck norris pelco (-|
Do not mess with Chuck [-X
She's only 7 inches long now, but I think she may get to be 19 to 24 inches. :-SS Yikes, that is scary! X_X
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TRY feeding with organic cucumber /courgette .or source from local market.been feeding my bristle noses and common plecs like this for years. BRISTLE noses breading on "batch 3" seem happy enough.
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