it was not neglected I changed the water every week cleaned the filters and it still went black/green after only a few days and it was under a lean too with shade filtered by two fluval internal filters in venturi mode for aeration was fitted with a large black metal hood and cover trays to stop things getting in and the fish out of the outside tankpanaque wrote:- You cannot compare a foul neglected 4ft fish tank with a huge and very deep low productivity lake.
- So now you're saying that this thing can survive on the bread that people feed the ducks? I'd say you are clutching at straws.
- No two species combined to create a plec. That is not how evolution works. They are definitely not reptiles. Their morphology (internal and external structures) and their DNA tell us that they are a family (Loricariidae) of catfishes (Siluriformes) which are an order of ray-finned fishes. Wikipedia is a good place to start further background research: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catfish
Anyway, it seems your mind is closed to the possibility of your theory being incorrect, so I will say no more on the subject.
wikipedia really I got my info from PFK a lot more trustworthy then wikipedia will ever be also i'm open to that it is another kind of omnivores species but we don't have many reptilian looking fish species in the freshwater habbitat and according to what we know of what species that could fit that description they are all too small
Bullhead (Cottus gobio) grows to 15cm feeds on invertebrates, such as mayfly and caddisfly larvae, and the eggs of other fish.
Burbot (Lota lota) grows to 50cm
Sturgeon (Acipenser sturio) grows 3-5m long
Wels catfish but no one has said the monster is a slimy looking thing with whiskers
those are the species that are the most reptilian looking except the wels catfish
