#plecostomus

I’ve seen someone’s aquatic from on here doing the same thing so I had to post this. I find it bizarre. If anyone has any insight into the thought process for a fish to do this let me know. I have 2 pregnant guppies. So I have to go in my room once an hour to check if they gave birth cause the moms will eat their babies. I just went in and my sucker fish is sitting on top on the pregnant mesh cage. Which has his body almost all the way out of the water….which will kill him. Haha

Some of the L134 plecos. I was moving around the caves to see if they end up breeding again.

Some more photos of the dead L260s and hillstream fish jars. I really need a shelf space to display these. Probably check on the older jars too, to see if they are okay. I’m still surprised this mixture of water and alcohol lasts this long.

A few of my dead fish collection. I have more jars but these were in the box I was going through.

The first one was a group of L260 I had. The heater overheated the tank while I was not home. Lost $300 of fish that day. The other jar is a mix of hillstream fish. These were the dead when I got columnaris from fish I quarantined four months before putting into the tank. Lost most of my hillstream loaches, gobies, and almost quit. My $100 loach is somewhere in there.

I like collecting the dead. Fish are in a solution of rubbing alcohol and water (mostly alcohol). It’s been almost three years for the L260s and seven for the hillstream. Still keeping their “color” and skin. I’m amazed they lasted this long in the solution. I want to display the jars but I don’t have room for a shelf so the jars are in boxes until I get a bigger room.

Around ten days old, I think. Some started wondering out so I decided to put all in a breeder container until they get a bit larger then they will be moved into a regular grow out tank.

The darker colored one, at the bottom, is the cull which I am not too sure if I should just cull “it” now or wait. The stomach area, did not form correctly and I don’t want it to suffer. Rest look to be good. Started eating the Repashy I fed tonight.

A little stressed out from being removed from the cave. You can also compare how tiny the baby is to him.

Counted 15 fry but one looks a bit off so it will most likely be culled as I don’t want it to suffer growing up. It is shorter and the stomach area does not look fully formed. Fry were going to be put into a small grow tank but I decided I am going to keep them in the container that is in the same tank as their parents until they get a bit older. This will help the fry in finding food and not starving in a larger tank.