Perfect Plecos for Your Aquarium! Plecostomus Are Not Just Suckers.

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These are Perfect Plecos for Your Aquarium! Plecostomus Are Not Just Suckers. Well, They're suckerfish and catfish... and today, we want to share many of the plecos we have in our warehouse.
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[@BirdTalk13]

I miss our beloved Pooty Fish. She was a common pleco, and we bought her when she was an inch long little baby fish. We had her for 20 years and she was 24” long and had a very sweet personality. She loved to watch TV and when we turned it off at night she would spit rocks at the side of her tank to show her displeasure. When we turned the TV back on she would resume watching it. Many family members and friends would laugh when they witnessed her television viewing and spitting rocks. Everyone who met her adored her and still remember her to this day. Pooty Fish was so very gentle that she would let the baby guppies hang out underneath her front fins. She never ate the baby guppy fry while they swam in and out of her mouth. My Kuhli loaches liked to balance on top of her head and on her back. Her best friend was a little grey Corydoras catfish that we brought home from the pet shop at the same time as Pooty Fish. When she became bigger than the catfish, she would hug him by placing her fin around the little catfish and holding him against the side of her body. The catfish passed away 12 years later and Pooty Fish was heartbroken. She refused to eat for almost 4 months and became thin. She slowly started eating again, but her personality/behavior was never again quite the same as before. She missed her little companion. When we moved to a new home she was injured during transport and passed away a few weeks later. We buried her in our front garden and planted some rose bushes on top and around her grave. This was 23 years ago and Pooty Fish’s Rose Garden blooms beautifully year round. ❤ 🌹

[@tiffanyclark-grove1989]

beautiful story💖

[@jasonwolfe9892]

I worked at a large fish store called The Fish Place in North Tonawanda NY years ago. They had zebra plecos for around 60 dollars as I remember. I kept around 6 of them for awhile. I heard a story about someone had some and the heater went bad and the temp spiked very warm well into the 90s and that induced them to breed. Plecos are very cool especially the rarer types.

[@pauladonis3445]

Love this channel, just discovered it and instantly subscribed, your way of talking and putting the information out for the public is spot on, also not many people know about the little stories regarding the Indonesian so called breeders and I appreciate that this was mentioned 😁

[@thefishfiles]

Thanks, Paul. We appreciate you giving us a chance. 🫡

[@DL_Kwekerij]

Great video 😁 , this week i go buy a breeding pair L600

[@codeNSB]

Great video! Lots of cool and important information! Please make another video but with the large Pleco species like Scarlett, Sunshine etc

[@randyhegstad5754]

Shoot those are sooo expensive, but size is not a problem it's easier to import them large.

[@joshuahawkins2743]

Plecos are cool love the bristle knose and royal plecos super cool

[@TheAverageSome1]

Got my first royal, I'm excited.

[@Tiffanyinwilderness]

Wow those are beautiful

[@thefishfiles]

They really are!

[@user-rt5yh4wy5b]

That watermelon is is in top condition...

[@markfranklin8831]

Hello new subscriber here. Very cool video. Thanks for sharing.

[@thefishfiles]

We appreciate the view, Thanks for watching :) let us know what kinds of fish you’re interested in.

[@jeroenverzijl8596]

i have a royal red eye pleco, i have it small and it does not grow really fast, i bought it for under 30 euro, it is a good qualety and i ssay the same innother stores for minimum 60euro's

[@jeroenverzijl8596]

Petstores with return polecie are very rare, only the top stores do that, but that is 2 or 3 out off a 100

[@MandyJane123700]

I have a 4yr old common pleco, I don't know which type she is (or if she's a she lol). I moved her out of a 75 gallon aquarium and into a 300 gallon stock tank. I always wonder if I am feeding her the right food, or enough food. I think she was pretty hungry all the time when she was in the aquarium. I've been trying Repashy, but she doesn't seem to care for Soilant Green, so I got a small jar of bottom scratcher to try. The only thing I know she loves is freeze dried tubifex worms.

[@randyhegstad5754]

I don't want to bash around Repashy, but gelatin foods (like Repashy) have been around for decades and there is no reason why they would be better for fish than flake or pellet, or we humans, zoos, National Aquariums would be doing the same gelatin preparation. We don't and so no big deal if your pleco doesn't take to that food either. If your pleco is eating a treat food like freeze dried worms then she is healthy and probably doing most of her scavenging at night, but all plecos do need some natural wood and a good idea to drop just a couple algae wafers in a couple times a week in case she is not getting enough of the regular left overs.

[@MandyJane123700]

@@randyhegstad5754 Well that's good to know. Repashy is expensive, but I thought it would be worth it if it keeps her healthy. I also drop a few Fluval pleco sticks, and sometimes Sera catfish chips in the tank at night. The only competition she has for food now are some snails and rosy minnows. I do have a small piece of driftwood in there, but she would probably appreciate a bigger one.

[@randyhegstad5754]

It's good you have those rosy minnows. If you are feeding them flake food plecos love the stuff they don't get to.

[@MandyJane123700]

@@randyhegstad5754 When she was in the 75 gallon she would kind of swim on her back and siphon the flakes off the surface. I do give the minnows flakes, so hopefully Bertha is getting plenty of food. I just never had a fish this big, so it is hard to know just how much to feed. I have lots of small fish, and I know they don't need a lot of food. I guess that since she is still growing, and is looking fat and healthy I should not worry so much!

[@BirdTalk13]

Hikari Algae Wafers, zucchini, potato and an occasional bloodworm cube.

[@CarlosRamos-xr9rj]

I had an L-239 for 3 months… idk what happened but he died. God he was a gorgeous dark blue and unique. Now I have a clown pleco that I never see… plan to take away some of the hiding spots.

[@thefishfiles]

Sad to hear! I hope your clown pleco comes out to say hi more often

[@randyhegstad5754]

Also (producer wrote the last response) those blue plecos - and gold nuggets and several others - are notorious for dying in a few short months. Everyone loves those gold nuggets but not many can get them to grow more than four inches before they die. L139 blue plecos are the same. These are both wild and often do not handle changes regarding pH, ammonia, oxygen, or anything else and often you wont know as they slowly weaken until one morning they are just sitting there on their side. Only sure way is to keep pH on low side - 7 or below, lots and lots of oxygen, and clean no ammonia water. Not easy. Randy

[@thefishfiles]

@@randyhegstad5754 Randy knows best 🫡

[@aquabizinc]

What’s that big one called I bought from y’all?

[@randyhegstad5754]

Hello AquaBiz - you just got a pretty looking Trinidad.

[@brianlofland8478]

What is the best fish place to buy fish online thanks

[@thefishfiles]

You can try our website 😊 www.aquariumfishsale.com/

[@ThomasKushner-hx9rf]

Aquarialive open in spring

[@aslan-leemckee695]

There are no blue eyed albinos.... they are called blue eyed lemon and are a leucistic line of bristlenose plecos. Similar but not the same as an albino. Breeding a blue eyed lemon and albino will give you a common looking fish that carries both genetics.

[@nunya___]

6:50 music is too loud.

[@thefishfiles]

Thank you for mentioning, we will make sure it’s not too loud on the next one. We hope youstill enjoy the video.

[@nunya___]

@@thefishfiles Ya I did. I liked and I've subscribed recently. Great channel.

[@timhorvat7432]

Why didn’t you credit Jason’s pleco cichlids for the video of the l330 you used. It’s not your fish you’re selling, it’s his. Give him credit if you’re going to use his videos to gain popularity and sales

[@timhorvat7432]

Same with the BEC video

[@thefishfiles]

Please comment his channel! Would love to give jason credit on that video.

[@timhorvat7432]

@@thefishfiles you found his videos twice, you can find them again. Like I said his business is Jason’s plecos and cichlids. If you look that up you will find his website that you can credit for taking his clips. It is your responsibility as a content creator to credit sources you use especially when you own a business of your own. If someone watches this video and falls in love with an l330 watermelon pleco and they want one that’s healthy and beautiful like they saw in your video, then they should know where the one in your video came from.

[@timhorvat7432]

So if stores and customers are always bringing back the common plecos because they get too big for most fish keepers to responsibly house, why buy them???? It seems like you understand how big they get and how much waste they create, you’re obviously not making very much money off of them if you sell them $1 per inch. So why keep buying them???? You know they’re invasive all across the world partially due to people releasing them because they grow too big. So why keep buying them?

[@coledaugherty553]

These plecos are from a different part of the world an not as hardy as the common plecos and need different water parameters to survive an thrive

[@timhorvat7432]

@@coledaugherty553 the species that are often sold as common plecos are from the pterygoplichthys genus which all grow to a similar large size and are similarly hardy. They all come from South America. You can call them whatever common name you’d like, Trinidad, sailfin, common pleco, but they’re all names used to describe species of the pterygoplichthys genus which grows to be larger than most aquarists can responsibly house.