Damn, I'm ****ed

Just got home from work and of course checked out my tanks. I took a double
take when looking at my 29g, it looked a tad cloudy, not the norm. So I did
some looking around the rocks and found my Bristle Nose Pleco dead. Not just
dead, but his guts apparently eaten out. He's lived in this tank for over a
year with a Black Ghost and a "Snowflake" Eel, they have never seemed to
have any problems at all. It's like a kick in the head, I'm not happy.
Damn!!

So now I'm looking at one of my Frontys swim to the top of his tank and
"gulp" air and swim to the bottom and "burb", all good fun for him, but I
was under the impression this wasn't good for them. What the hell is going
on??????

OHH GREAT!!!, now my Oscar just jumped out of his tank!!!!! No, not
really, but that's how I feel.

On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 01:55:44 GMT, "Rick"
wrote:

Just got home from work and of course checked out my tanks. I took a double
take when looking at my 29g, it looked a tad cloudy, not the norm. So I did
some looking around the rocks and found my Bristle Nose Pleco dead. Not just
dead, but his guts apparently eaten out. He's lived in this tank for over a
year with a Black Ghost and a "Snowflake" Eel, they have never seemed to
have any problems at all. It's like a kick in the head, I'm not happy.
Damn!!

OK. I think I have made a discovery after a good deal of
consideration, I am getting a strong suspicion about why our pl*cos
have been dying. When I first logged in to rafm, and read the FAQ, a
couple of decades ago, I learned that the common name for a certain
group of suckermouth catfishes should never be spelled with the letter
"e" in the middle. The "e" was always to be replaced with a "*", an
asterisk. Since I have returned, I've noticed that nearly all posters
here are ignoring that important factor in writing about their pl*cos.
I've lost two ancistrus, both with a round, red dot on their backs,
and I'm learning that this red dot is appearing on many ancistrus in
many fish stores and home aquariums across the continent, and I
haven't found anyone with a good explanation. Well, I retrieved the
corpse of my most recent dead ancistrus, and looked very closely at
the red dot, and you know what, it wasn't a dot, it was a red
asterisk. I think that our straying from posting convention has
finally caught up with us, or at least caught up with our pl*cos. It's
the only explanation that makes sense.

-- Mister Gardener

"Mr. Gardener" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 01:55:44 GMT, "Rick"
wrote:

Just got home from work and of course checked out my tanks. I took a
double
take when looking at my 29g, it looked a tad cloudy, not the norm. So I
did
some looking around the rocks and found my Bristle Nose Pleco dead. Not
just
dead, but his guts apparently eaten out. He's lived in this tank for over
a
year with a Black Ghost and a "Snowflake" Eel, they have never seemed to
have any problems at all. It's like a kick in the head, I'm not happy.
Damn!!

OK. I think I have made a discovery after a good deal of
consideration, I am getting a strong suspicion about why our pl*cos
have been dying. When I first logged in to rafm, and read the FAQ, a
couple of decades ago, I learned that the common name for a certain
group of suckermouth catfishes should never be spelled with the letter
"e" in the middle. The "e" was always to be replaced with a "*", an
asterisk. Since I have returned, I've noticed that nearly all posters
here are ignoring that important factor in writing about their pl*cos.
I've lost two ancistrus, both with a round, red dot on their backs,
and I'm learning that this red dot is appearing on many ancistrus in
many fish stores and home aquariums across the continent, and I
haven't found anyone with a good explanation. Well, I retrieved the
corpse of my most recent dead ancistrus, and looked very closely at
the red dot, and you know what, it wasn't a dot, it was a red
asterisk. I think that our straying from posting convention has
finally caught up with us, or at least caught up with our pl*cos. It's
the only explanation that makes sense.

-- Mister Gardener

......Sherlock Holmes...is it? Nice work lol
any how, how about sucker fish (type)
Nikki

Mr. Gardener wrote:
On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 01:55:44 GMT, "Rick"
wrote:

Just got home from work and of course checked out my tanks. I took a double
take when looking at my 29g, it looked a tad cloudy, not the norm. So I did
some looking around the rocks and found my Bristle Nose Pleco dead. Not just
dead, but his guts apparently eaten out. He's lived in this tank for over a
year with a Black Ghost and a "Snowflake" Eel, they have never seemed to
have any problems at all. It's like a kick in the head, I'm not happy.
Damn!!

OK. I think I have made a discovery after a good deal of
consideration, I am getting a strong suspicion about why our pl*cos
have been dying. When I first logged in to rafm, and read the FAQ, a
couple of decades ago, I learned that the common name for a certain
group of suckermouth catfishes should never be spelled with the letter
"e" in the middle. The "e" was always to be replaced with a "*", an
asterisk. Since I have returned, I've noticed that nearly all posters
here are ignoring that important factor in writing about their pl*cos.
I've lost two ancistrus, both with a round, red dot on their backs,
and I'm learning that this red dot is appearing on many ancistrus in
many fish stores and home aquariums across the continent, and I
haven't found anyone with a good explanation. Well, I retrieved the
corpse of my most recent dead ancistrus, and looked very closely at
the red dot, and you know what, it wasn't a dot, it was a red
asterisk. I think that our straying from posting convention has
finally caught up with us, or at least caught up with our pl*cos. It's
the only explanation that makes sense.

Ah, you have discovered the ancient Usenet pl*co curse. I can type
pleco with impunity as I don't have any. :-p

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On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 20:15:54 GMT, Altum
wrote:

Ah, you have discovered the ancient Usenet pl*co curse. I can type
pleco with impunity as I don't have any. :-p

Well, I know that I have never typed anything but pl*co, and two of my
fish died with the asterisk on their backs, so the curse must
certainly be gaining strength, building immunity and growing
increasingly contagious thanks to all those non-believers who insist
on striking the e key instead of reaching up to the shift-8. Please,
rafm community, for the sake of the future health, perhaps the very
existence of pl*cos everywhere, make the extra effort to type
carefully. I was delighted when the Boston Red Sox were able to
Reverse The Curse, but I fear the pl*co curse may prove a bigger
challenge.

-- Mister Gardener

Mr. Gardener wrote in
:

Well, I know that I have never typed anything but pl*co, and two of my
fish died with the asterisk on their backs, so the curse must
certainly be gaining strength, building immunity and growing

I keep dozens of different plecos, and I've only ever lost one (a real
beauty though) when a CO2 injector overloaded and poisoned half the tank.

pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco
pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco
pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco
pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco
pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco
pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco
pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco

These fish are very hardy. They only need available food and lots of O2.

"dc" wrote in message
...
Mr. Gardener wrote in
:

Well, I know that I have never typed anything but pl*co, and two of my
fish died with the asterisk on their backs, so the curse must
certainly be gaining strength, building immunity and growing

I keep dozens of different plecos, and I've only ever lost one (a real
beauty though) when a CO2 injector overloaded and poisoned half the tank.

pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco
pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco
pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco
pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco
pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco
pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco
pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco pleco

These fish are very hardy. They only need available food and lots of O2.

LOL, you beat me to it!
pleco pleco pleco....ect ect ect

Well, I know that I have never typed anything but pl*co, and two of my
fish died with the asterisk on their backs, so the curse must
certainly be gaining strength, building immunity and growing
increasingly contagious thanks to all those non-believers who insist
on striking the e key instead of reaching up to the shift-8. Please,
rafm community, for the sake of the future health, perhaps the very
existence of pl*cos everywhere, make the extra effort to type
carefully. I was delighted when the Boston Red Sox were able to
Reverse The Curse, but I fear the pl*co curse may prove a bigger
challenge.

-- Mister Gardener

My bristlenose pl*co disappeared for the last month in the
heavily-planted tank. Just today he's re-appeared; perhaps the curse is
waning?

On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 20:50:04 -0500, netDenizen wrote:
My bristlenose pl*co disappeared for the last month in the
heavily-planted tank. Just today he's re-appeared; perhaps the curse is
waning?

My really old ancistrus disappears for months sometimes. I'm sure I
would see him if I snuck up with a flashlight in the middle of the
night. The veggie discs I leave for him at lights out each evening is
always gone in the morning. Red dot or red asterisk, curse waning or
waxing, I really want to find a good female to keep my young male
company. He's been hanging out around the mouth of his cave waiting
for a pretty young thing to pass his way. My lfs told me he will stop
ordering ancistrus for a few months, while working with his supplier
to find out just how widespread the problem is. I might try a
different dealer, after checking out who is using which suppliers.

-- Mister Gardener

OK. I think I have made a discovery after a good deal of
consideration, I am getting a strong suspicion about why our pl*cos
have been dying. When I first logged in to rafm, and read the FAQ, a
couple of decades ago, I learned that the common name for a certain
group of suckermouth catfishes should never be spelled with the letter
"e" in the middle. The "e" was always to be replaced with a "*", an
asterisk. Since I have returned, I've noticed that nearly all posters
here are ignoring that important factor in writing about their pl*cos.
I've lost two ancistrus, both with a round, red dot on their backs,

That's "anc*strus".

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