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

--
Put the word aquaria in the subject to reply.
Did you read the FAQ? http://faq.thekrib.com

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.

"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

I feel sooo much better now.

"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

On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 23:14:08 GMT, "Rick"
wrote:


"dc" wrote in message
1...
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

Sigh. Your day will come.

-- Mister Gardener

"Rick" wrote in message
...
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!!

hmm, wood fibre, algae tabs, zuchinni, various algaes and wood fungus (as
Richard says) and they should stay fine. I don't put much credence in
this pl*co business, but my plec can't read cause he only comes out at
night, so I should be fine ;~). Being emptied out is typical, but
doesn't mean your carnivores did it. If a carnivore can flip a plec over
and keep em still, then it can be meal time (hard to do though).

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??????

LOL, Fronts will do that. The problem is when they swallow the air, not
when they mouth and release it.

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

Wait till you get home to the sound of water trickling down the stairs.
When my 120g let go of the top of the front glass, it dumped about 60g
before the glass got pulled back in. That much water will soak a Gerber,
so then it just follows a path gravity makes for it. Poor fish were in
water 12" deep (left in the tank) with the most bewildered expressions
;~).

2nd prize was when my daughter insisted that I could not take a Rainbow
shark to the pet shop just because it didn't fit with my plans, and that
I should set up a completely new aquarium for the shark, which apparently
had become her favourite fish. So I set up a 20g in her room, put the
fish in and the next morning, I find it dried up on the floor (they are
good jumpers and it had found a hole). Before my daughter could notice,
I'm going from pet shop to pet shop looking to buy a Rainbow shark -
when the original plan was to get rid of the one I had *grrrr*.
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