[Pics] Ever see a Pleco with fins like this

I've had my current Pleco for about a month and I just started to notice
that both front fins on my Pleco have started to form some soft of
"bubbles" at the front. Both front fins look the same and the fish
seems fine otherwise.

Here are some pictures with red arrows pointing to the "bubbles".

http://www.rbartick.com/cf/pleco_1.jpg
http://www.rbartick.com/cf/pleco_2.jpg
http://www.rbartick.com/cf/pleco_3.jpg
http://www.rbartick.com/cf/pleco_4.jpg

Has anyone seen anything like this before?

Ive only seen it on 1 of my own but dont know for a fact what it is but I was
told that male pleco's grow these while they'er in breeding mode.. Has any
one else heard this?? Hope this helps

Looks like eggs to me.


On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 03:04:58 GMT, Computer Prog
wrote:

I've had my current Pleco for about a month and I just started to notice
that both front fins on my Pleco have started to form some soft of
"bubbles" at the front. Both front fins look the same and the fish
seems fine otherwise.

Here are some pictures with red arrows pointing to the "bubbles".

http://www.rbartick.com/cf/pleco_1.jpg
http://www.rbartick.com/cf/pleco_2.jpg
http://www.rbartick.com/cf/pleco_3.jpg
http://www.rbartick.com/cf/pleco_4.jpg

Has anyone seen anything like this before?

Here are two more pictures:

http://www.rbartick.com/cf/pleco_5.jpg

http://www.rbartick.com/cf/pleco_6.jpg

I had a 2 1/2 Pleco that developed those spots over a period of a month or
two. The actually began to look like hard calcifications after some time.
Anyway, yesterday I noticed that they were mostly gone and today he was
dead. The tank has a UV unit on it and all the other inmates are healthy as
can be. I still have no idea what it was, but my lfs said he's heard a
number of customers talking about it and he'd never seen it before in 35
years.

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Here are two more pictures:

http://www.rbartick.com/cf/pleco_5.jpg

http://www.rbartick.com/cf/pleco_6.jpg