R.I.P. Tom

Leigh · Postby **Leigh** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 3:00 am

How gutted was I when I woke up Sunday morning?I went to feed the fish and saw one of my monster Plec's flippin out for an unknown reason, 10 mins later it pelted round went belly up and DIED :cry2:

.I'd had him for over nine years from a little two inch nipper, he topped out at over a foot.

R.I.P. Tom, my largest fish.

Naequa · Postby **Naequa** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 3:10 am

Im so sorry for your loss.
I don't mean to sound ignorant but what is the life expectancy for this type of fish?
Naomi.

Funda · Postby **Funda** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 3:12 am

Omg! what a beautiful fish he was too!
Cant believe you had him for nine years,
he grew quiet big actually.
Im sorry to hear about your loss :cry:

][ R.I.P TOM ][

:blueyprint:

f.C

kris21 · Postby **kris21** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 3:23 am

Aww poor TOM, RIP buddy.
He looks like a flathead, never heard of his kind before though.

Kris

Dex · Postby **Dex** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 4:58 am

Sorry to hear about Tom, he looked a lovely fish, R.I.P Tom

Jenn · Postby **Jenn** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 5:18 am

Poor litle (well not so little!) fishy! :hug:

mom22wins · Postby **mom22wins** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 6:55 am

Leigh,

I have a pleco named Plec that looks just like Tom! He is approx. 3 years old and is so hardy! We lost power due to a hurricane a few years back and had to stay with my monster-in-law until the power came back on here. When we returned, all my fish had died except him! I was so happy to see that he was okay.

He has a ways to go before he's as big as your Tom, though. I think they are beautiful little animals... So sorry Tom had to go. :cry:

But he did stick around for a long time, didn't he?

He must've been a happy camper. :wink:

Dragontears · Postby **Dragontears** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 7:14 am

Lucifer_Spades · Postby **Lucifer_Spades** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 10:13 am

Aww man I'm sorry. I have a 13 inch 7 year old Pleco and I would be very upset if he died.

At least I'm sure he had a good life with you.

For whoever it was that asked the common Pleco (Hypostomas Plecostomus) Doesn't at this time have a known life span though some have been known to live over 30 years.

Fatal_S · Postby **Fatal_S** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 11:09 am

Aww, poor Tom. I too have owned several plecos, and currently have 1 which is 4 inches. My family had one when I was young, named Lips, and he lived for at least 15+ years and grew to a huge size, nearly 2 feet! I was so sad when Lips died, and I'm sorry Tom passed on. Plecos are definately an amazing fish. Also, has anyone else had trouble getting a new pleco home? I've had 2 that popped the water bag they were in -.-'.

Arkangel · Postby **Arkangel** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 1:35 pm

AneesasMuse · Postby **AneesasMuse** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 2:07 pm

I'm very sorry Tom is gone. Some people find it hard to believe that we can get attached to our fish too, but it's so true. :hug:

I have a "Hi-fin" Pleco named Senor Succi.. he's about 6" now.

It's a good idea to have the LFS double bag your Pleco and then place the bagged fish in a bucket for safe transfer. These fish are "armored" and can easily puncture a bag if they stress and begin "flashing".

SailleSkinklover · Postby **SailleSkinklover** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 4:00 pm

Leigh,
sorry for the loss of your Plec. He was a biggun, tho'! And I know you gave him a good life. I don't know much about fish, but I know you can treat them or their water if something goes wrong, so I was wondering, any ideas on what may have happened?

Saille

Lisa · Postby **Lisa** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 4:30 pm

That's no good, Leigh :cry:

He's got the cutest face I've ever seen on a fish. I couldn't have kept him, I'd want to be hugging him all the time.

aggiegirl · Postby **aggiegirl** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 4:49 pm

Sorry about your fishy. I bought my kids fish and I never knew how attached I would become. I don't have any beauties like Tom but I understand the attachment. So sorry for your loss. kathy

bluecheezytree · Postby **bluecheezytree** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 6:29 pm

im so sorry for your loss, at least you had some good moments with him. and you will always have memories. (this pic is meant to be a scrapbook, again, im sorry for your loss) :nerd:

DeadEye · Postby **DeadEye** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 7:16 pm

Mate thats the sadest ..Iam sincery sorry bout your plec .
Crikey what an old looking fish ..Did he leap outa the tank ?

SORRY Mate http://www.australiazoo.com.au/crikey/videos/

Hope this cheers you up always the good die young :cry:

Lucifer_Spades · Postby **Lucifer_Spades** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 9:38 pm

Fatal_S wrote:Aww, poor Tom. I too have owned several plecos, and currently have 1 which is 4 inches. My family had one when I was young, named Lips, and he lived for at least 15+ years and grew to a huge size, nearly 2 feet! I was so sad when Lips died, and I'm sorry Tom passed on. Plecos are definately an amazing fish. Also, has anyone else had trouble getting a new pleco home? I've had 2 that popped the water bag they were in -.-'.

Whoa! TWO Feet? max size on the biggest species is 18 inches.

Plecos should be double bagged (properly) then wrapped in butcher paper and bagged again, their skin has sharp ridges and feir fins have spines that will tear through otherwise. (Don't try to pick them up bare handed either- :shake:

OUCH!)

You should see some of the different species of pleco's out there, Zebras, Queen Arabesque, Royal, Snowball, man if everyone didn't just see the standard browns more people would have a HUGE interest in Plecs.

(Sorry, Fish keeping is another passion of mine for those who couldn't tell. :oops:

)

Leigh · Postby **Leigh** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 2:19 am

Thanks for all the replies everyone, no idea what went wrong, they cant get out because of the condense tray, the other Plec's fine{he's Jerry} and an inch longer,also an angel fish is in there with nothing wrong so :noknow:

Ianthanks for the link, anything yo do with the Irwins makes my day, I watch him all the time on Discovery, still can't get over the fact that he's gone :godhelp:

cheers to the OT police for the blind eye :thumbs:

KyleWeiss · Postby **KyleWeiss** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 1:01 pm

Plecos dying is strange; I've seen these things live for months in fish tanks that were unplugged and abandoned. They get huge.

KW

R.I.P. Tom

R.I.P. Tom

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