[AquaticLife] pleco’s

December 22, 2008 @ 9:15 pm · Filed under Philippines Internet Koi Society

Lenny, I’m afraid to ship my plecos. Thats why I haven’t started selling them yet. I know everyone that ships has to start somewhere and I have shipped my snails and cherry shrimp, but PLECOS??? All of my animals are my babies and since they where born here, they are so even more. They are my first plecos to breed. Right now I have 4 batches growing up and a male sitting on eggs. Most are browns, but I do have some albinos too and some are mixed parents. Sure I can post my aquabid name (ucdxmisty), but there are many people on aquabid that have much more experience shipping fish and maybe she doesn’t want BN’s. I just hate seeing people stuck with something they really don’t want. Pam PS I don’t have any breather bags and have been told to watch them with plecos. I also have other fish to sell too. lol

To: AquaticLife@yahoogroups.comFrom: GoldLenny@gmail.comDate: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:11:49 -0600Subject: RE: [AquaticLife] pleco’s

Pam,You should plug your Aquabid nickname while you’re posting about it. There’s over 2,000 members in this group. Amber’s issue is that she lives on Gilligan’s Island (lol) somewhere inAlaska and the overnight companies don’t pay attention to that wholeovernight rule in her neck of the woods. If you are going to ship to her,make sure you pack the fish with enough heat packs and get the breathablebags and use Prime or some other ammonia detoxifier for water treatment justin case the overnight trip turns into a multi-day trip.Lenny Vasbinder Fish Blog - http://GoldLenny.blogspot.com(Links to any articles referenced in above reply are listed on the rightside, alphabetically under Labels and also under Archives by Year, Month)—–Original Message—–From: AquaticLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:AquaticLife@yahoogroups.com] OnBehalf Of pam andressSent: Monday, December 22, 2008 3:54 PMTo: aquaticlife@yahoogroups.comSubject: RE: [AquaticLife] pleco’sAmber don’t get that pleco. If you want smaller plecos, then look onaquabid.com. I even have some I’m going to start selling after the holidays.I have baby bristle nose albino and browns. I have not shipped fish yet, soI’m a little scared. I have shipped snails and cherry shrimp though, so I dohave some knowledge of shipping. There are many types of smaller plecos. Youdon’t have to be stuck with something you really don’t want.PamTo: AquaticLife@yahoogroups.comFrom : amber@rose-fields.comDate : Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:32:53-0900Subject: [AquaticLife] pleco’sOkay my LFS only buys one kind of pleco, the sailfin (which get’s huge,*sarcastic* yay). So I could probably get 1 for my 125 gallon tank, and hopeit doesn’t get huge and try to eat any of my other fish.. Right now it is mycommunity tank/semi aggressive until I get substrate for my 55 gallon tankand move some fish and filters over there. I also have to wait until my newfilter arrives in the mail, and the parts to the eheim arrive. They havesome very small sailfin (for now small at least) pleco’s in the store and Icould get one for my big tank to help with the algae build up that’s beenappearing this weekend. I haven’t changed my lighting schedule and suddenlyI’m getting an algae build up, which I guess is good in a way, except I haveno algae eating fish, LOL. I also had to move some plants out of the tankbecause someone (I’m thinking the angel fish) are uprooting the smallerplants and/or eating some of them. I need to find some hardier plants Iguess, they leave the bigger ones alone.My question is this, should I waitto get the pleco until I move the community fish into my 55 gallon becauseof the added bioload or will he benefit enough by eating my algae for it tobe okay? I’m hoping my Aquaclear 110 shows up this week, I ordered it acouple weeks ago on ebay and they shipped it USPS (unfortunately) so whoknows how long it’ll tank due to the weather in Seattle. I’m going to putthe filter on the 125 gallon for some added filtration.Amber [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]