Hello; I have a common plecostomus that pulled an unusual stunt this morning. A little background. I keep floating plants (hornwort) in the tank with the plecostomus. I have noticed that it swims up into the plants at night and grazes on the algae growing there. It also feeds on the plants as I find bare stems from time to time.
This morning I found it lying still on its back with its fins erected and a big chunk of algae in its mouth. This has not happened before. I approached the tank and it did not move, I thought it was dead. I raised the lid on the hood and touched it with an aquarium tool. It moved and swam around a bit. It then tried to hang on the glass, but the wad of algae seemed to make that difficult. I did a water change just in case, but it was not due. A few minutes later I heard the plecostomus banging around in the tank briefly.
It now seems fine and is doing the normal hang on the glass all day routine. The algae chunk is gone (perhaps swallowed- perhaps spit out). I suppose it nearly choked on the stuff. This is a new to me trick.
This morning I found it lying still on its back with its fins erected and a big chunk of algae in its mouth. This has not happened before. I approached the tank and it did not move, I thought it was dead. I raised the lid on the hood and touched it with an aquarium tool. It moved and swam around a bit. It then tried to hang on the glass, but the wad of algae seemed to make that difficult. I did a water change just in case, but it was not due. A few minutes later I heard the plecostomus banging around in the tank briefly.
It now seems fine and is doing the normal hang on the glass all day routine. The algae chunk is gone (perhaps swallowed- perhaps spit out). I suppose it nearly choked on the stuff. This is a new to me trick.
