What the heck did I catch?

[hatcreek]

With that thread title, I thought you might be seeking medical advice, Dean.


Never mind... Carry on.

[dean c]

With that thread title, I thought you might be seeking medical advice, Dean.


Never mind... Carry on.

I aint puttin that chit on flickr!

[2009joeyfish]

Pleco.I have one just like that in my aquarium,only a lot smaller.

[TRCM]

This. They're in just about every lake in Florida

I lived the 1st 30 yrs of my life in florida...never seen one, and we fished all the time.

[LEN B]

Plecostomus

[21XDC]

Plecostomus

[wildturkey]

Throw them on the bank for blue herons.

[adchunts]

Pleco

Some of the power plant lakes around here stock them to help control algae growth. I “lassoed” one on Calaveras Lake a few years back.

[hatcreek]

I aint puttin that chit on flickr!

[zrp]

I lived the 1st 30 yrs of my life in florida...never seen one, and we fished all the time.

Wish I had never seen them. They are an ugly thing.

[alanhore]

Plecostomus

+1

[rboren]

Filet it and see if it tastes like chicken. If it does it could be a Chicken Fish.

[Rodney P]

Filet it and see if it tastes like chicken. If it does it could be a Chicken Fish.

Or sell it at the local pet store and go have a nice steak dinner

[Rider99XX]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loricariidae

[Hoot]

Had freshwater tanks for years and it looks like a plecostomus to me.

That's what I thought as well had aquariums for years and worked in a Tropical Fish store way back in my high school days

[mark-o]

That's some cold hard cash at an independent aquarium shop for one that big.

I bought a 3in one years ago for my aquarium and 6 years later I sold it back to the same shop for $85 at just under 12in. He was getting too big for a 75 gallon tank.

[squib]

Others above have correctly named it. There are a ton of them in Falcon. They can get established in warm, southern lakes and in power plant lakes. In lakes that get colder, they die off because they are somewhat tropical in nature.

[Bub]

I bought a 3in one years ago for my aquarium and 6 years later I sold it back to the same shop for $85 at just under 12in. He was getting too big for a 75 gallon tank.

I tore down my tank last year and ended up giving away all my fish. I tried several times to sell them back to area pet stores and aquarium supply places but the weren't interested. My Plecostomus was over 12" at about 7 years old. I wish I could have gotten that much for mine!

[Phoenix919]

Plecostomus but man that's a Biggy

[mrblue1122]

They are tough as nails also....I tore down my tank once when I moved...As I was netting the other fish..my pleco must have got scared and jumped out of the tank and I didn't see it....it landed behind the table I had my tank on..on a Hotrod Magazine...I found it about 30 minutes later...stiff as a board...dropped him back in the water and he swam off!!!!must have had him for another 3 or 4 years...