Fish!

[truepenny]

So, for reasons that do not need exploring at this juncture, I had to charge the camera batteries and take some pictures this morning. And while I was at it, I thought I'd take some (very bad) pictures of the albino bristlenose plecostomus who joined the household on Saturday.

This is a seriously awesome fish, people. My crappy pictures do not do it justice.

(Of the four small household predators, only Catzilla has actually noticed the pleco; he is baffled as to why he can SEE it but not REACH it, but does not find it particularly enthralling. Which is just as well.)

Comments

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

Cthulhufshhhh!

http://planetcatfish.com/catelog/image.php?image_id=7813

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Yes, although we do not know yet if this particular fish will grow up to be Cthulhu.

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

Then it shall be the Bride of Cthulhu!

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Yes!

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Perhaps I should name it Childe Cthulhu.

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

To the Dark Aquarium came?

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Well, from the fish's perspective, the "Balinese lantern" ornament makes a pretty good tower.

indeed...

[themadblonde]

although, I think "child of Cthulu & a carp" might be a little more accurate....

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

Feesh! Feeshy-feesh!

Getting fish to hold still for the camera is even harder than getting cats to hold still for the camera.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Well, and albino fish against bright red gravel . . .

(I wasn't expecting to be able to get an albino, so I did not plan the tank decor properly.)

[peacockharpy.livejournal.com]

...and suddenly that Shadow Unit easter egg makes a lot more sense. :)

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Actually, it's the other way 'round.

Until I looked up plecos for that vignette, I had had no idea that one could actually keep catfish in an aquarium. (I hadn't known how many species of them there were, nor that there were any of them that weren't the enormous monsters like in this userpic.)

[porcinea.livejournal.com]

I have a non-albino but extremely pale and light reddish plecostomus who's taken over my tank. That thing is a monster! Fascinating fish.

Yeah fish

[thefrozennorth.livejournal.com]

Few freshwater tanks are complete without a pleco. Albino is always cool.

So far, I've yet to see another example of the 10inch blue-eyed pleco that dominated the display tank at the pet store I used to work at as a kid.

Hurray for fish.