After a year and a half, his reign of terror is over.

[truepenny]

The albino bristlenose plecostomus, who killed every tank mate he had and thus was clearly an Evil Albino, died sometime last night. For all that he was the psychopath of the Ancistrus world, I was fond of him, and I hope tiny algae-eating albino fish go somewhere really awesome after they die. In his case, I hope he gets to turn into the dragon he always wanted to be.

Boy is it quiet in here without the aquarium going.

Comments

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

:-(

[coffeeem.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear. Condolences. It's good that he died without ever being disabused of his convictions of dragonhood. Maybe in the afterlife he'll find himself swimming through clouds with the Chinese dragons, bringing rain.

[inizitu.livejournal.com]

=( I'm so sorry.

I didn't used to be a fish person, and I was surprised at how attached I got to my partner's fishes. The house feels a little emptier whenever you lose one. Especially the ones that have been around for a long time. =(

[pameladean]

Oh, what a shame. I hope he is dragoned indeed.

P.

[zelda888.livejournal.com]

What sorts of tankmates did you put him in with? We had a bristlenose named Uglifish who was with us for several years, succumbing only to the stresses of two days in a gallon mayonnaise jar in the front seat of a moving van. IIRC, she was a she rather than a he, but she coexisted with a loach and a school of barbs for most of her years. There are tricks to getting bottom-dwellers to allow each other territory, but I thought otocinculus were the real terrors of the algae-eating world...

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

He killed another albino bristlenose pleco (whom I believed to be female) and two apple snails. (I am not, I admit, 100% sure that he was the cause of death for the snails, but I could not otherwise find a reason.) Since my fondness is specifically for plecos, I was not trying to keep other species of fish.