What's up fishtank people. Fishtanktv.com, dustinsfishtanks.com all new look! You totally
got to check it out! Dustinsfishtanks.com got a makeover baby and I am excited about
it. I got a lot of goodies on there for you. Today is Sunday. It is Species Sunday folks!
But first we interrupt your regularly scheduled Species Sunday to bring you something exclusive
that just came in here to dustinsfishtanks on YouTube. Ladies and gentleman how to piss
your wife off while you are doing a water change. Here we go! First and foremost what
you want to do is you want to do your water changes while your life is back here working
on the laundry. Now what you want to do to piss your life off while you are doing water
changes is you want to have your water running like this, but then what you want to do is
you want to turn it up real hard so that this thing pops off right here and sprays your
wife in the face, while she is folding your socks. You can see a tiny little bit of the
water glistening off there a little bit. I was cleaning it up and I was like I have to
show this to some of you fishtank people. She had like this open and it had like water
all over it and everything. Definitely sprayed the whole laundry room this morning, my wife
while she was folding my socks. Can you imagine that? How to piss your wife off during a water
change? That's pretty much it. Especially when she is hooking me up, you know folding
my clothes. Had to share that with you all. Not sure if you guys have ever done that,
but definitely keep the Mrs happy, keep your parents happy, if you are still living at
home and don't get them wet while you are doing water changes on your 220. So with that
being said as a little intro. I want to talk about something today a fish that I have been
critical of and not spoken about even though there are hundreds of different species up.
I want to talk about Plecos today. Plecos loracariidae, I don't know how to pronounce
it, because no one has ever said it to me. They got a bunch of different numbers after
them for all the different species. Plecos, plecasimus you name it. I will start with
why I haven't done a lot about them. My first encounter with Plecos were back in the day.
My dude David had a couple of them in his old tanks. He had them, and they just got
huge. I had a theory on this and I have spoken about this on videos way past it. I have always
thought that Plecos is a whole havoc kind of like that silent dude you don't want to
mess with. He doesn't really start fights, but if you ever mess with him he would tare
you up. I have always that about Plecos, that they could just rip you to shreds, but they
are just pretty docile for the most parts. As far Plecos go though, I haven't kept them.
I have been critical of them in the past. Especially in the planted tank, because I
have seen them just go up on Amazon Sword and just like take holes out of it. Obviously
it depends on the species, but for today I am going to need some help from you all and
your favorite Plecos, but I just wanted to talk about briefly. When I was in Peru I was
them everywhere, like all over the place like schools...We went to this one river.If I can
the video I will look into it. Where there was just like this massive school of them.
I don't think they are even like †really that great at the schooling fish, but there
was tons of them. Obviously they got the mouth down so they are like a bottom feeder persey.
A lot of people say they need a heavy veggy diet. One of the things I don't want people
to do is get a Pleco thinking that they are going to fix the algae problem, okay? This
is another level, but Plecos aren't going fix your algae problem. They will maintain
something, but don't throw them in there if you have got a huge algae problem and expect
the Pleco to just do all the work. Oliver Knott and I disagree on this by the way. He
is world renowned aquascaper, Way better than main. He has to add the Plecos at the beginning.
I would say give them some time and then let the tank run a little while before you would
add Plecos, just so there is a little bit of algae for him instead of putting them in
there barren. But two weeks and there's a bunch of different
species. Talk about some of the species I want to talk about, I will show you my tank.
Talk about some of the species, of course mine doesn't come out. I have got a rubber
nose in there that I have been showing on the Facebook fanpage. The ones that I think
are sweet: Zebra Plecos, Scarla Plecos, Royal Plecos. My boy had a golden nugget pleco.
I am just going to show these here. Gold nugget, royal and this is just google search for Pleco
variety. Definitely check these out. I have been told these Bristle nose Plecos are really
good in a planted tank although I have never kept on myself. One of the things I consider
about them too is that they eat not just plant matter, but also meat and they need wood on
their diet. Some of them eat meet, which I don't know enough about them, but let me tell
you about there are some really rare ones right here. check that one, how sick is that?
A lot of crazy varieties of them that you are definitely going to check out. Zebra,
gold nugget, royal...loving the royals! Royals get that little bright orange tail, so I love
to know what you know about Plecos. How you keep them. The thing that is cool to me about
them and people talked about this. Go on Dustin's Facebook, dustinsfishtanks on Facebook and
check out some of this Plecos that people are showing, because they are really crazy,
just all the variety, all kinds of different things. They do get large. The standard common
2.49 at Petco Plecos. They do get really big! And they are just making a mess, I mean they
just shred tanks. I had probably a half a dozen people say: "I got this sweet Pleco,
I have had him forever and he is twenty years old and I want to put him in my planted tank"
and I am like good luck! Tell me what you know about Plecos, also today is the last
day to get the dirted tank guide on sale on dustinsfishtanks.com.
Thank you everybody for letting me pump that. But it's thirty three bucks. I turned 33 on
Friday, running the special through day. Today is the last day. Also I am excited to share
with you guys, It's the longest video I have ever done. It's my top "thirty three mistakes
you can make in your aquarium", not just planted tanks, but just universal aquarium advice.
It's forty three minutes long. It's great, I did it with a HD camera. I went to all thirty
three of them plus a bonus tip. That is available and it's on sale on dustinsfishtanks.com as
well. Then finally like I said check out the dustinsfishtanks on Facebook. Look at some
of these other people's Plecos. Drop me a line, a comment with what you know about Plecos.
Share it to the whole community to know, because I am not super knowledgeable about them, because
I like to keep my plants in one piece. That is what's going on. Hope you are having a
great week, hope everything is going well for you. Check out the new look on dustinsfishtanks.com,
sign up. I got the free top 10 planted tank tips, I have also got a video linked with
that where I go through the whole things with some bonus footage. That's what's going! Welcome
new subscribers, if you like what I am doing subscribe and have a blast fishtank people.
Later!