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    " arrrrrrgh " my golden stripe royal pleco ! "

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    man ! I just discover my favourite 8" golden stripe royal pleco " dead ! ". There were no external scars or injuries , eyes were not sunken , belly is not sucken or bloated. It was still eating the previous day ! but the only strange thing I noticed before it " kick the bucket " is that instead of clinging or rest on the drift wood , it was positioning itself at the filtering system outlet ! very very strange ! my the other plecos looks fine ! hm ! what have gone wrong ! .

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    hi akoh

    sorry to hear of your pl*co...have you checked your water parameter?....perhaps it may be time to flush your filter which all of us aquarist are guilty of for not doing filter flush for months![:0]

    how long have you got this pl*co? Perhaps it could have been the end of its natural life.
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    sad loss for u, we feel for u[]

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    On 1/22/2002 9:57:31 AM

    hi akoh

    sorry to hear of your pl*co...have you checked your water parameter?....perhaps it may be time to flush your filter which all of us aquarist are guilty of for not doing filter flush for months![:0]

    how long have you got this pl*co? Perhaps it could have been the end of its natural life.
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    David , I have this fellow for about 1 year, generally the lifespan for Royal Pleco is about 50 yrs !. The biggest Royal Pleco I saw was about 2'in length !, hence unlikely it have reaches its natural life.
    I did a system flushing about 2 weeks ago ( thats after 6 months ). water parameter checked was okay ! I have another 10" Royal pleco and some others L series in the same tank and they looks okay !. I'm really puzzled with had had happened ! * sob * , Thks for your input !

    Akoh
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    oops wrong guess on the age thing huh?[]...do you happen to have substrate in your ple*co tank?...if you do perhaps it may be good to give it a vacum as sometimes as the dirt collects at the gravel, bacteria may form and get certain bottom feeders sick....like corys that loss their barbels[]
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    David, mine is a " bare bottom " tank , man ! look like I've to look another closer look for more clues, once again Kum sia !.

    Akoh
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    hmmm?...this is a mystery....sorry akoh...cant help you much....[]
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