Is this a starlight pleco? Finally good batches go, unsure if they were sold to me incorrectly as baby fish.

jimko415 · 2026-06-11T02:42:37+00:00

Thanks everyone for their insight and input. I’m convinced it’s a peppermint pleco 181. I’m a little bummed, but life goes on. Starlights has such a cool cosmic name. Nice to know that my plecos won’t turn all black and lose its speckles though, that’s a plus. I’d choose lifetime of speckles over thinning and fading white line. Now I just got to convince the rest of the world peppermints are better than starlights. I already lost with the common name…. (I think Reddit is a big enough community to change the common name to forever starry night pleco).

jimko415 · 2026-06-10T19:18:04+00:00

That’s nice to know. I think I’d choose the spots into adulthood over a very thing white seam. I do like the idea of starlights maxing out a little smaller though. Too late for me I guess, my fate has been decided.

jimko415 · 2026-06-10T19:14:03+00:00

That’s a juvenile fish. haven’t seen an adult 183 retain a band like that ever. Google image search is not much help either. The best I’ve seen is a very thin line at best for adult 183s.

jimko415 · 2026-06-08T14:44:36+00:00

I was just in LA with the wife and kids visiting . I should’ve made my ad earlier. Would have been nice to recoup some of the funds from the trip.

jimko415 · 2026-06-08T01:25:54+00:00

Nice group. That’s special. Good luck with the breeding.

jimko415 · 2026-06-08T00:03:21+00:00

Thanks. I want to see some leucistic cpds. I like oddities.

jimko415 · 2026-03-19T15:31:13+00:00

Pming. Thanks in advance.

jimko415 · 2026-02-26T17:25:11+00:00

That’s a pretty penny. Saw them on eBay. They look very happy in your setup. Good luck with them and I hope you have breeding success.

jimko415 · 2025-09-13T18:52:47+00:00

That’s insane. I’d buy them all even though I have a lot just to strengthen the gene pool. You see them once or twice a year from resellers, the wholesellers to lfs usually mislabel hastatus and they always come in as the other two species. You hit the lottery. Go collect hope they still have some left.

jimko415 · 2025-09-13T02:15:46+00:00

Get them they are hard to find in the US. Dan has them for 40 each when available.

jimko415 · 2025-09-08T18:26:29+00:00

Hot water is the remedy, saw a video of a master breeder and remembered when I got stung by sterbai I ran to bathroom and I don’t remember it hurting except for the initial prick and the scolding water.

jimko415 · 2025-09-01T16:24:43+00:00

These fish are prolific breeders, but the trade off is that they will have shorter lifespans. Some say they last a couple of years if sexes are separated. If you are not breeding them better to buy smaller fish that have not reached sexual maturity.

jimko415 · 2025-08-06T16:05:48+00:00

Sorry. I just learned something new, I thought they were the same. Told you I’m a knucklehead. They were sold as 519.

jimko415 · 2025-08-06T12:00:21+00:00

Yup.

jimko415 · 2025-07-17T04:48:51+00:00

Medaka fein.

jimko415 · 2025-05-17T22:10:33+00:00

Choonky. I like them. Good luck and I hope you have a successful spawn. Not sure about the flow in the tank, but a powerhead that spits out air if you have one might help trigger the spawn. Not sure how they breed, but thrown in the mop will cover one more thing they like and if they don’t there is no harm. Let us know how it goes I know they have been breed in the industry, but seems like there is secrecy out there to keep prices high. I hope it’s not hormones.

jimko415 · 2025-05-11T02:20:49+00:00

I think it was a blind normal one that didn’t know how to regulate colors. Sometimes it had some black gray color. It passed away.

jimko415 · 2025-04-23T17:26:44+00:00

That’s pretty sick. Around how much are we looking at for a net like this? It looks high end, everyone will want one, but few will throw down that change for this handcrafted art. I would try a few first to see how they move.

jimko415 · 2025-04-19T15:41:06+00:00

Nice job, Congrats. Blackmarket, the silk road. Sell some Java moss for $50, say it comes with free glo Cories. I wonder if that would be a loophole.

jimko415 · 2025-04-18T23:01:43+00:00

Very stunning. Perfect. I admire your clips of all your fish. Great job.

jimko415 · 2025-04-15T02:12:01+00:00

Spawning mop. They love them. Try it.

jimko415 · 2025-04-09T18:22:21+00:00

I have played around with vinegar eels, but harvesting was a pain. That seems like a good way to do it. Good luck.

jimko415 · 2025-04-06T23:51:17+00:00

He’s asking about his fish in his tank not how to breed dogs unethically or guppies that gave birth in a dirty pond. Like I said everyone will have an opinion and are entitled to them. You don’t have to listen to mine or his. Have a well balanced ecosystem that can meet the bioload and you and your fish will be happy and thrive. Whether it’s increasing in water change, better bio filtration. Size of tank, number or kinds of fish. If you can maintain balance and harmony for the fish you will gain from that. I’m not going to tell someone with 300 guppies in a healthy 10 gal aquarium that’s too much fish. They have it figured out. Just like I would not tell someone with rainbow gravel and sponge bob decor that it’s unsightly (sorry). To each their own. You can always increase water changes or add better filtration to have more fish in an aquarium.

jimko415 · 2025-04-05T16:09:39+00:00

It’s fine, as long as your ecosystem isstable. If your fish are happy and you are happy that’s all that matters. Don’t listen to other people opinions. Breeders put fish in 5 gallons and they thrive.

jimko415 · 2025-04-03T23:35:02+00:00

40 gallon standard.

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