GREEN PHANTOM PLECO L200 - NOT PLEASED OWNER VERY LAZY AZZ

[2_Basic]

Ok..so I picked up the green phantom about a year ago on tips from a few highly respected forum members. I thought he would do a lot of sucking..a hard working non stopping algae sucking machine. ... BOY WAS I WRONG!!!

Maybe this L200 is a rare character out of the normal green phantom crowd....but he literally does NOTHING.

24/7, each day, for a month, for almost one year.

If I made a 24 hour video on him you would think it was a still picture.

My tank is bare bottom with several pieces of wood. He attaches himself there an simply only moves inches when food drops around.

I thought he was such a nice green color because green is my favourite color. I can't even enjoy that bc the second he sees me coming he disappears. Maybe that's why the L200 got the name green phantom.

Ok... I feel better now... lol

Bushy nose plecos are definitely hard workers tho.

[DiscusLoverJeff]

If you make too much fish food available, they will get hooked on that and not do what you intended him to do.

[trungnguyen]

I have 2 green phantoms in my tank, and both of them are doing a good job. I see them cleaning the glass all the time...Don't put too much food during the day time. At night, just put a small piece near where they usually stay. In that case, you will present the plecos get hungry and search for food at night and not bothering discus.

[2_Basic]

I don't believe you..... put a video showing the green phantom moving and cleaning the glass with the light on.

I guess the only way you would see it was if you have a bare tank.

Not that I don't trust your honesty...I'm just too tilted by this dam pleco. Didn't get even close to what I expected.

[YSS]

If I made a 24 hour video on him you would think it was a still picture.

This was funny, but some plecos do not move around much at all. I have a few like that in my tank.

[trungnguyen]

my tank is bare botom, and video will be coming soon

[2_Basic]

This was funny, but some plecos do not move around much at all. I have a few like that in my tank.

haha ...ya I think I definitely got one of them. I guess only way is u have a bare tank and nothing for him to hide under.

Only then could I enjoy my favorite color.

[2_Basic]

my tank is bare botom, and video will be coming soon

ah...u don't need to bro lol ... just wanted to vent my frustration about him somewhere lol

[Sandy Clay]

I had a pleco , not sure of the variety, that only seemed to eat wood. All he did was poop! I finally sold him, just too much cleaning up after "him"!

[DiscusLoverJeff]

Been there, done that Sandy. Ate more wood than a termite, Lol.

[Allwin]

Been there, done that Sandy. Ate more wood than a termite, Lol.

Oh yea, when I introduced the drift wood sometime back. Plecos pull the hell out of me,lol.

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[2_Basic]

I looked again today and it appears that I bought a WOODPECKER and not a a Pleco. Lol

I think u guys are right he's probably hooked on wood. This would explain why I rarely see him eating fish food too.