A BAD Day in My Pleco Breeding Operation

In this video I talk about a difficult and stressful day I recently had in the fishroom. I fully acknowledge that this pales in comparison to bad days that others have had, though I wanted to share my experiences as I always share the positive sides of my operation, so I felt it only fair to share a negative side as well. If you have any questions at all or are interested in purchasing some of the fish seen in my videos, feel free to email me at [e-mail] and be sure to subscribe to see more amazing pleco videos!
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[@kellycasperhanson4426]

I'm so sorry! I've watched your videos for a long time, and it's clear you're an excellent, responsible fish keeper. How heartbreaking 💔!
I appreciate you sharing some of your bad days. It's a reminder it can happen to any of us.
After years of breeding and selling BNPs, I had my terrible series of events.
A HOB filter had malfunctioned in a 20 long tank leading to an epistylis infection in my juveniles, and it hit FAST, even in a bare-bottom tank with DAILY water changes. I never missed a single day!
It killed 100+ fish in a few days even though I tried ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING to save them.
Only 6 survived.
Sadly, I cross-contaminated the epistylis into my adults tank by sharing a drainage hose.
In a day, my adults started dying, with their intestines turning dark, almost black.
The epistylis caused massive intestinal infections which killed most of my amazing breeding stock in just a few days.
It was a terrible lesson to learn. I had only recently learned about epistylis, and was SHOCKED at how quickly it could kill. I know a lot about epistylis now.
Fortunately, I had divided my breeders into multiple tanks, so I had enough to rebuild my population, and I now have a nice batch of super red juveniles right now.
Thank you so much for wonderful videos. I hope the days ahead will be happy and productive ones with an abundance of healthy fish.

[@FoisyAquatics]

Ughhhh so sorry to hear about that! Cross contamination can be a real killer for sure. Have you seen the video I did on that topic? I literally have different hose attachments for every tank because of that fear!

[@kellycasperhanson4426]

@@FoisyAquatics
No! I didn't see it. I will definitely go back and look for it.
Thank you!

[@marcoscastillo1650]

Rip my favorite fish in the world!!!!! 😢

[@amrullahazif]

Thank you for the sharing.. but sorry to hear the lost.. 💔

[@monicaharmonica7152]

Oh noooo!!! That’s so awful to see/hear. 😢

[@justynaganczarska4653]

Oh dear... I'm so sorry... Few weeks ago I lost three of my sterbai corys. They die one nigth, looking perfectly healthy and chunky 😑 Sterbai cory are cheap, nothing special fish, but for me they was priceless 🙄

[@MacJank7]

I’ve had some gut punches this year as well…my first albino L333 wigglers from the group I got from you…the male ate them.

[@FoisyAquatics]

The first spawns are such a hit or miss!

[@Lego9215]

What should you use to treat the fish so no issue with the rest of the fish especially cloudy skin

[@LushSaltyAquariums]

Hard to look at ... appreciate the candor.

[@Hydrahandle7]

Oh man!

[@WiiHunt95]

How do I get some of those plecos?

[@FoisyAquatics]

Feel free to email me at [e-mail]