How Much Should I Sell My Common Plec For

[samxx]

ok
he is 20 cm long unsexed & just wordering what you think i should sell him for

 

[Bloo]

I'm afraid little to nothing Because the are so difficult to rehome. At best you can hope you find a good home with the right size tank for it

 

[black angel]

To be honest you will be lucky to just give him away.

Snap

 

[samxx]

yes i through free was a good price to just wordered if you lot through different

 

[rixy]

have to agree.FREE.my local fish shop has 6 large common plecs all bpought in by customers.

 

[samxx]

i really do not want to take him to a fish store
coz i do care about him & he is one of my fave fish i have i just to not feel it fair to keep him in the tank i am
i want to know where he is going ect

 

[big mick]

It will be hard rehoming him yourself as by the time you find someone who A. Has the room to house him properly and more importantly B. Wants a common plec he may have grown larger thsn your tank.

Good luck trying to rehome him but I think back to the LFS is the best bet but dont expect anything for him.

 

[Nevergone815]

i don't now how ir is over in the UK, but in the US, commons are a dime a dozen (not literally). you will find that they sell for $2.50-$3.50 (depending on where you go) and theiur will be like 6 in every tank. people buy them not knowing of their size and needs so they keep buying more. personally (i have done this in the past) release them into a local stream or pond. do this during the warmer months like summer and he should do fine as the temp lowers over time. i did this in my uncle's pond (which had little human interference- fed them and occasioanally cleaned some of the algae in the water only). i checked on it every year and it was doing great. it went from being like 10" to like 2-3 feet!!! so if you do this than your common pleco will be in a spot that you are familiar with and thrive. you can even see him every once in a while (if the water is clear).

i hope i helped a little

 

[Bloo]

i really do not want to take him to a fish store
coz i do care about him & he is one of my fave fish i have i just to not feel it fair to keep him in the tank i am
i want to know where he is going ect

Your lfs will definitely put him in something large than a 24 gallon - so he'll most certainly be better off in larger living space. I know it's tough (to let go ), but it's the best of a fish that size.

 

[samxx]

no i want to know where he is going
i know a women who got a big fish from a fish store i think it was a parrot fish a full size one
& She put him with some smaller fish & the parrot started picking on the smaller fish
& i said where yr parrot fish gone
& she said i killed him he was so mean to the other fish
i do not want that happening to my common

i don't now how ir is over in the UK, but in the US, commons are a dime a dozen (not literally). you will find that they sell for $2.50-$3.50 (depending on where you go) and theiur will be like 6 in every tank. people buy them not knowing of their size and needs so they keep buying more. personally (i have done this in the past) release them into a local stream or pond. do this during the warmer months like summer and he should do fine as the temp lowers over time. i did this in my uncle's pond (which had little human interference- fed them and occasioanally cleaned some of the algae in the water only). i checked on it every year and it was doing great. it went from being like 10" to like 2-3 feet!!! so if you do this than your common pleco will be in a spot that you are familiar with and thrive. you can even see him every once in a while (if the water is clear).

i hope i helped a little

yes i when i got him about 4 years ago he was a little baby not he huge
wow it would be great to do that with my common

 

[morgan]

Hi, I have seen Common Plecos at about 12" or so for sale in lfs. They ask £35. I doubt that you would get anything like that for it, that's the selling price not the buying-in price. Once it is re-homed you would not know what happened to it. Once mine needs a bigger tank (I bought a £416 one brand new at Xmas) I will probably get a second-hand really big one. They can be quite cheap second-hand. It would be against UK law and very cruel (far too cold) to release it into the wild here. Probably ok in the US as some plecos come from the Gulf of Mexico anyway.

 

[Saedcantas]

The most I've seen asked for a fully grown Gippiceps even (18") was £15.

When it comes to tankbusting fish, the bigger is not the better, grown on fish do not command higher prices the bigger they get so it's free to a good home with someone off here or maybe if you're lucky about £5 credit at your LFS.

 

[BigIan]

it`ll have to be given away....

Very few people want or have room for a full grown plec,
So you`l be lucky to give him away...

If not you will have to give him to your LFS as they will be able to pop him in a tank big enough for him, and hopefully place him with some one who knows how to look after him

 

[Nevergone815]

It would be against UK law and very cruel (far too cold) to release it into the wild here. Probably ok in the US as some plecos come from the Gulf of Mexico anyway.

i am from the north east US and don't know of any laws against it here... so i definately wouldn't know of any over there. the problem is probably that it is not native to the area and in northern US it can follow the streams and rivers back into the area it is naturally from. as for it being cold, i do hear that it can get a lot colder in the UK... i didn't think about that sorry for some ill advice. but i do know that they are common in outside ponds to help with algae. so maybe if you build a pond... you can keep your pleco samxx.

as for the price you would get... free if your lucky but most likely YOU will have to pay to take it because they are so dam common.

sorry buddy... i would take it off of your hands if i had the room but i don't. the best thing that i can suggest is find a home with someone you know or give it back to the lfs (if they will take it).

 

[africantigerfish7]

Do not release it into the wild because it will die in the UK! Even the north east US doesn't have tropical weather, and how would you know what happened to it? Well good luck getting rid of that thing.