This girl has quite the story behind her, I live in Raleigh,NC and went up to Buffalo, NY for vacation and to see my g/f's grandparents and visit an AMAZING fishstore up there (if you live in the Buffalo area check out "The fish place" if you haven't it's an AMAZING store, w/ a great owner (and his future wife is a wonderful lady as well)) now that the commercial is over on w/ the story, so went up there to the store, and instead of purchasing fish and having to go through the airline hassle on carrying them on the plane I decided to just get some plants b/c they would ship fine in a half full bag of air no water (well a splash to keep it moist in the bag) and would do fine until my flight out the next day and my arrival home about 26 hours after being bagged up. So that is exactly what I did, and when i arrived home as I stated 26 hours after plants being bagged up (and sitting in my suitcase being tossed around at the airport, etc.) I removed my plants and put them into my planted 20g, and as I went to throw the bag out something splashed in the less then 1/2" of water in the bottom of the bag so I stuck my hand in and tossed this thing into my tank to discover it was a pleco of some sort that SURVIVED, upon further investigation (contact w/ store) the only tank I pulled a plant out of that had fish in it contained red marble bristlenose plecos, a rare color variation 20 dollar pleco, so this girl (no bristles so assumed to be female unless bristles show up) is a trooper that's survived the worst of the worst (and it's been over 72 hours now she's been in my tank) here she is:
and not so good pic w/ flash:
and not so good pic w/ flash:
