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- From: ljkong@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Lennard J. Kong)
- Subject: Re: Strange pleco. story
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 05:47:28 GMT
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- In article <1jvg5aINNopr@shelley.u.washington.edu> stick@carson.u.washington.edu (suzanne cherniack) writes:
- >I had a strange experience (as did my pleco.) and was wondering if any
- >My question is how the pleco. could've survived for four or so hours
- >out of the water. Are they used to tidal ebbs and flows, or what?
- >I'm quite amazed at this and thought I'd post it. Any replies would
- >be appreciated.
- I think fishes which have hard scaly skin as opposed to soft skin tend to
- not dry out as easily as others so arent damaged because of lack of water as
- fast as others, also I believe most catfishes can survive under poor oxygen
- conditions better than other breeds. Plecos do in fact sometimes live in very
- muddy dirty water in the wild.
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- Lennard
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