Red Eared Slider Eating an Albino Pleco

Sorry for the not so good quality video, took this using a camera phone...

I went down extra early to our pond to feed my turtle and the fish living there. To my horror, I saw my turtle, "Shingo -the kappa" eating my albino plecostomus/Janitor fish... To make things creepy, my pleco was still gasping for air and struhling at the time, despite losing half of its body! And I thought the pleco armor would help... -Guess it proved useless against the mighty "Shingo - the Kappa." This can probably pass as a form of animal cruelty, but nature's cruel, plus it was the pleco's fault for being slow...

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Turtle
• Red-Eared Slider
• Red eared slider
• redeared slider
• plecostomus
• pleco
• albino pleco
• feeding time
• Fish
• janitor
• janitor fish

[khaerosamech]

johnuico, bisaya ka bai? anyway, pleco's are pretty tough. i saw a video once that showed a pleco's innards being scraped off, then it was put back in the water. the little sucker just swam away. jeez.

[johnnuico]

Oo Bisaya ko. Hehehe. Grabe bitaw ning mga pleco dugay kaayo manga matay... Anyway, there's lots plecos here now. Thanks to that papyrus plant.

[redoscar21]

I feed live fish and I have given a mouse or two to my arowana so I don't have a whole lot against feeding live food. But the fish I feed are gone in 2 seconds before they are eaten. The pleco is being eaten alive, thats a little cruel in my opinion. I don't have a problem with feeding it the pleco. But why not kill it first so it wont have to suffer for that long?

[johnnuico]

Well, all I can say is, I don't really know, was it sheer dumb luck that the turtle caught it, or was the pleco sick? Nobody knows, there are several other plecos on there but there has never been another pleco being eaten, not that I know of anyway. My bet is, the pleco must have been sick otherwise, my RES would never have caught it.

[SkOpEd13]

@ZeroVarsity No shit

[ZeroVarsity]

@SkOpEd13 You clearly said "Gasp for air"

[SkOpEd13]

@ZeroVarsity Gasp for water*

[ZeroVarsity]

@SkOpEd13 Fish don't "gasp for air"

[350zdemon]

this is life!! fucking deal with it ill dumb up the video

[SkOpEd13]

If you saw that it was gasping for air than why didnt you kill it cuz obviously the turtle wasnt getting the job done quick enough

[B0DawGH]

@johnnuico yup. RES[s] are too slow to catch fishes in big ponds. mine just eats pellets that i give for the fishes.

[Davastor12]

@johnnuico Or your RES used to have been the Flash.

[madturtlefan]

hey,im keeping a turtle but it always shit around and ill got frustrated by it, do they eat the shit ? and is it safe for my turtle cox u have to put he chlorine thingy,and do the fish has a smaller kind???And will my turtle eat them?Mine is a red eared slider...

[Tigerpuffer]

This is why people should never keep fish with Turtles...