True that! Mine was eating fresh vegetables and let me clean the glass

i thought so too.. in the Philippines they are called janitor fish… so they are not good at cleaning?

@@rldabomb33 Sometimes yes, i think they really clean alguaes in a fish tank when they are really hungry

They eat everything including algae

that's the problem with many people who have fish as pets. If that fish of yours isn't native to your area, it is far better and safer for your environment to just kill them on the spot or give them to someone else who's more than willing to take care of them if you're tired of them. As inhumane as it sounds, killing them is a better option than letting them go into your local river where they'll do more damage than good.

It should be against the law for people to own invasive species as pets. This is the exact sort of thing that happens when you let stupid pet owners own animals that have the potential to cause environmental chaos.

They eat algae very well when they’re young but as they grow they become more omnivorous. They also only eat specific types of softer algae. Plecos in general poop a LOT! I had a long fin bristle nose, beautiful fish, however I had to keep siphoning out mounds of poo! People are better off with shrimps and snails as algae eaters.

Throw a living animal into the trash? That woman herself is trash. Wish you can ban people like that from ever buying living things

Well throwing in trash is actually more environmentally friendly than throwing it in a river, so there's a silver lining.

@@greenorigin7721 you have a point! But I think she should’ve at least killed it in a humane way before throwing it away, or better yet, burying it for plant fertilizer. Otherwise yes, the suffering of a single animal would be technically better then the suffering of an entire ecosystem

Weren't they smelly as well?

Exactly. A tremendous resource of protein being given to dogs as treats, when there are starving protein deficient populations of people all over the globe.

We need the next entrepreneur to start exporting from the USA and importing to Brazil. Seems like a natural fit.

@@bitesizeknowledge6574 not really. When fresh, the meat didn't have much of a smell after removing the armor and guts.

@@brunocauin ooh ok, i think i've seen this japanese guy tries to cook it and if i'm not mistaken he said that it smelled awful (i mean, he did caught it in the sewer so . . . .)

They taste good, with almost no fishbones and tastes a bit like chicken when fried, I don't understand why people don't eat them in USA and Mexico

@@valterzc8187they probably will now

Weird

Americans have a weird relationship with seafood

Freshwater bass tastes like absolutely nothing lol literally tasteless

My common pleco ate all my algae in my tank. I guess I was lucky in that sense. I got it FROM MY GROCERY STORE. So I made the mistake of assuming it was a much smaller type of pleco such as a bristlenose, for my tank. Yeah no. I can’t believe it’s that nonchalant. There should at LEAST be a little sign saying how huge and gross and ABUNDANT these freakish fish are lol. I got rid of my pleco this week and it’s a big relief I can’t lie. I do miss it a little tho. I had it for a year.

they eat seomthing becasue they get quite big and it doesnt take long

Plecos have been around in the aquarium hobby long before those big boxes store. I had one back in the 80s. I do agree however that perhaps import of plecos should be banned and they should have a KoS order like Florida has for pythons and other invasive species.

Most mom and pop shops sell them as algae eaters, too.

Not many Petco or PetSmart in Mexico

Invasive carp are being used to make fertilizer

There's a bowfishing channel where they said they gave them to farmers to feed to hogs.

You can throw them right in the garden. They stink for a day or two, but they dissolve right into the earth. My cats leave mice and moles in the yard and I just grind them into the ground, too. It prevents the smell and it enriches the soil.

thats where the left overs go after they use the filets.

@@briankleinschmidt3664 sorry to be that guy but make sure your cat is actually killing mice! Wouldn't want them killing native rodents (which can look similar)

Caldo

considering how many people were lied to about how big they got - I'm completely unsurprised they've made it into rivers, etc.

@@lesliejohnson2982 Well, it's not so much about lying, but being very uneducated both the buyers and the sellers. For example bristlenose pleco grows up to 5 inches, while regular pleco up to 20 inches. Fishes get sold in store way smaller, because they are still babies and then people get shocked that they end up being monster size.

@@alise4041 I worked in a pet store back in college - and there's a LOT more info out there than there was. Granted, I'm in my 40s so we were selling baby dinosaurs in pet stores.. but we were told to tell customers "The fish will grow to the size of the tank" which I *still* hear coming out of pet store employees' mouths from time to time. So I think you're right. Ignorance has caused a huge problem. :(

i had a roomates pleco commit suicide one time. Jumped the tank. We didnt find it until it was too late :'(((((

I've got 3 bristlenose in my current tank. I saw a video of some aquarium store owners from the USA in Bolivia, trying to get some new species for their stores, stop at a barge full of big plecos, all headed to market for food.

Plecos are hardy little guys. We found one in a old deactivated aquarium placed in a shed years ago. Still happily eating algae that grew, even though most of the water evaporated by then.

Your friend shouldn't be allowed to have pets. What a shithead.

Was it emptied before he threw it off or not? Tanks weigh a lot so that’s impressive

Same with Beta fish. I didnt know they could jump, mine did one day and I couldn’t find it until almost 10 hours later just lying on a the ground breathing, put it on water with blue drops and the beta was fine, lived for another 2 years

I drained my old tank down to the gravel and just left it like that for weeks because I didn't have buckets yet to scoop out the gravel, but the gravel started to stink so I had to get rid of it sooner than later .....after about 2 weeks, I started to scoop up the gravel and 3 Pleco's jumped up from the stinking, black water and started fluttering all over the tank bottom .. Devil Fish.

They'd be better if they gave proper information about the fish. Plecos do not eat algae only. They eat eggs, fry, tiny fish, and injured fish. I feel like they often do not fully research topics and have even seen them push false information about topics before.

Plecostomus have been sold in North American aquarium shops for well over 75 years.

i had one jump out of my tank and found him the next day alive on the floor. they are crazy good at surviving.

from fish pet stores to dog pet stores

I must be doing something right, I've had mine for 8 years 🤣 He's lazy.

Protect Pleco at all costs!

That is a good idea, as long as they can be isolated from other outside waters, other than the septic treatment ponds.

As a janitor I am offended by this statement because I good sir do not "eat waste"!😡

​@@onepunchmantolkienfan5383daddy chill

@@onepunchmantolkienfan5383 It's just pertaining to a particular fish, sir. It has nothing to do on what the fish really do and what a human janitor do. I do apologize if I ever hurt your ego, but that's not what it means...

it's also called "ikan sapu" in indonesia, literally means "broom fish" or "janitor fish".

I live in Central Mexico so I never see this fish , but I think it's great that you included the 2 recipes! 🤗🇲🇽

@@MexicoDigDoctor Where in central Mexico do you live? I'm in Mexico City (so, smack-down in the center of the country, both geographically and politically, and they're super common). I have adopted two of these fish in the past two years, and they were the lucky ones. Thousands are sold every day, and most of them end up dying because of irresponsible owners/sellers.

@ChibiHoshiDragon You Sir, have earned my subscription.

@@NeighborhoodOfBlue I don't post videos anymore since my kid is an adult now but Thanks for the Sub anyways And Semper Fi from a 90's 4th Battalion Parris Island Grad. What branch were you?

Wait so why don’t people want to eat them ?

I'd be like, "A clean aquarium is your life insurance policy."😁

these fish are Very predatory. i have had them in my fish tanks for years.... i've observed how they will latch onto fish and feed on the fish's slime layer, this opens the fish to infection and illness

@@AlpineHiker They do that because they're starving. Algea pellets can be had for them. Problem is they grow incredibly fast when fed properly.

So tell me, where can a person see plecos in the Kootenai?

thats a cool ass job I'm envious

They things eat the eggs n fry of native fish

he actually should've killed it, people forget that fish diversity will always have a domino effect to the environment around it. and with these invasive species ive seen an entire river die because of them, every other native fish will sooner or later become extinct in that river

Yeah sounds pretty short sighted and purely self serving. But we applaud selfishness when it's for ourselves, right??

Oh gosh people really... Its government fault letting invasive species live too long The fisherman? Even plumpy one is hardly to sell. This is not charity action, they have monthly bill to pay too. Bet nobody pay them to exterminate thoses fishes

​@@microwavedcheetosdid you not watch the video??? the whole point was that there is already an invasion of them, throwing one small fish back in to catch it later isn't going to change anything when there's 100k lbs of live fish already there

it's a common issue with business models built around invasive species no more invasive species = no more business

Yes they are so invasive native fishes like ayungin and tilapia are dwindling.

@@BOSSKIDLAT0120 Tilapias are actually doing well and its pretty surprising they are now found in Pasig river

Call Chinese people and they eat all

Knife fish are pervasive in Florida also.

having ate plecos the best route is tin snips to cut the skin free and peel them

fillet a skate? that's serious. i taught fish cleaning for wholefoods seafood departments from store to store. after being a commercial scallop fisherman. I've never tried to fillet a skate... but i'm imagining it and... well, it seems like far too much trouble

I did it once. Pulled two out of the local pond cause they were invasive. Tasted fine beer battered! Filleting wasn't that hard, once you stab through initially then you just make the cut from there.

I had a few plecos as pets. Some of their personality varied from neutral to spicy. I was able to teach them to spin and it would know to come up for treats. I feel like at 12"+ they could be sold as pets instead of just killing them and they are better than importing them from Thailand and other countries.

yeah it doesn't look like you can kill them through normal ethical culling techniques like bashing their heads. And since they wont just start suffocating immediately there isn't really a way to effectively and quickly dispatch them. At least you know they are fresh when they are butchered but it must be hell on the knives and the fish but killing them is literally the only good option for such an invasive species and at least this way their deaths arent im vain? I dunno man. I just cry for those damn knives.

i live in south florida and see them all the time.

What do they taste like?

We eat it on the islands

But we have to be honest that fishing will never eradicate an invasive species. It's a good way to live with the new ecology but when there are fewer fish to catch the fishermen won't go out and track down the last remaining fish, there will always be a remnant and within a few years it will repopulate just like it did the first time. And now the fishermen even have a financial incentive to keep the fish alive, as you can see when he's throwing back the live fish because they're too small so they can grow bigger and reproduce before they're caught.

@@krnpowr all catfishes tastes like swamp as I know

Corydora?? They're so tiny and so cute

@@GreenCanvasInteriorscape search for Hoplosternum littorale, this fish and corydoras are fish from Callichthyidae family

it's situational but I'd second that

When I was a kid I had a pleco and it got about 8 inches long in my tank before I (like a lot of dumb kids do) put it in the local river. Though I lived up north and apparently these things can't survive the winter so no damage done, thankfully.

I have one thats well over 2 foot long.

Yeah I used to work at an aquarium shop. One time a customer returned three of them since they were renovating their pond. The were all three feet long each.

I used to have a massive pleco when i was a kid in my pond but now i got a cute lil bristlenose

Mine doesn’t go to the bathroom much surprisingly. But I also feel like it depends how much algae it is eating and if it’s being fed other food if no algae is in the tank.

It seems like you and the turtle shared the same opinion about the poor ugly bastard

Maybe the assumption it’s an algae eater is part of the problem.

​@@User-rka_zykx76buy the smaller kind its called a Bristlenose and they stay around 6 inches and cute

Sounds like animal torture.

Unfortunately pet stores do little to inform people on how huge the common plecostomus gets, if people want a pleco for their little 20 gallon tank they should be getting a rubberlip or some other small species. Pet stores need to do better at informing buyers

Seen some in an aquarium store that were 2-3 feet long.

@@somerandomperson6511 People need to stop buying from pet stores. Pet stores need to not exist. The whole industry is evil.

Pet stores should stock the bristle nose variant and other smaller species, not the ones that grow to a foot

yep u should only be getting bristlenose plecos they the best

Damn that’s fucked. People commenting all over the world about this fish severely harming their native populations.

@@gregkosinski2303I think it's wild how out of hand things get when humans are introduced into the environment.

​@@gregkosinski2303they taste bad, people wont eat those😅😅😅

​@@unwavering_sightseer7818 The humans were there long before the plekos. The problem was the unregulated aquarium trade and big chain pet stores.

This were very hardy fish, it outlive every fish in my pond and it once was out water for almost half a day, I pick it out and put it back in tge pond and still lived

Hi, do you know the name of that enzyme, or do you have any pointers or link you could share? Thanks in advance

@@sergek1800 I do not. I was an engineer at that company, not the guy in charge of the lab was the one that dealt with it. I just know about it because I was in charge of the design of the equipment used in the new system for this product. But I don't know the exact enzyme he used.

I bought the pezzy devil fish treats after watching this video and i have to say.... my 2 dogs LOVE THEM!!! While i am aware of the process you are referring to i like the fact that strips of dried fish have no other ingredients. We used to get dried chicken breast jerkey for our dogs but now everything is ultraprocessed and many times the protein is sourced from China, which we don't trust

@@blantant True, but the company I worked for is here in the US. They collected the "scrap" meat, bones, blood, feathers, etc from the slaughter houses like Tyson, then processed all of it into either animal feed or fertilizer. Everything that doesn't go to the store goes to this company for processing into other materials. Most of the material went into the organic fertilizer line for golf courses, but the plants near the huge slaughter houses did have lines to run the better quality stuff for cat/dog food ingredients.

​@blantant I raise chickens and give them dried meal worms for extra protein. I was shocked at how many companies are China based. It took me forever to find some made in the USA. It is also difficult to find scratch grains and pellet food made in the US. Big box stores don't care.

Yes, invasive species create a large imbalance, hence the problem.

Maybe Brazil have different water type lol

They are caught in large numbers for the pet shop trade in Brazil.

@@Paul-vf2wl yep, they're used for cleaning fish tanks because they eat all the algae

​@costaht please stop pushing this narrative. It is outdated. Plecos are omnivores. They need more than algae to survive.

Jesus loves you, He died for your sins

Janitor fish

Wanna start a dog treat business together?

@@TroPy1n Instead of dog treats (indonesians don't buy dog treats) should make those salty little dehydrated fish fillets to sprinkle in your ramen.

​@@TroPy1njust sell it as a fish, in Indonesia they sell it in local market, and sometimes the demand is high.

Buy treats for the dog then eat the dog@@gorkyd7912

This fish is usually to clean aquarium none eat them, lele catfish is better

You can't fight an invasive species by catching them with hand nets, that's just some click-bait in the headline. People learn to us them best as they can, that's good

is there even a possibility for them to disappear completely? isn't it good that at least, he's lowering the population that could've gone even more massive and uncontrollable if he didn't fish them?

@@peachbooks3199 : all I know is that his goal is no longer to rid their waters of the fish. it's now a form of profit that he's protecting. it's no longer about stopping an invasive species.

@@NirvanaFan5000 his goal was never getting rid of them. he's one of the fishermen who kept getting devil fish and they had to kill, throw them and suffer losses before. now he found a use instead of just killing it. if hoards of fishermen can't get rid of them, one fishermen was never going to make an entire species go away anyway, it'd need to be an operation on its own

@@peachbooks3199 my impression is that they have more than one fisherman working for them. and with an economic incentive to catch and kill them, they may well be able to fish them till they're gone from the area - but instead, they're now *raising* them. Or consider if they had wanted gov't intervention to get rid of the invasive species - now they're likely to oppose that environmental policy bc they have a profit motive to let the problem continue.

There are certainly worse animals to eat. As I understand in the US, southerners eat possum, raccoon, crawfish, and other animals that many other don’t eat! I love this.

@@reddit-it3414 Creature: "I have developed the defense of being hard to eat" Humans: "I'll find a way to eat you"

you like cajun fried catfish because its drowned in a hundred spices and then deep fried, not because it's good fish. they are by far one of the worst types of fish i've ever had.

It's insane that carps are considered trash fish in USA even though they are eaten worldwide.

@@jaserror some people eat literal mud, doesnt make it good.

straight up

It's not genius..

@@oliveryt7168 - Or, "It's not, ''genius'."

It's actually really really stupid and insane by Einstein's definition. What's the goal here? Irradicating the invasive species or making money? Because those two goals are mutually exclusive and it's been proven MANY times in the past. The second something becomes profitable it will be exploited beyond belief. These fishermen will start spreading these fish everywhere just so they can catch more. Like I said, it's happened many times before and the outcome is always the same.

​@@oliveryt7168so what is it

right, the little botiques you know they probably over charge so much for it lol.

Thank god, people, living in California. aren't stupid. Imagine being a third-world country and not eating fish because of a rumor.

It's a very limited market. They're better off making fertilizer or something mass produced.

@@homes892 are you saying the locals there are stupid? They'd never seen anything like that before and most of them grew up on those waters. I'd be pretty skeptical too

@@vintagethrifter2114 You're not going to eradicate them with targeted commercial fishing. If you successfully reduce the population with commercial fishing that makes it really hard to stay profitable so the fishers leave and the remnants will repopulate in a couple years. You would need probably a multi-step approach where you use commercial fishing to reduce the population, then bounties to get it down even further, and then an actual government agency coming in to destroy any that are left by catching basically every fish and killing any of the pecos that are caught.

Tell your fish I say Hi

Maybe someone should offer to buy the small fry for fertilizer. If there's a predator that will eat the rest of the smaller fish, reducing the population of adults might help it thrive. Then perhaps a more diverse system might return.

@@alkriman4182Yeah, the larger they get, the fewer things eat them, and the more offspring they have. So removing only those over a certain size will definitely help reduce their numbers by a lot! Not more than removing all of them, but it's definitely a start. And once there's fewer plecos in the waterways, they'll probably see an increase in native fish and be able to increase their catch of those again.

Presumably the native fish that supported their economy before would just take the place of plecos and things would be back to normal

Bodo ? What does it mean in English?

@@yuliazni3389 Bodó . the last "o" is tonic. no translation for that.

Just the name of the same fish; not sure of its meaning. Goes by many names "cascudo", "bodo", etc. @@yuliazni3389

This is the comment I was looking for, people should know how to cook this from people living with them naturally...as human always find a way to cook them well ;-)

Those in the Amazon simply throw them straight onto the grill (guts and all in some cases). Some eat the whole thing. I had its cousin the "tamuatá". Absolutely delicious! Plenty of KZfaq shows on people enjoying the bodó :) @@Jorg05111980

Wara Wara means "Smile Smile" or "Laugh Laugh" in Japanese haha, may be the fish flavour makes you smile there?

@alexyounghunlee That is so funny. Yes, words can have a different meaning in another language. Thanks, Alex, for mentioning.

isn't it familliair to,, kwi kwi'' the harnassed fish it's dilicious

@@Manjarow They are of the same group of fishes. These are bigger and have a different mouth. Are you familiar with Suriname? And yes, kwi kwi's are a delicacy for the people in Suriname.

Wara wara or woro woro wich mean announcements or to tell something 🤔

Yeah, very delicious... a sweet flesh when it is cooked East Indian style ... curried.

Mmhm, just google some pictures. Looks tasty

Or the Japanese beetle

Simply chop it up a bit and throw them near ur chickens they'll enjoy it

*That's a great idea "CHICKENS", you just hit on a niche that could be exploited more so than the dog or human trade, go national, get rich!* 🐓🐣🐤🍗🥚💲💲

@@tropocal2343 exactly for a better tasting egg with darker coloured yolk lol can be marketed this way

@@tropocal2343 Yes!! Exactly! There is plenty needs and uses cases for livestock feed this could help with that :D chicken eat everything

Good thing those ugly damned things taste good...

3 feet?! 😮 Are you sure it's a pleco?

So, we have find its Kriptonite 🤣. It makes a lot of sense being a tropical fish.

Exactly if you catch them the last thing you should do is throw them back. Kill them or dispose of them somehow but don't put them back in the waterway

@@nomaderic business is a boomin... Gotta keep the supply going...

@pimpmykek3213 making money at the expense of nature. Guess that's how it's always gonna be. Hopefully i can still take my grandkids bass fishing one day

Easy for you to say, not being a mexican fisherman

Since when has mexico ever cared about anything other than themselves

Yes, big mistake. It's incredibly difficult to get rid of invasive species that out compete natives. So many examples of this in every region. Kill every one that's caught and catch everyone you can. They will still be there and still be a problem for the rest of the habitat. I do support using what you can to be able to at least meet cost while trying to get rid of them. But the primary focus needs to be on eliminating them. I bet placos would make a great leather too. Even though they're small.

Capitalism is better at making more rather than less, that’s why when I hear people complain about animals on the endangered species list I say “put it on a McDonald’s menu and then people will farm them”.

@@mahnamahna3252 Actually that's not really a big problem. The more they stay at one place the more natural predators will come as long as their population isn't growing uncontrollably.

​@@The6thShadowThat's the problem, they said in the video that in the areas they've been found (outside of their native environment) they don't have natural predators, so unless another invasive species is added the only real predators they have are humans...who are not doing what they need to do to eliminate the problem.

@straightjacket3.519 I get you're trying to make a profound statement, but no.

Toads, they're cane toads. I've never heard of folks using something that toxic as fertilizer, but you might be right.

Absolutely. Almost any fish or by-product can be used as a fertilizer.

In a second though, fish flour have been a major protein source for animal nutrition (pet and cattle) since forever, there is another idea.

But they haven't solved their cane toad problem. Human use makes sense, but is never going to make an invasive species go away

​@@eljanrimsa5843they are much reduced, one doesn't see thousands of toad roadkill any more. Ugly things!

Well in 'Merica we call them there sucker fish. And we find them in fish bowls

@johnsmith-ls6tq thanks for the info. They didn't repeat it several times in the video.

I heard that they’re banned in India, Bangladesh now due to this

America Americans dog ki tarah tum log haiwan na ban Jana 😿😾

How is it dangerous??

@@ashtonbull5758 Invasive species are exactly like their name, 'Invaders'. They are usually non native species brought from foreign places usually as pets or displays. This is true for both plants and animals. Depending on the type of invasive species, they will tend to take over the local fauna and flora, as the indigenous ecosystems have never dealt with the invader species before so there may be an absence of natural predators and other causes to keep the invasive population in check. Consequently, that means there will be a Infinite exponential J-curve type population growth which may end up killing the whole ecosystem eventually. Fragile indigenous species and systems that are unique will often suffer the first and very heavily as many of them require specific conditions to their existence and proliferation. Like in a hypothetical ecosystem with only grass, deer and lions that keep each other in check, suddenly introducing elephants that consume a lot of food and have no natural predators will absolutely wreck that ecosystem resulting in maybe the whole ecosystem perishing cascadingly. Because of the low level of checks and policing regarding non endangered animals many exotic animals are kept as pets and sometimes released into the wild when the owner finds it too big of a hassle to take care of them In this particular case, this devil catfish has an unusually high breeding capability and is also omnivorous, meaning it will eat other fish as well as plants and insects. And the fact that they can survive in the worst polluted waters make it a very large threat to the local ecosystem.

@@ashtonbull5758 most of the waterways in India and bangladesh are heavily polluted with factory waste and studies have been done on these fish and they are actually able to survive and absorb heavy metals into their bodies, making the fish effectively toxic for human consumption.

Brazil banned violent video games. That says it all