I came home tonight to one big dead Pleco. That’s right, my big centerpiece fish is no more. I’ll never know if he died of natural causes or if the fish that was nipping his fins actually killed him. If I knew the fin nipper was to blame I'd feed him to the Cichlids, but the lack of visible trauma makes this uncertain. It wasn't old age as they can live up to 20 years. He was pushing four years old. I was proud of him. He was huge and beautiful. The fin nipper will now be isolated and I am sad.