In light of my abysmal failure with the gouramis, I've gone out and got 2 bronze cories, and 1 red-spot pleco... Hopefully these guys will last longer!!!

The bronze cories are already swimming around with the peppered catfish I have, and generally making asses of themselves! :lol:

The red-spot pleco is busy trying to make his own territory, as he seems to spend a lot of time swimming away from the bristlenoses lol

Remind us how big the tank is please. Do you know those plecs grow quite large?

yeah, I know about plecs getting big, but he's in a 4' tank... should be fine

I'm actually having trouble finding any info about a red-spot plec... I've found a red-spot bristlenose though... one & the same???

They come in under all sorts of names. The sailfin plec is the most common here I think. Any information on plecostomus in general would do

The latin name is hypostamus gibbiceps or something like that. I'm sure about the gibbiceps. Took me ages to figure it out. The rest of the world calls them sailfin plecos or gibbiceps plecos.

lol I'm getting to the point where I wish everyone would refer to fish by their Latin names, instead of the 'common' names which seem to change depending on where you are!!!

Ira said...

> The latin name is hypostamus gibbiceps or something like that.

Try Pterygoplichthys gibbiceps, as in:

http://www.plantedtank.net/sailfinpleco.html

http://www.aquahobby.com/gallery/gpterigo.html

To make matters worse (and even more unpronounceable) also

try Glyptoperichthys gibbiceps...

There's all sorts of good info on pl*cos at:

http://www.plecos.com/plecos/art_robert_fenner.php

Aqua said...

> ... I wish everyone would refer to fish by their Latin names,

> instead of the 'common' names which seem to change

> depending on where you are!!!

It's not a bad habit to get into, especially if you're talking to

people overseas.

Andrew.