livingart Posted February 10, 2010 Report Share Posted February 10, 2010 correct name on this please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flatfish Posted February 10, 2010 Report Share Posted February 10, 2010 Beautiful looking pleco livingart. I'd say its a sailfin pleco (Pterygoplichthys spp). The patterning is unusual in that it lacks the honeycombed patterning (ie. a light coloured pleco with dark spots separated by a thin margin, goldspot plecos are a dark coloured species with light spots) over much of the body, except for the lower part of the tail. This patterning is typical of a redspot pleco or the more slender common plecos (mainly P. pardalis, but also possibly P. disjunctivus or P. multiradiatus). I'd say its probably an unusually coloured red spot pleco, P. gibbiceps. Given the numbers of "common plecos (Pterygoplichthys spp.)" breed in fish ponds overseas its highly likely that 'sports' would turn up and be breed from, or possibly its a hybrid. Regardless its a great looking fish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted February 10, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2010 a lady dropped it off the other day as it was rooting up the plants in her tank i thought gibbiceps but hadn't seen that colouration before thanks for the reply Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skippy_49nz Posted February 10, 2010 Report Share Posted February 10, 2010 Gibby was my first thought, but hey, if you sell it, get greative and call it a giraffe pleco and slap a $200 pricetag on it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted February 10, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2010 Gibby was my first thought, but hey, if you sell it, get greative and call it a giraffe pleco and slap a $200 pricetag on it! oooh i like the giraffe plec concept Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted February 10, 2010 Report Share Posted February 10, 2010 I would say red spot too, but man... look at those colours! haven't quite seen any one like it with that golden colour to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted February 10, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2010 yep threw me out with the colour she had bruyed it as a very small one said it was prettier than the rest she had it on darker gravel, when it arrived in a blue ice cream container it was still the same colour Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxdarnixx Posted February 11, 2010 Report Share Posted February 11, 2010 wow very nice!!! maybe you have found a new strain of pleco, the livingartus girrafus ancistrus :lol: :lol: :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted February 11, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2010 if i follow a certain train of thought it will be callitwhatiwanticus togetthebestpriceicus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxdarnixx Posted February 11, 2010 Report Share Posted February 11, 2010 hahahaha yea thats the one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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