correct name on this please?

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.

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

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!

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

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.

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

wow very nice!!! maybe you have found a new strain of pleco, the livingartus girrafus ancistrus :lol: :lol: :lol:

if i follow a certain train of thought it will be callitwhatiwanticus togetthebestpriceicus

hahahaha yea thats the one