July 7, 201412 yr comment_552268 Hi Anyone know the L number or specific species of this pleco? Bought off TM for 35 so figured it wasn't a bad deal either way http://imgur.com/a/0dmej Photos are iPad quality but haven't been able to find him since so thats all I've got sorry Report
July 7, 201412 yr comment_552271 Nice fish and a good price. Its a Hypancistrus: either a chocolate zebra (L270) or a Columbian zebra (Hypancistrus debilittera, L129). I would say its a L270 but Geoff is better at telling these two apart. Report
July 8, 201412 yr Author comment_552305 Thanks for that - I had been thinking it looked like a 270 but don't have enough experience to really be sure. Whats the going price for one of those normally then? Report
July 8, 201412 yr comment_552333 L270 - chocolate zebra. There are a couple of ways to tell. A L129 is always a brown fish with yellow ish - white ish fine lines. A L270 could be a white ish - yellow ish fish with irregular brown patterns, or a brown fish with white ish - yellow ish mostly regular lines. The other way is to see if you could reasonably draw the lines thinner. Or you can wait 8 - 12 months and the L270 will be 6-8 cm and dark brown, the L129 will be 4-5 cm and light brown. The following two fish are about the same size and colour. side by side it is pretty obvious what I mean http://www.planetcatfish.com/common/image.php?species=hypancistrus_sp(l270)&image_id=3205 http://www.planetcatfish.com/common/image.php?species=hypancistrus_debilittera&image_id=2989 Report
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