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Identifying my catfish / pleco


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Hi,

Can anyone give me an accurate description of the snowflake catfish?

I have two catfish, which i was thinking were bristlenose, but from the pics I've seen, the patternation looks different.

I will try and post a pic when they sit still long enough for me to shoot them.

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Ok so my catfish has a dark skin, with white spots all over. The spots on their heads are smaller than the ones on the rest of their bodies.

Their fins and sails are striped. Across their backs they have a pale patch, which i liken to wings almost.

One has bristles on the nose, which I'm assuming is the male, the other doesn't. They are about 5-6 cm's long.

I've tried getting photo's, but they are so active and rarely sit still long enough.

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maybe a red spotted pleco,

when i had one it used to be black with white spots when it was sleeping then when it was feeding it would be pale with black splotches , pretty cool, otherwise it is prob a bristlenose but the dont have spots. the redspot's have a couple of bristles on their nose i think....

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Have yet to see a redspot with bristles. Snowflake BNs are extremely rare and unless you bought it from an importer or directly from a breeder it's 99% likely to just be a nicely patterned BN. You'll see when you come over on Thursday. I don't have any snowflakes, but many colour variants of BNs.

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