What Kind of Pleco is this please

[Vicz24, posts: 10]

I bought this little pleco a year ago as an L201 Hypancistrus sp


but looks like this one I have is accually an L201 Hypancistrus sp


The first one was bought from a local breeder & is now full grown at almost 3". The second is just over 3" long & both look to be females.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you.

[krazyGeoff, posts: 645]

The bottom one looks like a male to me.
A pair of L201

[medaka]

Top photograph, to me looks like: -
Hypancistrus contradens

[Vicz24, posts: 10]

They are not the same kind of pleco, as the body shapes are different, the spots on the first one are much larger than the second one & the first one has much darker black body, as where the second sometimes has light patches like in the pic.

If I can get a pic of the top of them I will post it. The first one isn't a Hypancistrus contradens as mine is too small, but I thought that too before I saw what size they grow too. The breeder I got them from, the breeding adults where same size as mine now at under 3 inches.

[jac, posts: 748]

I agree with above. First is a H. Contradens and the second is a L201.

The age and size of a catfish depends on how it's been kept and fed. That it is small now, does not by definition say it is not that species.

[bassgenie, posts: 65]

They look like 2 different Fish to me but, Isnt there a small and large spot Variant of the L-201?