I have spent some time now trying to get a solid id on this fish I was hoping there might be a helpful catfish guru out there that can help me out so I know exactly what he needs to eat. A few clues about it's preferred foods I have found by trial and error. Likes fish pieces, the Oscars food mess (Hikari cichlid gold), algae/diatoms that grows in the tank as ever since I got him there wasn't a spec anywhere to be found and zucchini. The cat seems to really like the pellets or at least have interest because when I start feeding the O's he gets very curious swimming around the upper levels of the tank in open water broad light. I will tag pictures asap.
UPDATE: turns out I have an L021 or common pleco
Unsure what pleco species, possibly Pseudacanthicus cf. histrix?
Unsure what pleco species, possibly Pseudacanthicus cf. histrix?
Last edited by Brandoncw on 16 Jul 2017, 23:19, edited 1 time in total.
Re: Unsure what pleco species, possibly Pseudacanthicus cf. histrix?
These are the only pics I could get at the moment. It's eye is white and cloudy looking because it's actually completely blind in that eye.
Re: Unsure what pleco species, possibly Pseudacanthicus cf. histrix?
I hope you didn't pay for it as much as histrix costs. It's just a common pterygoplichthys pardalis.
Re: Unsure what pleco species, possibly Pseudacanthicus cf. histrix?
Lol yeah just realised that, it was a free fish that got too large for another's tank so I took him in to the 125g for now, seems pretty comfortable and ammonia nitrite and nitrates are all in check
Re: Unsure what pleco species, possibly Pseudacanthicus cf. histrix?
I pretty new to catfish, so my Id skills are less than perfect, I'll leave it at that, only thing I knew going into this was a daily vacuum is a requirement as these things poop a LOT. Lmao