ID please

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Post by hotplecogirl »

He is about 4 inches and has grown very slow.
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That plec looks a dead ringer for a Gibbicep (Pterygoplichthys gibbiceps). In fact it's almost a spitting image of my own Gibbicep.

Maybe I'm wrong though :-O
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Post by husky_jim »

racoll wrote:Looks like .
I second that!
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husky_jim wrote:
racoll wrote:Looks like .
I second that!
thank you,that him.
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