yesterday I bought myself a new pleco (almost two for that matter, but 70 euro's for a 6" Snowball was a bit too much), and I was wondering about its identity. I do have my own ideas, but I'd rather hear some suggestions from you guys too.
The fish is about 5-6" in size, cost me 40 euro's, and has a disposition that really stunned me: I've seen weird, gutsy and aggressive pleco's in the past, but this nutcase takes the cake. At the store he jumped the front tank wall as soon as I got near, putting him in a bag was a huge struggle, and once back home, it took just an hour or so before he started eating, and more importantly, started fighting with my larger L114 and Sultan Pleco. Fear is something that apparantly doesn't feature in his dictionary, because I had to physically restrain him from taking another jab at his tank mates - in most cases pleco's run, but this guy simply rammed my hand, or dodged it to try to continue his fight
So I let them just go on with their business - things like these have to sort themselves out anyways, as it is the nature of the beast. And luckily things seem to have settled down over night, as he and his tank mates all had a nice little hiding place to call home and tried to ignore each other. The frailed fins will heal quickly, I expect...
Anyways, enough anecdote mumbo-jumbo, time for some pictures - and hopefully an answer to the question what species this fierce Pseudacanthicus is:
And a close-up - I suspect it's a boy...
