description challange

magnum4 · Post by **magnum4** » 04 Nov 2003, 22:29

This is a little challange, is a description i was given regarding a pleco a friend had seen in a shop and wondered if i was interested in purchasing however it took me so long to work out what i think he had described, it had been sold

what would you all make of this description...

"when it was stuck on the front glass it made the shape of a cross"

plesner · Post by **plesner** » 04 Nov 2003, 23:49

My first thought was Hara jerdoni, but they're not plecos and they don't really stick to the front glass, but maybe the description wasn't given by someone even remotely knowledgable as far as catfish are concerned. At least those I had years ago looked very much like small crosses when they were swimming around in the tank.

S. Allen · Post by **S. Allen** » 04 Nov 2003, 23:56

heh, well the pectorals might make any pleco look like a cross... umm.. no other info it'd be an impossible guess..

Post by **Silurus** » 05 Nov 2003, 00:35

Lamontichthys?
(My stab at it)

magnum4 · Post by **magnum4** » 05 Nov 2003, 18:12

Lamontichthys filomentosus

that was my guess too.

but maybe the description wasn't given by someone even remotely knowledgable as far as catfish are concerned.

good point i never thought of that.