Sold to me as "Redfin Uruguay Pleco"

[pantera]

Now what is it really?? Any help would be much appreciated...




Thanks Pan

[racoll]

Certainly a

Hypostomus

spp. Have a trawl through the Cat-eLog to see what matches.

I assume it wasn't really sourced from Uruguay?

[pantera]

I purchased it at a small local pet shop. So the source would be hard to trace back. I was very red in the tank in the store especially the tail.

[Bas Pels]

I once caught very similar looking plecos in the Arroyo Sarandi, 50 km east of Uruguay. Thus it is possible they are from Uruguay, but dfue to the fact hardly any fishes are commercially shipoped from Uruguay not likely.

Still the Rio Uruguay devides Uruguay from Argentina, and from Argentina more fishes are shipped

From this Arroyo (Spanish for small river) a bleuish grey pleco @ ~40 was also found, I can not say the same speciers or not, butr we did not find any other plecos. Therefore you should keep in mind they might grow BIG

[pantera]

I think it might be a

Hypostomus commersoni

Photo 5 of 5 is identical to the fish in question.

What do you guys think?

Thanks Pan

[FISHNUTS]

There is a wholesaler here selling his Redfin Uruguay plecos as Hypostomus Laplatae.

I am just north of you in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Sl