Can anyone confirm that this is a chocolate pleco?

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Paladindjinn
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Can anyone confirm that this is a chocolate pleco?

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he seems to be but, when i was looking at the ca elog it didn't quite look like the ones pictured.
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Post by Silurus »

It's an albino
Liposarcus pardalis
, which are sometimes sold as chocolate plecos (the real chocolate pleco is
Glyptoperichthys scrophus
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Post by Paladindjinn »

Thanks.
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