It is ~5 years old and about 8 inches long. Other than photograpic evidence I know very little about the beast.
Looking a gift fish in the mouth
Looking a gift fish in the mouth
I was given this fish with the tank and told it is not a common pleco.
It is ~5 years old and about 8 inches long. Other than photograpic evidence I know very little about the beast.
It is ~5 years old and about 8 inches long. Other than photograpic evidence I know very little about the beast.
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I'd call that a Hypostomus - whether it's a "common" H. Plecostomus or one of the other 40-50 different species that are brown with darker spots is harder to say, as there are many different species that look almost the same. If we knew what the capture location was, it would make life a whole lot easier.
It doesn't help much that it's in stress-colouration.
It's not a "modern" common pleco, but it would have been common some 10 or so years ago.
Feed it plenty of vegetable foods and it will be happy.
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Mats
It doesn't help much that it's in stress-colouration.
It's not a "modern" common pleco, but it would have been common some 10 or so years ago.
Feed it plenty of vegetable foods and it will be happy.
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Mats
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It looks fairly close to this,
http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/lo ... m/87_1.PHP
but these fish can be very hard to identify as Mats pointed out.
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http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/lo ... m/87_1.PHP
but these fish can be very hard to identify as Mats pointed out.
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Ok, thanks. I wasn't even sure what to try to feed it, which could be part of its stress source.
The lady told me she paid a pretty penny for the fish. I'm not totally sure how much that means for her, but she had been into large cichlids and one of the other fish in the tank is a chocolate cichlid. Given that I have only found two people out of the members at Aquariacentral and Aquamojo's forum that have this cichlid would lead me to belive chocolate cichlids arn't inexpensive either.
Her comment made me to believe that she paid more for the pleco than she had for most of her previous individual fish.
I can't say I was impressed with her as a person so I'm not going back to try to get more information.
The lady told me she paid a pretty penny for the fish. I'm not totally sure how much that means for her, but she had been into large cichlids and one of the other fish in the tank is a chocolate cichlid. Given that I have only found two people out of the members at Aquariacentral and Aquamojo's forum that have this cichlid would lead me to belive chocolate cichlids arn't inexpensive either.
Her comment made me to believe that she paid more for the pleco than she had for most of her previous individual fish.
I can't say I was impressed with her as a person so I'm not going back to try to get more information.
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Hi!
Not sure when or where she bought these fishes but calling them "expensive" she has either a small budget or got ripped off.
Not sure how much the Hypostomus cost in the older days but now these fish dont cost more than 1-1.5 euro/cm here.
For the sicklid I found this on a stocklist
Hypselecara coryphaenoides/temporalis (Chocolate Cichlid) $15.95
I would guess they are so rarely kept because MidAmerican sicklids arent the friendliest fishes around and arent kept by community tank people. Most folks dont want to reserve a 300 liter tank für a pair of fish...
Not sure when or where she bought these fishes but calling them "expensive" she has either a small budget or got ripped off.
Not sure how much the Hypostomus cost in the older days but now these fish dont cost more than 1-1.5 euro/cm here.
For the sicklid I found this on a stocklist
Hypselecara coryphaenoides/temporalis (Chocolate Cichlid) $15.95
I would guess they are so rarely kept because MidAmerican sicklids arent the friendliest fishes around and arent kept by community tank people. Most folks dont want to reserve a 300 liter tank für a pair of fish...
cheers
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Sizes
What are some of the sizes different species of Hypostomus get? I would like to know the size of the smallest species to the largest (and any average sizes in between). I have a similar looking pleco (see "Unidentified Pleco" topic) and want to know the range of what size he may get. Also, does anyone know of a site where I can see pictures of all or most of the Hypostomus species so I can try to identify my pleco. I want to try to see if he is the kind that gets 20 inches long (I hope not 
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Many pictures
I have checked the Cat e-log but some fish don't have much information and a few don't have pictures. It also takes a long time if you don't know the name of the pleco and have to flip through all the species. It is not too important for me to find out what pleco I have because he doesn't grow very quickly and he has a lot of room in my 50 gallon even if he does get a foot long.