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I didn't say that Silurus is wrong on the ID.Most likely he knows about plecos 1000times more than me
Is just that i have 3 other sites that says it might be another pleco.
I really think it's a nicely patterned "normal pleco" (well, they're not the normal around here, that is Hypostomus plecostomus/ H. punctatus). Here's a not-so-good pic of my Pseudacanthicus leopardus "Roraima", LDA-07:
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In G joselimaianus the red pattern is made of spots and blobs that aren't 'connected'; in a gibbiceps it's a lacy network overlaying the brown color and in a 'common' pardalis it's a wriggly pattern mixed with the brown wich is also a wriggly pattern.
I think HH is smack on the money here.
Jools wrote:
The poster isn't the same - read the posts - and the last post from Daniel shows a different fish for no apparent reason?
I think Daniels is showing a pic of what generally is referred to as a "Leopard pl*co" and how it's different from the pic robby is showing.
Yes... That's the reason. I wanted to show the fish usually called "leopard pleco". I think I should have writen it on my first post to make it clear...
Okey guys here are some pics of him.
I had to remove everything in my tank to get this guy ,but then i did some gravel cleaning and so on since i had to take out everything from the tank.
No screaming if iam holding the pleco wrong..i have never hold a pleco in my life ..just wanted to show you the pleco so as to get the id correct this time.
I hope this is okey because iam not taken everything out of the tank again
robby1619 wrote:I think Pureplecs has found the Answer!!
Thank you
Pureplecs,
How do you tell the difference between G. lituratus and G. parnaibae?
AFAIK, the pictured fish is similar to several species (mentioned above). I mean, we don't even know where the fish came from.
Jools, it was more of a question than an answer. And of course you are absolutely correct in your statement of simularity to different sp. and unknown location.
I said...
Could it be simular.... to the parnaibae???
But to answer your question of me, I would say that some differences would have to lie in the dorsal and caudal patterning (which we haven't gotten a realy good look at in Robby's pics) as well as the variation of patterning on the body on the lituratus which appears some have clear patterning in some more than others (perhaps stress could be the factor). Furthermore the lituratus seems to have a different dorsal shape.
Robby, If you could get some side pictures of the dorsal (per Silurus) and caudal it may be helpful.
I really think some info on the collecting site could help us here... Especially when we realize that G. parnaibae is a not-so-common species in the hobby. Both specimens I had, including the one pictured now in cat e-log, were wild-caught in the ParnaÃba River Basin.