Cool little fish, but he is specie-less!

cakey87 · Post by **cakey87** » 21 Mar 2006, 12:08

Hi again!
When I got this little dude, I was told be the guys on AquaHobby to come over here and you might be able to help me ID it and tell me what particular species I have. It would be great if you could tell me if I have a male or female too.
I've tried my best to get some shots, let me know if they're not good enough and I will attempt again!

It's not very big at the moment, a few cms long.
I asked the fish shop for a Bristlenose Pleco, the ones that don't grow really big- but then I later found out that this is actually called a Bristlenose Catfish. However when I asked the people on Aquahobby they told me to pop over here and ask you.

Thank you in advance,
Casey

Kana3 · Post by **Kana3** » 21 Mar 2006, 12:23

I'd say it may be one of the Ancistrus Sp. But I'm not practiced enough yet to take it further.

It looks very young. Lack of bristles may indicate a female, but I doubt it's old enough yet to sex. Although I think Mats knows some details on head shape, from memory. What's it's length?

Post by **Silurus** » 21 Mar 2006, 12:35

http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/lo ... u/49_F.PHP

cakey87 · Post by **cakey87** » 21 Mar 2006, 12:41

He would be about 3.5cm

Casey

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 21 Mar 2006, 17:28

It's certainly like Silurus says, and the size means that it's almost impossible to say what it is. If you had it in a tankfull of it's brothers/sisters, then you could have a rough guess on getting a matching for it [of course, that would be a bad breeding practice to breed two siblings with each other].

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Mats