hello

[L.BelcherII]

I've lurked here off and on for awhile. Figured I'd join officially and say hello.

I currently have two four-line catfish, a L18 and a Albino Chocolate? pl*co. All residing in my 150 gallon tank.

[MatsP]

Welcome to Planet Catfish.

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Mats

[loachy_406]

Welcome to PlanetCatfish.

Do you know exactly which catfish you have, common names can be very misleading. Are your 'four-line catfish'

Pimelodus blochii

or are they completely different? L18 is fairly self explanatory except if it's

Baryancistrus sp(l081)

or

Baryancistrus sp(l177)

Chocolate pl*co could be almost anything, seeing as basically all pl*cos are brown in colouration for the most part. In the Cat-eLog 'Chocolate pl*co' came up with

Pterygoplichthys scrophus

- is this what you have?
Edit: IDing albinos is always difficult as the only way is from body shape. But there aren't many commonly found albino pl*cos, so it's probably a BN.

[MatsP]

I think the "Albino choc pleco" is

Pterygoplichthys pardalis

in albino form. The picture of it isn't a very good one. There's also an albino form of P. gibbiceps for example, and yes, they are hard to identify - knowing who the parents are would perhaps also help.

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Mats

[loachy_406]

I most probably stand corrected.

Click on me!

Heehee! I've conquered two linking problems today!

[loachy_406]

And P. gibbiceps...

[L.BelcherII]

They are definitely Pimelodus blochii, the L18 was sold to me by someone who's ID I trust, and god only knows what the albino chocolate is. I'll try and get some pics up ASAP for you.

[loachy_406]

Also pics of the whole tank tend to be quite popular on this site.