What Is This Cutie?
Posted: 27 Mar 2009, 01:41
I discovered PlanetCatfish about a month ago, and have been voraciously reading the wonderful content ever since. I'm about to set up a new aquarium, and want to find a Plec that will be a good match for it (the new tank will be a 30 USGAL/110 liter community tank, and my intent is to go with a soft, moderately acidic, blackwater environment; and I may try going planted)... so the site has been extremely helpful as I search for a smallish Plec that will like that environment.
But it's time for my first post, and of course, it's a question!
I recently spotted some very attractive little Plecs at a LFS, and I'm not at all confident that they have them identified correctly, not to mention that I don't trust much of their information at all.
The store lists them as "Yellow-spotted Plecos, Scobiancistrus L82", but they don't match what I've found in the Cat-elog under either L82 or Scobiancistrus. They're pretty small (but I think that they're young), at about 2 inches/5 cm total length. Not much else I can tell you about them, other than that they seem to like shade, and are usually hanging out on or near driftwood in their display aquarium (by the way: they don't seem to be munching on the wood). I'm sorry, but I've never gotten a good look at their mouths, let alone gotten a picture of them; and I had no luck catching them with their fins unfurled, either.
So here are a couple of pix of the little critters:


Any ideas? Thanks in advance!
But it's time for my first post, and of course, it's a question!
I recently spotted some very attractive little Plecs at a LFS, and I'm not at all confident that they have them identified correctly, not to mention that I don't trust much of their information at all.
The store lists them as "Yellow-spotted Plecos, Scobiancistrus L82", but they don't match what I've found in the Cat-elog under either L82 or Scobiancistrus. They're pretty small (but I think that they're young), at about 2 inches/5 cm total length. Not much else I can tell you about them, other than that they seem to like shade, and are usually hanging out on or near driftwood in their display aquarium (by the way: they don't seem to be munching on the wood). I'm sorry, but I've never gotten a good look at their mouths, let alone gotten a picture of them; and I had no luck catching them with their fins unfurled, either.
So here are a couple of pix of the little critters:


Any ideas? Thanks in advance!