There is no way these fish are 3-4", look at the size of your fingers. Unless you are a giant, your measurements are WAAAY off. Not to mention one has yellow hues, i would think you might have 2 species.

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My thought is your ID is off.

But he didn't ask about your tank, he asked about the pond?

You should have no issues breeding just about any hypan in a 35 gallon tank. I have seen it with hypans and ancistrus breeding int he same tank, but if you truly are looking to breed, it should be a species only tank.

Soo cool. I want some!

dw1305 wrote: ↑04 Oct 2017, 11:54 then one of the smaller

Ancistrus

spp. might be another option.

I would aim this route if the oto's dont work well enough. I had a 33 gallon XL (48"x12"x12") full of algae on the glass. I added 6 baby common bristlenose and it was clean in a day or two.

I was thinking it was based on that pic.

It's grown 2" in length in a month?

All of your fish are beautiful. I hope to get into them once I settle in and get some bigger tanks all set up.

Eric for the touchdown!

that was my guess too

Where is the L56Y? If you are referring to the yellow fish in the second post, your ID is off. It should be

It looks a lot like what used to be sold as L270?

ahhh okay, that makes sense.. it just looked like an eel tail in each picture so I was curious

Curious then, what is the circled thing in the picture attached?

bad question, but is it possible that the picture in the catelog had a fin snip taken, making the tail a deeper fork than it really was? I know nothing about fin snip sample things.

Is there an eel in their tank?

Based on the initial photos and the first photo of the catelog, this overall look fits

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bekateen wrote: ↑14 Aug 2017, 09:05 perhaps

Peckoltia brevis

... Just a guess

That is my guess as well.

Not to mention the genus this fish falls into has a TON of brown plecos in it. I'm by no means trying to be disrespectful, but I am more willing to help if someone is willing to help back. We requested a little more information to try to narrow it down and then we can start giving ideas. If you can ...

Yeah, the OP should have at least listed the country of origin.. I dont think anyone will know the location if you said "peru" or "Brazil" or " My backyard"

I have my moments lol.. i didn't even see the 006 in the tube .

okay, thanks Daniel for helping me. I hope we do find a nice number and eventually a scientific name for them, they are nice looking. btw, that is the weirdest L006 Peckoltia oligospila i have ever seen. Edit: OH.. i see the 006 now, lmao i thought you meant the dark one with the nice orange edge ...

It's too flat, and also you can see where the bristles will grow around the head. Jools will grow, meaning at 9" it has yet to grow bristles? So we should be looking at ancistrus as they are the bristlenoses, and can be relatively flat. What about a Ancistrus sp(l071) .. not the right distribution ...

Why couldn't it be a ?

Without looking up L#'s, this fish looks awfully similar to many already out there? Is there a reason why this is a different species, or, could it be it was now found in another part of the amazon?

Odd that they would deliberately introduced a non-native generalist carnivore. Not really. Many state's fish and wildlife departments will set up control locations to check the viability of non-native species, such as the red-tail cat, to see if they can survive winters. Did you know there is ...

my guess is without the tail its no more than 2"