Thanks Barbie

It's is looking better every day now.

No need to hide behind the heater in here. He actually hangs out in plants on the back glass on the right.


Sorry about the pic quality

Here a run down of the tank Tropical set up with Discus, Tetras, cories and plecos Temp 28-29 pH 6.7 All water parameters are in spec. 150cm x 60 x 70 Rocks, Wood, Sand and a few plants Currently running a Fluval FX5 and a AquaOne Nautilus 2700 This tank has been running for 2 years now. I di approx ...

Has anyone got any idea what this is?
It's some kind of infection, not a wound from banging into something.

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Thanks for the replies guys

I will try yo get a better pic soon

Tail is solid with yellow tips, there is no window or band on tail.

How do you tell them apart?

This is my guy.


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Any ideas on Male or Female? I was thinking female

The Panaque looks like P. schaeferi. This is a very large panaque and there is no way it could have had fry at the current size.

What else is in the tank with them?

These are Trilineatus.

Could be inbreeding I guess?? They all came from the same import.I have 6 in total, only one looks like this

Not sure if this is a pattern variation or if it is another speicies?
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Not the normal RED like in your pic... they are a dull more pale orange i guess.

Bottom Left

Bottom Right

Have you got an pics of them?
We could compare them to these

Ok one male hahaha

Generally male grow long bristles and females don't.
In saying this females may grow a couple around their lip but not going up the nose.

Females aren't Squishy as the squishiness comes from the bristle growth,

Couple of males!

None of them look like our normal L190. The two on the right side of the bucket have very thin and close together stripes, which isn't normal for Panaque nigrolineatus as far as I knew. I will have to wait for them to show themselve to get another pic of the nose to see if it is longer then usual ...

How many do you want? haha

Can never be 100% with an ID. the lines are very close together and thinner on this one.

I love the big gaps inbetween the lines on this guy..... very few lines, I hope he stays this way!

Simply looks to me like the tail has split giving the appearance of a filament. This can happen easily and if it is the dominant plec then quite possible. It should close back up and heal if it is a split.
How long has it been like this for?

Hi Rob

Absolutely amazing Panaques!!!!!

What do you feed them? Do they get any animal protein or strictly vege?

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James

I would say L-260 as the black lines/area is thicker than the white lines.
The L411 tends to have an even size between the black and white

Hey David

What sand is that you have in there?

Goldies are looking good.
Did the colour change much once they were on a light coloured sand?

A. adonis for sure!!

got mine at 10cm and grew very quickly from the moment I got it it would bash the Sailfin that was in there...he was 25cm

How can you tell ?

Thanks for the replies.

I have added another pic. Hope this helps

I have a read few older posts and the cat-e-log but I'm still unsure about this one!

Sorry about the picture quality.



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Didn't think it would be very easy to distinguish between them

Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!

You have the nack my friend!

To go off topic slightly....

How do you tell the difference between L191 Dull eyes and L418 P. titan?

Thats what I was thinking but some of the pics in Cat-elog are a little confusing.

Which Panaque would you say had the greenish colour (not L191)?

http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/viewto ... 23&t=57849

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