she looks a lot like our plec: Twinkle I posted on this forum asking for an ID and it appears she is a standard Ancistrus, not a starlight which we originally thought. (Link to that thread: http://forum.planetcatfish.com/viewtopic.php?p=35017#35017 ) Ours also gets these white patches occasionally ...

Hmm yes I think she may be just that

http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/lo ... i/31_3.php

The LDA33 is also known as the Snowball Baryancistrus too?

Does anyone have more information on these plecs, ie size, preferred food etc?

Thanks for your help!

Pictures of Nieve:

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Not Great Quality because they are quick clips from the Video I made, hope you can see enough.

We have recently bought 2 Plecos from a LFS. They were labelled up as a Starlight Pleco , which we called Twinkle, and a Snow Ball Pleco called Nieve. After looking through this site and particularly the L/LDA resource section we are a little unsure about exactly what we have. Im pretty sure we ...