Suckermouth wrote:It's a common pleco.

Common plecos can have parentage of either Pterygoplichthys pardalis or Pterygoplichthys disjunctivus. This causes their spotting pattern to be somewhat variable so they don't all look the same.

would it make a difference in size?

It's true that it's strange that it hasn't grown more, but that doesn't make it not a common pleco ;)

Fish can become stunted for many different reasons.

I will say that the fish is in a 75G tank with a definite Bristlenose :)
And has not grown in 6 months, is about 4" long as stated. No ...

racoll wrote:

In my opinion no way does it look like a common pleco.

What makes you say it's not a common pleco?

If it was a common, how could it have stayed the exact same size for 6 months?

Was sold to me as a common bristlenose, and I KNOW its not that

You're right, definitely not a Bristlenose. If I were you I would bump up this thread during the weekend when there's more people on this forum that can help you, you're not going to get much people replying now. Will do! and Ill ...

Was sold to me as a common bristlenose, and I KNOW its not that

Hi, so I posted on a tropical forum trying to identify my pleco, But It seems mine has "some" traits of a few different kinds of plec. And nobody seems to know if it could somehow be a cross of more than one kind.

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