I saw that on Imperial Tropicals too, and may get some myself out of curiosity. So that's what they looked like? How do they look, now that they've settled in for a while?

BTW, they have more info on an eBay listing w/same pic. They call it 'Hypostomus Laplatae'

"You will receive captive bred Red ...

I've been lurking, trying to learn more about them myself. It'd be awesome to see some pics & lengths of ones with known ages. Everything I've seen so far, is wild caught of unknown age (only identified by color phase).
I do know pier aquatics, and a bunch of Florida USA places were selling them ...

My young (<1") L144 had something similar. all the slow growing runts were much paler (some completely white) than the healthy quicker growing ones. I started feeding them daily, as much as they could eat in a day, and they started growing quicker & eventually got some color back.

this was in an ...

At first, I thought it was Ich that accidentally spread from my Girlfriend's tank mishap. but it's tinted orange, and the spots got a bit bigger than Ich, and after a salt dip (1tbsp/gal), they multiplied worse. oh, and it's only severely affecting the inbred (L144, calico bristlenose) Ancistrus in ...