just seen a post on a pleco group on fb .. a user has claimed there albino bristlenose has bred with a bulldog pleco .. i have said highly unlikely but they adament its happened ..can someone clarify this is or isnt possible i belive it NOT to be possible and a little explanation why not so can ...

Ancistrus cf_cirrhosus Birger thats just bristlenoses/morphs .. nothing even close to this Green Dragon is a colour form of the common bristlenose, so Birger's suggestion above is not at odds with what others have told you - same species, different wrapper. ok.. fair do's... but anyone know where ...

Birger wrote:

Ancistrus cf_cirrhosus

Birger

thats just bristlenoses/morphs .. nothing even close to this

Greendragon is the i.d i been given several times but as say no-one is 100% ... anyone know latin/ species name so i can do some huntin on that species myself

rcbows wrote:Could it be a female Ancistrus ranunculus, just green from the "second hand water in the tank"!

Ron

Lol it been in my tank a good 6-7 months and its still greenish .. def not green from 2nd hand water

Found this pleco in a 2ndhand tank ... I know its a bristlnose of some kind but is not 'the common brown ' picture dont really do justices its infact dark green/brown .. .. have taken it to a few importers and few trusted breeders of various plecos ... most are stumped and a few have come up with a ...