Thank you both @bekateen @Shane
I've passed this info along to my friend. He's hoping it is one of the "smaller" of the hypostomus at the very least, no larger than 12" but he's moved it to his 110g

Asking on behalf of a friend of mine.

They were sorting through plecos from their tanks and turned up something they did not buy, they think it was from another person who sold it to them as an ancistrus sp, which it is most definitely not ancistrus.

Anywho, been asked my thoughts and closest I ...

Here's a more recent baby pic if that helps at all

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Now that looks very much like my fish, except that it's what my ADULT fish look like, and even after all these months, my adults are still only 5-6cm SL. And my fish, juvies and adults, are distinctly green irridescent ...

bekateen wrote: 05 Jan 2024, 20:15 Very nice. Thanks for sharing. Too bad more people don't breed Brochis.

Cheers,
Eric

It's a shame, they're really lovely fish. Easily my 3rd favourite "cory" species to keep!

Looking them here at their localities, rio mamore is one that pops up.

They don't show in the video, but this is underwater footage of part of rio mamore
https://youtu.be/GmhkA7GmH5s?si=UpQD1oZZyPs2p93f

Perhaps this could help?

I made a collage for the growth stages of the brochis youngsters

I do know this location does deal with *some* wild caught fish. Such as their chaetostoma, panaqolus, and oddball corydoras (I've found weitzmani, c102, and others among their fish, plus ceratogarra cambodgiensis which is another wild caught oddball). So I don't know, it very well could have came ...

Nice. That said, it's nearly impossible to know what shows up at a Petsmart or Petco, since they have such poor documentation of what they're getting.

Assuming the store isn't ordering wild-caught fish, this could just be some mutt of a common BN. On the other hand, is this fish matures at about ...

Did not buy it because my quarantine tank is full up and no more room in my tanks for more plecos, but he's an unusual fish. Can guess this is not a domestic? It is being sold as a domestic however.

It did not want it's photo taken or want to be seen, it wanted to hide away, so this is the only ...

Which going back to triradiatus page, counting dorsal and caudal rays on the pictures there, the female lines up with the exact same count as those fish as well.

"However, her spots are rather bold for triradiatus, no? These are present on dark wood or light sand, shes always got bright white spots"

You can tell best as you can see the actual live fish. They have bred so many mutant "common bristle noses" now that color\pattern alone my not be enough to ...

Male looks typical. Check your female against A. triradiatus.
-Shane

See how well I can identify ancistrus, I thought the female was the normal one haha...

Ya know, size wise that'd make sense. She's a little lady. I just figured she was just small lol


However, her spots are rather bold for ...

So I thought both were domestics, I got from separate sources at different times. Both from local owners, not from stores. Just generically called bristlenose plecos, so I assumed the usual cf cirrhosis as is usually the case.

Comparing them to one another, the male is massive in size compared to ...

Little guy came out with the lights on. Shocked. I thought I'd never see him again after releasing him into the blackwater tank.

bekateen wrote: 06 Dec 2023, 01:57 Looks like a baby

Synodontis eupterus

to me.

Cheers,
Eric

Thanks, I worried it may have been. Now to break the news to them that their 20g isn't gonna cut it

Not mine, asking for someone else.
They were told it was called a "marble line" syno

I want to think nigriventris, but I'm not well versed on synodontis

Little guy, actually girl, has grown a smidge since I brought her home and has offered a full open tail view and I was able to count 10 caudal rays, which now rules out minerim.

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And a photo of her ...

Recently raised up some brochis splendens fry, rather handsome little guys

They were a community spawn leaving me wondering if it were my corydoras eques, corydoras loxozonus, or brochis splendens and I did not know until the fry began growing a larger dorsal fin than normal corydoras fry ...

Fry photos would be really fantastic.

And mouth closeups of all of them too would be another great option since my understanding is the mouth shape varies among species too.


Man, I wish I had more info from the supplier. The lfs just labeled them cucuta pleco and that was that. Owner netting me ...

Interestingly the male has grown an inch since I got them.

The fry are still showing a red tone, but interestingly so does the female when on substrate!

Male, female, and one of the fry
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Is there possibility ...

Fantastic, thank you, so assuming my guesses are probably correct. Giving it a few weeks before they're put together. I had to cull a tank due to medication resistant disease, so I'm super paranoid of that all over again, so they're in a quarantine tote. The 3 new ones are together, but not my ...

And fish 3, I want to guess female.

Fish 2 I am fairly certain is male, this one shows fin extensions

Fish 1. I am going to guess female?

@bekateen @shane

Took them out for photos of their upper lips. I will do each individual as it's own reply for easier organization. If you can label who's what would be great.

However, I'd like to confirm for sure if original fish is male or female (think it was said probably male before)

This is ...

It is not related to size. Any sexually mature male will develop the lip and extended pelvic fins if they are healthy and females are present.
-Shane


Going by that, would you say the original fish is male or female? Lacks the fin extensions but lip looks more swollen than the younger batch.

I ...

Shane wrote: 23 Nov 2023, 12:52 Note swollen lip of sexually active male.
-Shane

The pale rim to the lip, yes?

Around what size would this be most apparent?

Shane wrote: 23 Nov 2023, 12:43 I think these will turn out to be L 448. At that size P. maccus have very distinct lines or stripes on their head.
-Shane

Sweet! I suspect once he's introduced to the main tank I won't see him much anymore lol will get lost amongst all the wood

And with the new Chaetostoma, there's also a panaqolus included, I think is probably maccus but many look the same to me in this genus lol

Little young fish, but cute. Can see, still only 2-2.5"SL in size.

The page for the species on these claim they can be sexed using the pelvic fins, stating males have extended points?

Yes this is true. If you're fish are mature, I see only one fish with extended pelvic fins, although the difference is not dramatic in your fish (maybe not fully mature, or maybe ...