BN SP 1 ?

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robby1619
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BN SP 1 ?

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Is this a BN SP1?..iam not sure so i hope you guys can confirm if iam right or wrong.
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MatsP
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I can't confirm for sure. Do you by any chance have any data on where it came from for example? (Country of origin is a start, a river in that country would be even better).

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I belive South America..not 100% sure
The body shape is pretty close to the LDA72 or?
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Joined: 06 Oct 2004, 13:58
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My cats species list: 117 (i:33, k:0)
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My BLogs: 4 (i:0, p:97)
Spotted: 187
Location 1: North of Cambridge
Location 2: England.

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robby1619 wrote:I belive South America..not 100% sure
The body shape is pretty close to the LDA72 or?
I can say for sure that, unless the fish was captive bred, it's from South America (ok, we have to "stretch" the geographic definition a little bit a tiny bit north of the Panama Canal), as all Loricariidae, and thus Ancistrus, are definitely only native in this slightly stretched definition of South America.

(LDA72)[1] is not exactly a unique body shape. Most of the Ancistrus have a similar body-shape to this.


[1] I prefer to use the proper scientific name for fish that has such.

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