Which number / name

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Which number / name

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Someone offered me the fishes below. Does someone know what is the name of this fish, and is it really a wild specimen?

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Post by Silurus »

It's the long finned (=not wild) form of
Ancistrus sp(3)
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Post by Dave Rinaldo »

Ancistrus sp(3)

Several man made variants exist: piebald, albino and long-fin (veiltail) varieties have been bred in a captivity.
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