royal with odd pattern

Pooks73 · Post by **Pooks73** » 06 Jun 2003, 04:23

anyone ever seen a spotted royal before? this one is up for auction, but i'm not sure if i should bid on it. i can get regular royals for $20 locally. is this a different plec, or just a different pattern?

http://www.auction.fish-forum.com/item. ... 430f4f8615

mokmu · Post by **mokmu** » 06 Jun 2003, 05:46

I suppose this is okay. This Panaque, I think, has been categorized now as a Watermelon Pl*co and has been assigned the L#330 from L27a.

Yann · Post by **Yann** » 06 Jun 2003, 07:54

Hi!

Strange the fish pictured there has the coloration of L330 ( in the second part of the body) and of a "normal" Panaque nigrolineatus in the front part of the body...
It would be interesting to see if these coloration will change and if they change how it will change...
Cheers
Yann

Caol_ila · Post by **Caol_ila** » 06 Jun 2003, 09:44

Hi!

Imho its not too surprising that theres fish with these types of patterns. If you look at other species a melting in of spots to blotches or breaking up of lines to spots is quite a common thing.
It is a really nice looking fish though. Go for it Yann and find out what itll look like. ;)

Plec0maniac · Post by **Plec0maniac** » 06 Jun 2003, 17:06

hi yann, in my last shipment of L330 there are several patterns, and there are plenty of those types, half lines and half spots.. only 3-4pcs are all spotted

but they sure look pretty good!

S. Allen · Post by **S. Allen** » 07 Jun 2003, 05:26

err... actually, that pic is stolen, like many other fish auction pictures, from fish2u, an online store out of florida with crappy fish but a great selection...

http://www.fish2u.com/larspotroypl.html

has been up for a year or more there... Highly unlikely you'd get a fish from the same batch, and most likely it wouldn't look like what you wanted.