Lemon Drop Ancistrus

[fishbguy]

Hello all

Today I bought a "Lemon Drop Ancistrus" for my planted 29 gallon.

It's maybe an inch long, and once it gets in the tank and is visible, I'll try and get some pics of it.

But in the mean time, I've been trying to find some pictures of it online to see what it'll look like when it gets older, and, I can't find a THING. Nothing, nowhere. It's not even on the cat-e-log...lol

Anyways, the guy that sold it to me says that it's a cross between a calico and an albino ancistrus, but I thought that theose were all genetics, and that if you cross the two, you would get either calicos or albinos, not a color varient. The lemon drop looked exactly like the calico. It is darkish brown with some spots on it and the tips of it's tail are yellowish in color.

Does anyone have any information on it? Or even pictures? Any help would be great.

It's going in my 29 gallon that is barely planted (in the process of re-doing it) but right now there is a pretty big piece of drift wood, and plans are to add more.

Currently, there is a clown pleco, 12 rummy nose tetras, 7 green fire tetras, and 5 glowlight danios, 5 C. habrosus, and 5 ottos. Future plans for it will have a final stocking of the rummies, some angel fish, the cories, ottos, and the 2 plecos.

Thanks for any help!

Andrew

[andywoolloo]

I thought the lemon drop was just the albino ones?
like a nick name?

http://www.mondoaquatics.com/zencart/in ... cts_id=306

[drpleco]

No, lemondrops (at least the ones in MI I've seen) are a calico x albino cross. They look like a standard brown to me, which would make sense sicne they're the product of two different recessive gene sets. If you cross them, you should get some browns, some albinos, some calicos. They aren't anything special, otherwise.

[fishbguy]

oh...that's great...lol

well, then, at least he's kinda pretty, for a regular brown. So at least I"ll have a nice brown bristle nose...lol

[andywoolloo]

he is only an inch long and he was for sale!! poor little peanut!!

I can't wait to see pics!

[fishbguy]

yeah...he's about the size of my ottos, maybe a teensy bit smaller.