sold as "gold zebra pleco"

AlvinBrockway · Post by **AlvinBrockway** » 20 Mar 2010, 05:07

I'll get some pics in the morning, dont want to disturb the tank this evening. I was at my LFS who has a really good reputation, at least from my experiance, with the fish he sells. I was looking at a tank, which contained some raphael catfish(very cool looking), and I noticed a pleco in the tank. I asked the owner what it was, and he had just gotten it in that day, so he had to go look, and told me it was sold to him, as a "Gold Zebra Pleco", I didn't care much exactly what it was, I've always liked plecos, just havent had the best luck with them surviving for unknown reasons(had 2 "exotic" plecos die on me the past year, 1 was a tiger pleco, and 1 was a royal pleco) Anyhow he cut me a break on the fish, wanted 25 for it, sold it to me for 13 because of my bad luck in the past. He also told me it was a sailfin strain, right now its only about 1.5 inchs, but adjusting very nicely to the tank so far. I'll get some good pics in the AM, but does anyone know what might be labeled a gold zebra pleco? i looked but found nothing, tons of zebras, but none called gold.

andywoolloo · Post by **andywoolloo** » 20 Mar 2010, 05:24

does he resemble any of the common name with zebra in the title on this site?

When he says sailfin strain the only thing that might go by sailfin that i know of is a gibby. Very beautiful pl*co in my opinion. But I have never heard them remotely referred to as zebra.

also the joselimaianus looks kind of goldy zebra ish maybe..maybe more goldy checkered but defintely has a sailfin.

Sailfin and zebra are polar opposites to me. Sailfin makes me think potential BIG zebra makes me think nice and small.

The zebras i know of are the real one L046, the chocolate zebra L270 the L316 Jari zebra

Alot of hypans look zebra esque as far as stripes but do not have zebra in the common name. Did you look thru all the hypan pictures?

I am excited to see a picture of him.

AlvinBrockway · Post by **AlvinBrockway** » 20 Mar 2010, 07:15

well its not either of those 2 you posted, it def looks like a zebra pleco, l046, l270. Im thinking l270 but i could be wrong. I will be sure to post pics though thanks for the quick response.

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 20 Mar 2010, 09:18

Without a photo, it's almost impossible to play the "guess the fish" if neither the guesser nor the question-master knows what the right answer is.

There are literally several dozen of striped plecos of different kinds that could match "gold zebra" description.

Of course, if your LFS could tell you what country it came from, it would help a whole lot.

However, despite the difficulty in guessing, I'm going to make an educated guess on (aka L129). They are fairly common in the trade, and the price is about right. But as I said, there are a few dozen that look roughly like that.

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Mats

wrasse · Post by **wrasse** » 20 Mar 2010, 14:10

I'm gonna guess Panaque Maccus. L104

Unungy · Post by **Unungy** » 20 Mar 2010, 17:43

Where are the pictures...

AlvinBrockway · Post by **AlvinBrockway** » 21 Mar 2010, 01:56

this pleco must know i wanted to take pics..i tried all day long to find him, without moving all the rocks and such in my tank...and never saw him for even a second..had to work this afternoon so tomorrow morning i'll break down all the rocks and find him, planned on rearranging the rocks anyhow so now i can kill 2 birds with 1 stone as they say..it looks alot an l270, but i'll get pics and hopefully we can get a positive ID, thanks for the responses so far everyone, i promise tomorrow pics will be up.

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