Which Loricariidae is this?

Gertbl · Post by **Gertbl** » 18 Sep 2011, 13:41

Hi everybody,

A person on a dutch forum has bought a Loricariidae but doesn't know which species it is. This is the Loricariidae:

Which Loricariidae is this?

Post by **Shane** » 18 Sep 2011, 13:46

Good old

-Shane

Gertbl · Post by **Gertbl** » 18 Sep 2011, 13:59

Thanks Shane for the clarification.

apistomaster · Post by **apistomaster** » 18 Sep 2011, 21:01

It does have rather nice looking patterns.
Gets large so be prepared for that.

Gertbl · Post by **Gertbl** » 19 Sep 2011, 19:03

It has indeed nice patterns. The person now know how large this fish is going to be so that she can see if the tank is large enough.

plecorocks · Post by **plecorocks** » 19 Sep 2011, 19:52

They can grow up to 30cm or larger. I have one that went from 9cm to 22cm+ in 8 months. Others have even bigger stories. I like his temperament, not really afraid of activity and doesn't back down from aggressive cichlids that he is tanked with.

apistomaster · Post by **apistomaster** » 19 Sep 2011, 21:30

I had one of these which reached 17-1/2 inches.
It was over 17 years old when I lost it. It is the longest I have every kept a fish.

It long ago learned how to swim upside down at the surface to eat Tetra Min Flakes. Very impressive to see such a large pleco eating from the surface in that way.

geminiluna · Post by **geminiluna** » 19 Sep 2011, 21:50

apistomaster wrote: Very impressive to see such a large pleco eating from the surface in that way.

That would have been a pic/video worth seeing, indeed! Any chance you have one?

sidguppy · Post by **sidguppy** » 19 Sep 2011, 22:39

just did a search on youtube, but when you put in "pleco" and "surface" you get a load of movies showing exactly that
;)

apistomaster · Post by **apistomaster** » 19 Sep 2011, 23:38

I had my big Pleco in one of my show tanks back about 40 years ago.
Long before the invention of cheap digital cameras so I have very few photos and those I have are Ektachrome slides of small fish like Killiefish and Apistogramma in special photo tank set up in the sun so I could stop the camera lens down to small F-Stops. I had a Nikkormat 35 mm SLR and Nikon 55 mm Macro lens.
I would love to own a digital camera/lens as nice as that Nikon set up.

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