what is this?

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what is this?

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:ymblushing: hello people, i have 2 of this catfish, in the shop says Panaque sp bruno, but i don't think, 6 cm all brown with fins lighter but still brown and shades of blacks dots all over the body, eat algae and protein discus, live in the wood and are nocturnal, tanx for the answers,and if anyone has them how breeding them??
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? A bit difficult to tell from the photo.
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i know sorry! but it's very difficult catch this fish! x(
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one pics, but i don't think panaque bruno
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Pseudorinelepis sp. (L095) maybe?
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I´d say this is a member of the Hypostomus cochliodon - group and nothing of the mentioned ones. Hypostomus weberi does have spots in the dorsal fin.
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