How Many Different Types Of Long Fin Bristlenose Plecos Are There?

[Neon]

Hi All!
Just trying to find out how many variations of LONG FIN Bristlenose Plecos that are out there?
I currently have:

Albino
L-144
Green dragon
Brown Lace
Brown Dwarf
Marble
Super Reds

Can anyone add any more to the list? (pics would also be appreciated)
Thanks!

[Neon]

Anyone?
Wow...not a very active forum?

[bekateen]

I don't know, but I imagine that, as long as you stay within

Ancistrus cf_cirrhosus

, you will potentially find long fin variants of just about every possible color morph. As I understand it, the long fin condition is a simple genetic mutation, so if anyone bothers to breed a long finned adult with normal finned adults, and then they start crossbreeding the fry when they grow up, that person will eventually obtain a long fin variety of their color morph. The complication in this is that if your two parents don't start as the same color variants, then cross breeding these parents blends not just the genes for long and short fin, but also for the various color mutants. This could end up bringing you back to either plain brown BNs or at least offspring with "diluted" color morphs (e.g., not just super red, but red with some brown in it).

Is that your question (about how it happens), or are you simply trying to construct an inventory of the long fin variants currently available?

Cheers, Eric

[bekateen]

Neon,

This post may have gone overlooked because it is in the wrong forum. Bristlenoses are a type of loricariid; some members and guests here preferentially check for new posts only within the forums that interest them, which in this case would be the "South American Catfishes (Loricariidae - Plecos et al)" forum. So it's possible that people just aren't finding your post as often as you'd hope.

@admin, would you please move this thread to the Loricariidae forum?

Thank you, Eric