What is this Oto?

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What is this Oto?

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What is this Otocinclus?

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The image is not showing?
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Richard B wrote:The image is not showing?
Richard, maybe it's your computer. For me the image displays just fine. Here it is, now uploaded to the thread:
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Unfortunally, In Brazil a lot of Otocinclus are incorrectly named Otocinclus affinis in the stores. Because this I want know the true name of this fish.
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whatever it is, I got 12 in my tank that look almost identical. Mine supposedly came from Peru though (though distribution could still be the same fish.)
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I can stop keeping catfish whenever I want. I just don't think I'll ever want to do that...
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Why?
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MCampos wrote:Why?
Let start off with I am not a professional ichthyologist or anything like that, just a guy who stares at the Cat-elog images multiple times a day while he dreams about keeping the numerous species and to make myself slightly more useful for IDs

The Clog picture looks rather different however if you click on it the second and other picture look much more like your fish. I based this ID purely on the speckled dorsal pattern (not the dorsal fin, the actual dorsal portion of the fish) the distinct nature of the "dot" on the cadual peduncle and how inconsistent the black lateral line is (Not a solid black line but with molted edges).
I can stop keeping catfish whenever I want. I just don't think I'll ever want to do that...
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You are right. I agree.

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