Small brown pleco

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Small brown pleco

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Apologies for the rubbish pictures. Does anyone know what this is? The pair were unwanted after a house clearance and have spawned in their Q tank - the male is on an egg bunch. Some kind of Ancistrus maybe?
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Post by Silurus »

mummymonkey wrote:Some kind of Ancistrus maybe?
Yup.
Ancistrus triradiatus
, maybe?
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Re: Small brown pleco

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Thanks, that looks very much like it.
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