Blue-Eyed Panaque? ID, Please!
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Blue-Eyed Panaque? ID, Please!
I was sent here from another aquarium forum so you could ID a Plecostomous for me. I, and the other people at the site, beleive that its a Blue-Eyed Panaque. We found pictures of the species, and mine looks exactly like them. Sorry that the photo isn't a full body-shot, but I can try to get one if you require it.
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http://www.geocities.com/parrotfish100
Thank you!
Link to picture-
http://www.geocities.com/parrotfish100
Thank you!
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Hi Parrotfish, nice to see you wandered over from AC I gather he is still doing alright? Not attacking more decor? There was a girl named Sam in Texas that was trying to work with these and get them spawning a few years ago. I haven't seen her around, but I'll see if I can locate her. I read in the thread on the other forum that you are considering taking it to the LFS. PLEASE don't do that. The odds are good it would then be purchased by a collector, not necessarily with the intention of breeding them and making them available in the hobby again. Larry (pleco breeder here on the board) has spawned them in the past, but doesn't have any of them at the moment. I know that another one was sold on the board at aquamojo.com a few months ago. You might see if you can find out who purchased that one and what sex it was. It would be a shame to have a nice adult that could really forward someone's breeding program get lost in the shuffle.
Have you ever shipped fish before? Where exactly are you located and maybe we can help you hook up with someone that could help you with that department also, if you do decide to let him go?
There are rumours that they are being seen occasionally now at wholesalers again, but I still have yet to see one that isn't at least 8 inches and old enough to have been collected years ago. Hopefully you can continue to keep your's healthy and happy until you figure out what you want to do with it.
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Have you ever shipped fish before? Where exactly are you located and maybe we can help you hook up with someone that could help you with that department also, if you do decide to let him go?
There are rumours that they are being seen occasionally now at wholesalers again, but I still have yet to see one that isn't at least 8 inches and old enough to have been collected years ago. Hopefully you can continue to keep your's healthy and happy until you figure out what you want to do with it.
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Ok, I won't take it to the lfs. Its is in perfect health that I can tell, except a little thing on its nose which I am trying to treat.
Lol, it hasn't been attacking any other decor in the tank, except when I tried to put the Ghost House back in... it was PISSED. It was literally shaking. I don't know much about terretorial behavior of plecos, but that fish was angry, lol
I live in Lincoln, CA (about 40 minutes away from Sacramento)
Lol, it hasn't been attacking any other decor in the tank, except when I tried to put the Ghost House back in... it was PISSED. It was literally shaking. I don't know much about terretorial behavior of plecos, but that fish was angry, lol
I live in Lincoln, CA (about 40 minutes away from Sacramento)
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Lol, yeah. I was EXTREMELY suprised when I heard about that! I was thinking it was too good to be true... these things normally don't happen to me. But now that I do know its real, I'm really proud to have one.
I would also like to thank everyone who is posting in this topic for taking interest in my fish, and for helping me out!
I would also like to thank everyone who is posting in this topic for taking interest in my fish, and for helping me out!
I'm new here, and have been out of the aquarium hobby for quite a few years -- I'm just getting back in, and have a special fondness for loricariids. I worked in an aquarium store in Canada for years (as a teenager) back in the late 70s-early 80s, and did most of the ordering. Back then, there were just a few high-dollar plecos available, and the two most popular ones were the "blue-eyed pleco" (just like the one pictured) and the "royal pleco" (I'd have to check L-numbers -- you know, the big striped one from Colombia).
They were nearly always available, but the prices were somewhat prohibitive -- a blue-eyed pleco could sell (retail) for as much as $15-$20 (Cdn), and they cost over $5 wholesale! So we rarely stocked more than a couple, and the blue-eyes in particular seemed somewhat delicate. I finally figured out that they liked some water movement and were fairly carnivorous. And (surprise) they really liked to hang out on driftwood. A few of our really dedicated customers did well with them under these conditions, but also reported that they were aggressive to others of the same species.
This is "primitive" information, but they were always one of my favorites and I worked hard to help them thrive. I really hope they'll become established in the hobby again, and am sad to hear of their decline in the wild.
They were nearly always available, but the prices were somewhat prohibitive -- a blue-eyed pleco could sell (retail) for as much as $15-$20 (Cdn), and they cost over $5 wholesale! So we rarely stocked more than a couple, and the blue-eyes in particular seemed somewhat delicate. I finally figured out that they liked some water movement and were fairly carnivorous. And (surprise) they really liked to hang out on driftwood. A few of our really dedicated customers did well with them under these conditions, but also reported that they were aggressive to others of the same species.
This is "primitive" information, but they were always one of my favorites and I worked hard to help them thrive. I really hope they'll become established in the hobby again, and am sad to hear of their decline in the wild.
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Well, I went to yet another website to brag about my Pleco And they claim it is not a Panaque suttoni, but a Panaque cochliodon (spelling?)... I don't really beleive them, since I have so much evidence for it being a suttoni, and so much against the other. I borrowed a book from my library called Aquarium Fish. Its an Eyewitness book, so I highly doubt it was wrong. It was listed as a Suttoni, and it was the freakin EXACT same fish as mine. Even down to the rows of teeth in a diamond-pattern!
Heres more pics in case you are interested:
http://www.geocities.com/parrotfish100
Its still a little hard to see the blue in its eyes, but its visible It was kinda like that in the book, as well.... the eyes weren't REALLY bright.
Heres more pics in case you are interested:
http://www.geocities.com/parrotfish100
Its still a little hard to see the blue in its eyes, but its visible It was kinda like that in the book, as well.... the eyes weren't REALLY bright.
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third post in this thread...
Recently Ingo Seidel from Germany "discovered" the blue eye to be P.cochliodon which is not 100% either i think.
actually the suttoni/suttonorum (spelling mistake) was a misidentification.Yep, the blue eyed Panaque (an undescriped Panaque sp., not Panaque suttonorum).
Recently Ingo Seidel from Germany "discovered" the blue eye to be P.cochliodon which is not 100% either i think.
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I just got a great deal on one of these bad-boys too. $70 at a LFS.... it was a trade in and the store owner is a friend. He was well aware what he could have asked for the fish, but for some reason he let me have it for relatively cheap.
pics here:
http://www.forum.planetcatfish.com/viewtopic.php?t=7416
What have you had luck with feeding yours? The LFS guy said the previous owner was feeding spirulina pellets and tetramin tabs... but I find that too good to be true. I've only had it a couple days and I got mine really really fat. So, I haven't seen it eat any of my offerings (so far just wood and hikari algae wafers)... but that maybe because it's still a little stressed and still full from his previous owners last meal.
pics here:
http://www.forum.planetcatfish.com/viewtopic.php?t=7416
What have you had luck with feeding yours? The LFS guy said the previous owner was feeding spirulina pellets and tetramin tabs... but I find that too good to be true. I've only had it a couple days and I got mine really really fat. So, I haven't seen it eat any of my offerings (so far just wood and hikari algae wafers)... but that maybe because it's still a little stressed and still full from his previous owners last meal.
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Parrotfish100, don't forget that the fish needs wood in its diet to survive. Make sure you supply a piece that the pleco can chew through. Also beware that the sawdust the fish will produce will clog filters very easily.
I'd think $300-500 would be a reasonable price if the fish is in good condition.
Rusty
I'd think $300-500 would be a reasonable price if the fish is in good condition.
Rusty