Need an ID please

mudfrogk5 · Post by **mudfrogk5** » 10 Nov 2005, 00:02

Hey everyone, just picked up this little guy at the LFS, they didn't know what it was so they told me $3.99. Couldn't pass it up in case it's a good find. It's currently ~3.5". Here is the pic. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Post by **Silurus** » 10 Nov 2005, 00:39

Looks like either a common () or a gibby (). Bit hard to tell with all that stress coloration.

mudfrogk5 · Post by **mudfrogk5** » 10 Nov 2005, 00:56

I'll see if I can get a better pic, I picked him up because he deffinitely did not look like a common, it has brown stripes going down it's sides and on it's fins.

mudfrogk5 · Post by **mudfrogk5** » 10 Nov 2005, 01:12

Ok, here are a couple better pics, at least they show the coloration.

mudfrogk5 · Post by **mudfrogk5** » 10 Nov 2005, 03:11

Here is another angle if it will help.

mudfrogk5 · Post by **mudfrogk5** » 10 Nov 2005, 05:15

Anybody? I looked at all the plecos in the cat-elog and nothing stood out.

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 10 Nov 2005, 13:42

I counted the dorsal rays, it's 11 or 12 (can't quite see the last ones), which means that it's definitely of Pterogoplichthys genus, but I'm not quite sure which specie it would be. Have a look at genus thumbnails for Pterogoplichthys.

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Mats

mudfrogk5 · Post by **mudfrogk5** » 10 Nov 2005, 13:47

Hey thanks for the reply, I looked at those pics and I did not see one that looks like it, or at least to me it doesn't look like it. I only saw two with any type of red on them and they had a totally different pattern.

Here is a better view of the dorsal fin.

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 10 Nov 2005, 13:53

mudfrogk5 wrote:Here is a better view of the dorsal fin.

Ok, so counting the EXACT number of dorsal rays won't help, since anything with more than 10 is definitely of the Pterogoplichtys genus, all other (similar) genera have 7-8 rays.

What size is your fish? There are several of them that change colour as they grow... For example, look at the Juvenile and adults of .

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Mats

mudfrogk5 · Post by **mudfrogk5** » 10 Nov 2005, 14:04

That is a big difference in the Juvie and adult, I know they changed but that is dramatic.

Mine is a Juvie, only 3.5". So I guess I'm going to need to wait till it becomes an adult before I can figure out what it is.

mudfrogk5 · Post by **mudfrogk5** » 10 Nov 2005, 14:38

Well it might be a common afterall. I did some searching and found this site. Look at the pic to the right, it has similar yet faint red markings. Even if it is a common it's the best looking common I have seen.

http://www.jjphoto.dk/fish_archive/aqua ... rdalis.htm