Rhino Pleco

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Auto_Girl25
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Rhino Pleco

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Does anyone have a good picture of a Rhino Pleco. We bought one about a month ago, that at the pet store was listed as a Rhino Pleco, but after we had a visitor in our home this person said they've never seen a Rhino that looked like that.
Sorry no pics of mine as I have a crappy camera.
Thanks
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Post by smithrc »

Google image search brings up some good piccys of them ;)

http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en ... a=N&tab=wi
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Post by 3bdesigns »

Here are a few pics of mine. He's just a little guy - about 3" long.

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Post by Auto_Girl25 »

That looks nothing like my Rhino. She has small fins is about 6 inches long and her tail is flat.
65 Gallon- Rhino Pleco,Common Pleco, unidentified syndontis, 2 red-flash sharks, 2 tin-foil barbs, 2 appolo sharks.
15 Gallon0 2 Phamtom tetra, 1 otto cat, 2 Penguin tetra 1 bristole nose pleco.
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Post by Auto_Girl25 »

ok I'm convienced that's definately not my fish, she's not nearly even that colour she's more of a gray colour
65 Gallon- Rhino Pleco,Common Pleco, unidentified syndontis, 2 red-flash sharks, 2 tin-foil barbs, 2 appolo sharks.
15 Gallon0 2 Phamtom tetra, 1 otto cat, 2 Penguin tetra 1 bristole nose pleco.
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Post by Auto_Girl25 »

After further reasearch, and several opinions from several different fish shoppes we have fingured out that we have a pleco that looks more like a Pit-Bull Pleco then a Rhino.
65 Gallon- Rhino Pleco,Common Pleco, unidentified syndontis, 2 red-flash sharks, 2 tin-foil barbs, 2 appolo sharks.
15 Gallon0 2 Phamtom tetra, 1 otto cat, 2 Penguin tetra 1 bristole nose pleco.
Auto_Girl25
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Post by Auto_Girl25 »

However most of the reasearch I've found states that a Pit-Bull pleco gets to be about 2-3 inches long. Mine is 6 inches and growing.
65 Gallon- Rhino Pleco,Common Pleco, unidentified syndontis, 2 red-flash sharks, 2 tin-foil barbs, 2 appolo sharks.
15 Gallon0 2 Phamtom tetra, 1 otto cat, 2 Penguin tetra 1 bristole nose pleco.
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Post by MatsP »

How about posting a photo? It's hard for most of us to recognise some fish WITH pictures, but a guessing what something [as generic as a browinish pleco] would not be easy. There's just too many to choose from...

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Post by smithrc »

do you mean pitbull? they really do only get to a couple of inches (we have 6)

might you mean bulldog?
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Post by Auto_Girl25 »

No it look alot like a pitbull except for the length. I know it's not a Bull-Dog I've had one before
65 Gallon- Rhino Pleco,Common Pleco, unidentified syndontis, 2 red-flash sharks, 2 tin-foil barbs, 2 appolo sharks.
15 Gallon0 2 Phamtom tetra, 1 otto cat, 2 Penguin tetra 1 bristole nose pleco.
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