Need help w/ a pleco id

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Need help w/ a pleco id

Post by Cooky_luvs »

Hiyas everyone,

I was just referred over from another forum. I've used this website to help w/ id's so many times and still never noticed the forum..lol Great to know you have one. I need help id'ing this pleco so I'll just copy and paste the original post.

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I've had this guy for about 2 weeks, he's a good hider so I finally got pictures tonight ^_^ Took me long enough...lol. He's got loads of personality and even ate from my hand, so now I have two spoiled plecos. I *think* he may be a Hypostomus sp. (L227), but it's hard to tell. http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/lo ... 1520_2.PHP

Any ideas?
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On a sad note my biggest pleco Sneaky died today, without any known cause, didn't even act sick, i miss him ;("
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Post by Candice »

I'm not sure, but what a friendly little guy! I love that it's eating from your hands. TOO COOL!
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Post by Yann »

Hi!

Look like some sort of Hypostomus from the cochliodon species group, but which species is quite hard as many are looking quite the same...and some does change a bit from juvenil stage to adult...

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