Light brown catfish bought as Peckoltia Pulcher

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Light brown catfish bought as Peckoltia Pulcher

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I've bought this fish as a peckoltia pulcher, for a cheap 9,5? but i don't think it is one.
It's very light brown (beige?) with just select few stripes. Less than the male pulcher.
It looked similar to the pulchers when i bought it but he was a bit smaller than the rest. Now after a month or 2 he clearly altered his looks.
He's around 5cm (about 2 inches) now, didn't grow very much. unlike my snowball, he grew 2cm in just 2 weeks.
Sorry for the bad quality pictures but he's really hard to get on camera. Very shy.

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Here you can clearly see how light colored he is. Gravel is actually light grey (not white), maybe that has got to do with it's coloring.
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Thanks in advance
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Post by pleco_breeder »

Hello,

You have a small Panaque maccus. As small fish, they have a wider bars, but grow into the heavily striated pattern of your fish.

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