Can you please identify my plec ??

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Can you please identify my plec ??

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I got sold this plec as a "clown plec" and i asked the women in shop what species it was she told me, she bought them as "L15/103". Can anybody help id this for me thanks!
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I would say that is .
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It is either or

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so what did it mean by L15/103 when i bough it
as L103 is peckoltia and L15 is peckoltia vittata "candy striped plec"
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hope this one is a bit better
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As husky_jim and Chrysichthys suspected, this is .
so what did it mean by L15/103 when i bough it as L103 is peckoltia and L15 is peckoltia vittata "candy striped plec"
Unfortunately there are many common names for different fish, and few stores or exporters bother to correctly ID the fish they sell. (L015) is commonly sold as the clown pleco, as is .

Nothing wrong with common names, as not everyone is able to remember or even pronounce half of the scientific names, but I wish shops would ID their fish (its not hard these days) properly, and give the scientific name too.

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he looks quite like this could it be this Peckoltia sp. (L170
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He does a bit, but a number of factors indicate P. maccus:

* is a very rare import, and the Abacaxis is not a frequently exported-from area.
* P. maccus is a very common import.
* The name "clown pleco" is the usual common name for P. maccus.
* The small eyes, the narrow stripes and the broken stripes/spots on head are all good matches for P. maccus.

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yes lol thanks alot for all your help
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Looks like a clown pleco I used to have, when I saw her.
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