Butterfly pleco (NOT L-168)

BIGblue · Post by **BIGblue** » 01 Jul 2003, 22:23

I saw a real small, cheap ($3) butterfly pleco, and I wanted to do a little research on it. I don't know its scientific name, and when I look up butterfly pleco in the Cat-eLog or in google I keep seeing L-168.

The fish is real small, about 1 inch. He looks like a flounder with a tail. Does anyone have any idea what fish this is?

Post by **Barbie** » 01 Jul 2003, 22:25

Try a search for a hillstream loach. They aren't actually plecos at all.

Barbie

BIGblue · Post by **BIGblue** » 01 Jul 2003, 22:32

Thank you Barbie.

Post by **Barbie** » 01 Jul 2003, 22:56

No problem Bigblue, I really like them. I've kept them a couple different times. They are meat based scavengers in my experience and they like current, but didn't seem to stay in just the areas of high water movement. That's about all I could recall about them though, hence me telling you to do a search

Barbie

Post by **Dinyar** » 02 Jul 2003, 04:08

Actually, you can search this forum for "hillstream loach", "borneo", "Pseudogastromyzon", etc. The topic has come up several times.

Dinyar