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Hi everybody,

A person on a dutch forum has bought a Loricariidae but doesn't know which species it is. This is the Loricariidae:

Which Loricariidae is this?

Good old

-Shane

Thanks Shane for the clarification.

It does have rather nice looking patterns.
Gets large so be prepared for that.

It has indeed nice patterns. The person now know how large this fish is going to be so that she can see if the tank is large enough.

They can grow up to 30cm or larger. I have one that went from 9cm to 22cm+ in 8 months. Others have even bigger stories. I like his temperament, not really afraid of activity and doesn't back down from aggressive cichlids that he is tanked with.

I had one of these which reached 17-1/2 inches.
It was over 17 years old when I lost it. It is the longest I have every kept a fish.

It long ago learned how to swim upside down at the surface to eat Tetra Min Flakes. Very impressive to see such a large pleco eating from the surface in that way.

apistomaster wrote: Very impressive to see such a large pleco eating from the surface in that way.

That would have been a pic/video worth seeing, indeed! Any chance you have one?

just did a search on youtube, but when you put in "pleco" and "surface" you get a load of movies showing exactly that
;)

I had my big Pleco in one of my show tanks back about 40 years ago.
Long before the invention of cheap digital cameras so I have very few photos and those I have are Ektachrome slides of small fish like Killiefish and Apistogramma in special photo tank set up in the sun so I could stop the camera lens down to small F-Stops. I had a Nikkormat 35 mm SLR and Nikon 55 mm Macro lens.
I would love to own a digital camera/lens as nice as that Nikon set up.