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I was told just Violet Red Bruno Pleco.. I'm guessing L137 but it doesn't have blue eyes. Do they all have blue eyes? Or might this be something else? Thanks in advance.

Hmm still doing some research. Maybe L310 Hypostomus cochliodon or L360 Hypostomus sp. it really looks like the picture here http://www.planetcatfish.com/common/ima ... ge_id=7437

It is hard to tell from those pictures, and a mouth shot showing the dentition should help also.

So I was able to get a few more that I think show the colors better and I happened to get a shot of him on the glass just before I saw this. Thanks for the help. He's very very shy and still quite small as you can see in these.

I'm going to say it's this one Hypostomus basilisko
http://www.planetcatfish.com/common/spe ... es_id=5916 so confused...
And this is one reason why...

Source: Neotropical Ichthyology
http://www.scielo.br/pdf/ni/2014nahead/ ... 130162.pdf

Did you get this fish mail order or from a local shop?

From a local shop. They are the ones that told me it was a Violet Red Bruno.

If it is indeed , what a lucky find! The only other fish I could see it being (based on your pics) is possibly. Nice fish.

That's what I thought. H.basilisko is listed as "Bruno" or "Rusty Bruno" and even on some sites "Violet Bruno" and has more of the characteristics (from my very uneducated view) than the others and is still a cochliodon. I'm going to visit my LFS lady tomorrow afternoon (hoping she has a L177 Gold Nugget for me) and I will ask her if there's any way she can find exactly which one. At least by the number if nothing else. Although she also told me my Synodontis was a multipunctatus and I'm pretty confident in the conclusion on here that it's grandiops... which I'm actually happy about because that one stays a little smaller. Thanks for the input. I'll update on here any information I get as well.

Just read this on another site.
"Among the most popular fishes from Paraguay is the Violet Red Bruno. Finally the species has attained a scientific name: Hypostomus basilisko. The distribution of the fish is the Rio Paraguay, both in Brazil and Paraguay. Here it occurs along with two quite similar species of the Cochliodon-group of Hypostomus, namely Hypostomus cochliodon and Hypostomus khimaera. However, these two species can be easily told apart from H. basilisko, because they have always black spots on the body and the fins, which are always lacking in the Violet Red Bruno."
Mine has no black spots. He loves to hang out on the filter tube and scratch it with his teeth. I can hear every time he's on there.

Hi all,

KSquared wrote: He loves to hand out on the filter tube and scratch it with his teeth. I can hear every time he's on there.

Is there any wood in the tank? It is just I can't see any in the pictures.

They need some wood to process, and ideally something a little bit softer, not a really hard wood like mopani.

cheers Darrel

Oh most definitely I have a rather large piece if Malaysian drift wood in the tank. One that provides a "cave" of sorts and allows the fish to go under it as well. Also a couple of caves and plants in the tank for him to hide out in. I'm really new to this fascination of catfish and plecos in particular but I'm also fairly obsessive about them and making sure I'm doing it right. That's why I got on here in the first place I wanted to make sure I knew how to take care of all my fish. I just read a post on creating a mixture of food and egg whites to "paint" on a flat stone or wood for them to eat, I think I'll try that this weekend for him and my other plecos as well... Any other suggestions are most welcome... Here's a pic of the wood. And in regards to a previous question... I think this is about the best I'm going to be able to get of his teeth/mouth And with this http://www.suedamerikafans.de/en/wels-d ... /?art=1849 (he looks identical to the third picture at the bottom) I'm going to call it H.basilisko unless someone can tell me otherwise. Thanks all....