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A friend of mine from my LFS sent me a photo asking for an ID and I'm stumped even though I think it looks similar to an imperial ranger the color is a little different and the dorsal fin shape is completely wrong

Dorsal fin has too few rays for .

Maybe ?

Cheers, Eric

well I got the story behind the fish a customer wants to trade it in but he doesn't know what it is either

am I right in thinking it has the high back of the Hypostomus Cochliodon group?

Maybe Hypostomus sp. (L227)

the L227 has nose flaps this one doesn't

He may want to take a look at his teeth?

-Shane

It might be the L050, why do you think it is that one? I was also thinking it kinda looked like an L166.

It might be the L050, why do you think it is that one? I was also thinking it kinda looked like an L166.

If you look at the caudal fin, has a dark lower lobe, while has a dark distal margin, like your fish.

racoll wrote: ↑12 Apr 2018, 16:47

It might be the L050, why do you think it is that one? I was also thinking it kinda looked like an L166.

If you look at the caudal fin,

Hypostomus carinatus

has a dark lower lobe, while

L050

has a dark distal margin, like your fish.

ok let me make sure I've got it right by translating it to layman, so on the tail of the just the lower portion is darker, while the tail of the has a darker portion along the back edge. Did I get it right?

so on the tail of the Hypostomus carinatus just the lower portion is darker, while the tail of the L050 has a darker portion along the back edge. Did I get it right?

Exactly right!

Yay do I get a prize =)

Reminds me of Cochliodon Hondae. Don't know much about the bigger plecos, but definitely looks like the google images lol.