A very blue royal pleco allegedly an L027a "BLUE spotte

patrickstockton · Post by **patrickstockton** » 03 Mar 2004, 18:00

I dont have any good photos and i have been scouring all good pleco and catfish websites to no avail. I can't find mention or pics of a blue royal pleco. My fish is uniformly a dark sky blue with gray eyes. he is seriously very blue, not green, gray or olive. Although he is allegedly a "spotted blue" he actually has no spots. he is about 3" long so maybe the spots come out when older. The guy at the aquarium store stated that the fish was wild and very rare. He'd only ever seen one other. Is this true? he was $50 after all. Has anyone ever seen a blue royal? does nayone have pics? feel free to email if you do to pcstockton@hotmail.com make the subject line BLUE ROYAL.

Post by **Silurus** » 03 Mar 2004, 18:01

L239?

quix · Post by **quix** » 04 Mar 2004, 01:25

he could be a blue panaque like siurus has posted. panaque is juz a common name for this fish..it is actually not a panaque like the royals. comes from ancistrinae family.

Whiteysfish · Post by **Whiteysfish** » 05 Mar 2004, 17:31

Could be a blue ancistrinae, possibly a L128. I have bred some L128s that havent had any spots, and were bright blue-very raely has it happened, but a pic sure would help-obviously, but Ill see if I can locate the person I sold one to, and snap a pic for ya.

Caol_ila · Post by **Caol_ila** » 05 Mar 2004, 18:26

@whitey do you have any pics of that spawning? Youd be the first to have successfully spawned them afaik.