Butterfly Pleco

[Jessica13]

Hey,

I lost the Albino BN (from other thread a couple of days ago) last night. I went back to my LFS with dead fish and sample of water They tested it, the water was perfect, so i dont know what killed the BN.. But they gave me some credit towards another fish as they had no more albino BN's.

So... I decided on something a bit different and went for this little Butterfly Pleco! I think its L52? Something like that. Anyway, he is really cute!!! Do you like him?

 

[Bloo]

Gorgeous ! yep sure looks like an L 052 to me

 

[Paul_MTS]

cor what a beut!!

love the pattern on his head, awesome.

 

[Jessica13]

He's a nice one then? I dont really know what they should look like as i've never heard of them before He's really friendly by the way, i put my hand in the tank earlier to move something and he came up and started swimming around my hand... I think he was trying to eat me

 

[bunjiweb]

Deffinately an L052, ID'd it myself. Butterfly plecs are really nice, I nearly bought this guy a few weeks back. He does seem to be quite a friendly one. Always out and about at work....

Shame about the Albino BN, he was fine in the shop for weeks, and the 2 I got from the same batch are fine... Glad Rob sorted you out with some credit etc. though.

Ben

 

[digital_run]

Very nice plec Jess...Looks big already...and if you dont mind me askin how much did he cost you?..

again great pic/plec

Ðigital

 

[Jessica13]

Hows your Zebra plec doing Ben?!

This guy is lovely isn't he?! He was a bit more than i'd planned to spend, but with the credit it was a bit better! It is very strange about the albino. He was fine, eating and swimming around, then i just found him dead last night when i went to turn the lights off The water was all good though so i guess its just one of those things.. Hopefully this one will last a bit longer! My big BN is doing well so thats a good sign!

Digital Run - He was £25, but i got a bit of a discount and some credit back from the one i lost so he only cost me £13 today! And he's not as big as he looks... About 3" or so i guess, but im not good with measurements!

 

[breezer40]

L52's are great! I have 5 of them and they are always out and about. Try them with a peice of cucumber...they go nuts for it!

 

[Jessica13]

I give my BN cucumber so i'll put some extra in for the new one!

Here's a few more pics now that he's settled in a bit..

Checking out the bogwood

He found my cute little BN - They seem to be getting on very well!!

(This is probably the best picture i'll get of my BN now, he NEVER comes out from under that Bogwood for more than 2 minutes )

 

[Nix]

Nice!

 

[Torrean]

I thought butterfly pleco was another word for the hong kong plec aka hillstream loach.

 

[daudy_dojo]

i have always wanted one of those... too bad they cost like 300$ at my LFS

 

[The-Wolf]

I thought butterfly pleco was another word for the hong kong plec aka hillstream loach.

nope butterfly loach is another name for a hong kong pleco (hillstream loach)

very nice pleco Jessica13
makes me want one

 

[KageBunshin]

I may sounds stupid... but how is the PLeco classification work out... L( )? what does that mean?

 

[Torrean]

wallmart had hillstream loaches marked as butterfly pleco's. That's why I was confused.