Can Someone Help Me Id My Plecos? Video Included. :d

[markgrotjahn]

Plecos Video

The details are in the video description, but in short, my roommate left her 10 gallon tank at my place that had a male Betta and a Pleco in it. I looked up plecos and have been researching them so I can give it a better home because the 10 gallon looked way too small for him/her. She's now temporarily in my 75 gallon tank.

Here's some details about her (I keep wanting to call the fish a her, though I don't know the gender....lol)
She moved when I was trying to measure her but she's about 6-8 inches long. I know that's kind of vague but I'm not sure if her tail counts as her length and if so she kept curling it.
Of all the foods I've tried she seems to be mainly vegetarian--peas, cucumbers, broccoli, and carrots she devoured quickly--but does like the tubifex worms and bloodworms and the vacation feeder she's eating in the video.
So far, she's been extremely passive with the other fish. You can see that in the video. An albino cory runs into her while she's eating and she didn't even flinch.
I have no idea how old she is, but my roommate had her for at least 5-7 years. If she was a common, I'm pretty sure she would have died awhile ago in that tiny 10 gallon.
She is orange and her belly is white with a slight orange tint. I couldn't get a video of her on the tank wall because she rarely stayed there for long and seems comfortable enough to not hide much now.

If you know possibly the gender too, that'd be great. But for now any help identifying the breed would be greatly appreciated. PetSmart only sells common plecos and my roommate claims she bought her there years ago, but nothing about her appearance, diet, coloration or anything suggests a common. Petsmart employees said they didn't know what she was, and that they've never sold orange plecos. So idk.

 

[xingumike]

It is a common, an amelanistic one.

 

[snazy]

The coloration I believe is called "leucistic". Yours is a beauty
It looks like a common pleco from the "Pterygoplichthys" family because the count of the rays on the dorsal fin is more than 8(in your case 14) Some of commons, like the Pterygoplichthys scrophus, grow to about 10 inches max(How long is yours?) I've got a common myself and it isn't growing that rapidly either.

 

[xingumike]

Its not scrophus, will be a farmed pardalis/disjunctivus

 

[snazy]

Its not scrophus, will be a farmed pardalis/disjunctivus

I didn't say it's scrophus, just pointing out that some of them don't grow as big, but it's definately a Pterygoplichthys.
It does look like the pardalis ones as in the pictures from planetcatfish below. The Pterygoplichthys pardalis grow to 13.8 inches(35cm max). Mine is a common more likely Pterygoplichthys disjunctivus(they grow slightly bigger) and looks a bit different, the tail base is shorter and the tail itself broader and longer. At a year and a half mine is 7 inches. And with that orange colour on yours it will be hard to see the belly patern to say for sure whether it's a pardalis or disjunctivus. Mine is a big clumsy doll, very peaceful.

Here are the pictures from planetcatfish under the Pterygoplichthys pardalis. They do look similar to your pleco:

http/www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/image.php?species=pterygoplichthys_pardalis&image_id=10133

http/www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/image.php?species=pterygoplichthys_pardalis&image_id=7801

 

[xingumike]

The caudal is not a distinguising feature afaik.

Like the Ancistrus sold in the trade, I would just say this is a 'common', I think it is probably a hybrid sp anyways.