New Tank Need Help Id'ing Fish!

[robert.sadler]

Hey there all

I got a new tank today off gumtree for the bargain price of £50

The tank came with the stand lights filter heater pump the works!

However!

It also came with 4 fish and I'm not sure what they are

There are:
Two catfish
One Plec
One "silver shark"

So I was wondering if you could ID them for me

The pics aren't great but hopefully I'll get more over the coming days

EDIT

Heres some slightly better pics of my new plec I kinda like this fella so I'm hoping it isn't a common plec and I can keep it in the tank?!?!!?!?!?

Just took a load of the same photo basically using the different settings on my phone

Cheers

Robert

 

[dthoffsett]

The shark is a Balantiocheilus melanopterus, commonly called a Bala Shark. They can grow up to 13" and are a schooling species so should be kept in 75gal or larger.
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Not sure on the pleco, and the catfish look like one of the pimelodidae to me, but I'm not sure which species, clearer pics would help.

 

[prankster705]

shark = bala shark

pleco = probably common, looks very much like it, better pic would help, the small tail spots confuse me a lot...

other catfish seems like a pim, possibly white line pim (Pimelodus albofasciatus)?

 

[robert.sadler]

Cool well it looks like all 4 need a bigger tank sooner or later so I'm just gonna ship them off to my LFS to trade them in.

 

[paul_219]

Well ur fish needs a bigger tank. And some more decoration will be better also. Maybe if u tell us the size of the tank we can help u stock it.

 

[prankster705]

Now that I see a better pic, it certainly seems like a common pleco...

 

[pinkdolphin_113]

im sure the shark will have already been stated, it is a silver/bala shark. they get to about a foot long and prefer more of their own kind around so they can school together. if i were in your position, i would take it to your lfs and research a few other fish to replace this one huge fish.

the pleco is a common pleco, also an absaloute huge fish. it gets to around 2 feet, given the space, and creates so much waste its unbeleiveable. again, i would take this to your lfs and replace it with a few smaller fish. if you're interested in pleco, bristlenoses will keep your tank free from algea and dont grow big. if you have a big wallet, there are plenty of more exotic pleco species which max out at like 5 inches or something. peckoltia, hypancistrus, panaque etc.

the catfish, with big whiskers, you have seem to, in my opinion, resemble ornate pims rather than white line pims. the colouring just doesn't work out for them to be white lines. a clearer picture would go very far lol if they do turn out to be ornates, this species too grows to about a foot long so, again, i would take it to a lfs and trade it for a few smaller fish. if you're interested in cats similar, p. pictus max out at about 6 inch.

i know you got these fish given to you but reading about fish before buying them is highly recommended. on the occasion where you can't find anything on a certain fish, just ask about it, i'm sure someone on here would have kept one before

 

[robert.sadler]

The guy I bought them from had literally described them as a sucker fish two silver catfish and a shark of some kind.

I was happy to take them because I knew that if I didn't want them there would be someone local that could take them and give them a good tank to live in.

I've already got two baby bristlenose plecs ready to go into the tank along with 4 amano shrimp ready to go in there

I'm then gonna put six Skunk cories in their followed by some oto's and then maybe some mollies and platys

All with nice tall Vallis and a bunch of other plants in there

Its all been planned for a while I guess I just got a little more than planned when I got the tank.

 

[severum boy]

And yet again common names fail us.

This is not a common plec. It is a Gibby plec, Glyptoperichthys gibbiceps. The common plec is a totally different species, Hypostomus plecostomus.

 

[robert.sadler]

And yet again common names fail us.

This is not a common plec. It is a Gibby plec, Glyptoperichthys gibbiceps. The common plec is a totally different species, Hypostomus plecostomus.

cool

How big do Gibby Plecs generally get then?

 

[dthoffsett]

And yet again common names fail us.

This is not a common plec. It is a Gibby plec, Glyptoperichthys gibbiceps. The common plec is a totally different species, Hypostomus plecostomus.

cool

How big do Gibby Plecs generally get then?

According to planet catfish about 18 inches.
[URL="http/www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/species.php?species_id=148"]http/www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/speci...?species_id=148[/URL]

 

[pinkdolphin_113]

And yet again common names fail us.

This is not a common plec. It is a Gibby plec, Glyptoperichthys gibbiceps. The common plec is a totally different species, Hypostomus plecostomus.

this isnt a gibby, the body shape and colours aren't that of a gibby. this is what is known in the hobby as a common pleco although it may not be a plecostomus hypostomus.
either way, both fish get too big for this fish tank.

 

[Straydum]

yeap gibby or not, the plec would have to leave sooner or later. well and same goes for the other fishes though i'm not too sure on the pims

 

[robert.sadler]

No probs I've managed to find a new home for all four anyway

Then its on with the new tank

Mollys and platys Galore!

oh and some cories and two BN plecs and an army of shrimp for good measure!

 

[severum boy]

this isnt a gibby, the body shape and colours aren't that of a gibby. this is what is known in the hobby as a common pleco although it may not be a plecostomus hypostomus.
either way, both fish get too big for this fish tank.

Its colours and body shape look exaclty like every young gibby ive seen.....