What Type Of Pleco Is This?!

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CrazyCatfishGirl

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Hey everybody!
I have recently inherited a tank and have managed to successfully identify all of the fish apart from my pleco! Help would be gretly apreciated!!!
Also I have two Krbensis but I cant tell if I have two males or a male and female!!!!
:D
http://www.flickr.com/photos/k-tastrofie/5214678128/ - side
http://www.flickr.com/photos/k-tastrofie/5214675620/ - front
http://www.flickr.com/photos/k-tastrofie/5214673434/ - other side
and here are the Kribensis -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/k-tastrofie/5214089953/ - mr?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/k-tastrofie/5214680574/ - mrs?

sorry about the links, it wouldnt upload the pictures on here for some reason :(
 
You have correctly sexed the kribs. I will leave it to the catfish experts to identify your pleco.
 
Thankyou to everyone who replied! :good: you were all really helpfull!
Special Thankyou to Carl, he is a Plecolita Sabaji!!! :D
Im a newbie fish owner and its ace, very relaxing to watch!!! All the hard work of cleaning and water testing is definitely worth it when you se how happy they are!
Thanks again! Lou xxx :cool:
 
Yeah LO75's are beautiful fish (also known as Para Pleco's), had mine for 7 years now. Better look after it well as they are great fish to have (good temperments as far as pleco's go) and are quite pricey to buy from petshops (i usually see them for between £14-£20's per fish)- they do well on a daily diet of algae wafers or protein based catfish pelets (feed more algae wafers than protein pelets though), they will also eat cucumber (if you slice it down the middle or into thick slices and weight it down, though you must remove any uneaten cucumber after 24hrs) & cooked mussels too :good: .
Like all plecos they poop a fair bit and can be messy eaters so make sure you regularly keep the bottom of the tank clean as well as the water itself :thumbs: .
 
Yeah LO75's are beautiful fish (also known as Para Pleco's), had mine for 7 years now. Better look after it well as they are great fish to have (good temperments as far as pleco's go) and are quite pricey to buy from petshops (i usually see them for between £14-£20's per fish)- they do well on a daily diet of algae wafers or protein based catfish pelets (feed more algae wafers than protein pelets though), they will also eat cucumber (if you slice it down the middle or into thick slices and weight it down, though you must remove any uneaten cucumber after 24hrs) & cooked mussels too :good: .
Like all plecos they poop a fair bit and can be messy eaters so make sure you regularly keep the bottom of the tank clean as well as the water itself :thumbs: .
lol
£14-£20 is a good price for nice L-number plecos. £40-£200(L46) is what I call expensive.
Carl
 
^ Lol i am used to usually paying a few quid for my fish :lol: ! I mean expensive in comparrison to the usual variety of fish you usually see in an average petshop (common livebearers, tetras, barbs, corys etc- most petshop fish only cost a few quid) :) .
Too me paying 1, 2, 3 or even 4 hundred pounds for a fish is crazy fish money :lol: .

But LO75's are very nice fish and even though mine only cost £20 he is worth every penny + much much more :wub: !
 
that's some sort of common, right? i have one just like leopard, her name is charlotte.
 
that's some sort of common, right? i have one just like leopard, her name is charlotte.
No
You have- Common Plecos/Hypostomus plecostomus (usually around £3)
The OP has- Para Pleco/L075/Peckoltia sabaji (usually around £25)
Apart from both of them being plecos and having spots, there is a large difference between both species. :nod:
Carl
 
darn. maybe when i go to return it because its too big i can lie to my lfs? (they know less than i do)
 

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