Unkown Pleco

jont1b · Post by **jont1b** » 18 May 2004, 16:09

Hi everyone,

I recently bought a couple of pleco's from my local fish shop one was labled as an "orange spot catfish" (very helpful hey!). i asked the one of the chaps who works there what it was and he said he'd never seen one before they got the shipment in, he's usually very knowledgable as he is a private importer, he's in mexico at the mo!

Anyway the fish is about 1 1/2" long, very dark almost black body with yellow-orange spots, similar to the gold nugget plec but with fewer, slightly larger spots.

The other Pleco was labled as a "butterfly plec" but having looked at the cat-elog i can deffinately say he isn't one of them! He looks like a flatfish in that his side fins form two overlaping circles, he's about 1 1/2" long and a mottled grey colour. His mouth is more of an upturned u shape than the "normal" pleco O.

I'll try to get a picture of them as soon as i can but my camera isn't very good at close-ups.

Cheers everyone.

Jon.

Post by **Silurus** » 18 May 2004, 16:31

The "butterfly pleco" is not a pleco, but a hillstream loach, most likely of the genus Gastromyzon.

jurassic_pork · Post by **jurassic_pork** » 18 May 2004, 18:11

You could check out loaches online,They have a good lenghty article on the hillstream loaches there

Mark

pleco_breeder · Post by **pleco_breeder** » 20 May 2004, 18:32

The orange spot pleco sounds like

Larry Vires

jont1b · Post by **jont1b** » 31 May 2004, 23:47

i've finally got those pics i promised.

sorry for the poor quallity, combination of bad camera and bad software (editing)

jon.

DeLBoD · Post by **DeLBoD** » 01 Jun 2004, 00:04

I think thats a young Glyptoperichthys joselimaianus or Glyptoperichthys gibbiceps.