Can ya help identify this pair? Bought as Colompian Pleco?

[ljtan55]

Hi I'm new to this forum although I've visited these pages heaps of times Great place its saved me many a time from buying a monster pleco that will outgrow my tank.

I bought this pair of colombian plecos, but can't find any kind of proper ID for them. A friend said they might be whiptails, but not sure what kind of whiptails.



The boy



The girl

Any kinds of info about care would be great as well. Thanks!

[sidguppy]

Yup, these are Whiptails.
Check out Rhineloricaria

nice fish! they look a bit like R lanceolata, but not exactly the same.
determining these is very tricky, even when the origin is known, many species are not described yet.

luckily for you these are friendly, small, harmless fish. most stay at 4" or so, some reach 6" and 1 or 2 can reach 8" (still more tail than anything else).
they grow very slowly.

[racoll]

Could they be different fish?

Pic one looks like Hemiloricaria, while fish two looks a bit like a Sturisomatichthys.

More pics would help I think.

[sidguppy]

all those Hemi's are back in Rhineloricaria for some unknown reason.

they've been dragged all over the nomenclature yard right up to the point where I gave up on getting their name correct, like the Common Plec.
that one seems to be in Liposarcus on mondays, or when it rains; in Pterygoplichthys whenever someone with a jar of formaldehyde took the wrong meds and in Glyptoperichthys after a good night of getting hammered to be back in Liposarcus once the morning hangover arrives by taxi. I've seen it crawling all over the catelog just in a few months....

so it seems that lil' fairly hairy (male) whiptails are now -for as long as it takes perhaps- are back in Rhineloricaria (it was whittled down to R latirostris), but don't hold your breath

[racoll]

Good rant Sid

Sorry to confuse. I meant Rineloricaria, not Hemiloricaria in my previous post.

[Shane]

R. eigenmanni from the llanos.
http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/sp ... es_id=1064
-Shane