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You need a catching location to be sure what species it is, if not you have to wait until it is mature. There are several L-no that look very similar as youngster coming from different rivers in Brasil.
Not really, but the head shape is wrong to be a Hypancistrus and the mouth reminds me on a Scobiancistrus.
To be sure, can you take a pic of the teeth?
It certainly isn't an ancistrinae/i/however one spells it these days, nor is it a baryancistrus, so I don't really see what other black and white spotted loricariids it could be.
Jon wrote:It certainly isn't an ancistrinae/i/however one spells it these days, nor is it a baryancistrus, so I don't really see what other black and white spotted loricariids it could be.
Ancistrini is the name for group of plecos now belonging to the hypostominae that used to have their own sub-family ancistrinae. So it MUST be an ancistini!
I noted a spine on top of the head.
Typical to Leporacanthicus species, but the shape of the rest of the fish looks different. So I gess that there are more than Leporacanthicus that have that kind of spine of the head!?
judging by the shape it's definately a Scobancistrus, it's not a sunshine or L253, so in my opinion it's a L48 they come in both light brown or dark brown.. also forgot to say very nice fish keep feeding him well and do your waterchanges and in time he or she will be as big as it's tank mate L14...
Really funny you don't find the DATZ pic accruate since they are the one behind the L numbering system and L368 was first imported by transfish and first pictured by transfish as well... which mean their picture is the ref for all the rest!!
I have seen so many wrongly id fish on export stock list...and when you know how they assign L number to the fish they send... trust me the river has really nothing to do...
they have employees checking the fish and identifing with the Aqualog book...and if you are lucky it is with the new one...so it is just a wild guess...only a few companies have their own fishermens, that collect fish for them so they can be really sure about the ID...
that kind of annoys me! my lfs get quite a lot of L's in stock and tbh most are labelled wrong, not his fault mind. its a shame really, but then again we wouldnt be having this conversation if it all went smoothly!
It's roughly 14 hours since the picture was posted (3:09 pm - 1.23 am -> 13h54m in my math). Since some of the members of this forum has more things to do than just sit around looking at web-sites, they may not go here more than once a day or less... So maybe some patience, perhaps?