Pleco ID

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SchizotypalVamp
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Pleco ID

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This guy is selling at petsmart and I was wondering if I could get an ID:
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Camera phone pic. Thanks!
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Re: pl*co ID

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You will need to attach the picture directly here, rather than link to another forum - we can't see your picture without registering with AquariaCentral, which is a little much to ask just to get a picture of a fish.

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Re: pl*co ID

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I'm sorry, I didn't realize that would happen. Here it is again:
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Re: pl*co ID

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Hi!

It is an Hypostomus species but difficult to determine precisely the species!
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Spotted: 187
Location 1: North of Cambridge
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Re: pl*co ID

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I agree with Yann on both the genus ID of
Hypostomus
and the difficulty in identifying it further. As it is a less than stellar chain of shops, it's unlikely that they will tell you where it is from [because they probably don't care enough to even record & store such information in a way that can be tracked down to this fish - obviously they would be able to say where it was imported from if you knew which batch of imports it came in as, but I suspect strongly that they do not track shipments in sufficient detail to know which shipment this particular fish was part of].

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