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Looks like a hyp from where I'm standing.

These are not the same fish as yours; this is most notable when you take a look at the head region, in which star's fish has a very noticeably thicker rostral region. As I stated on pf, I think this might be a. punctatus, but there is no way to know for sure.

They certainly might not be (see previous spiel about misidentification in these types of ancistrus), but as far as I know, that particular pectoral fin marking is restricted generally to Peruvian species. That being said, I have had individuals that have been nearly jet black, though, after...

Looks like a Ucayali to me.

Same people everywhere I go... :shifty:

Long answer short-it is impossible to tell. White spotted ancistrus come from all over the blackwater streams of brazil, and you will probably never get an exact locality (which is the decisive factor for most of these identifications) of capture for any individual, thus, the actual "L"...

Assuming the food is not overly processed, the hemicellulose necessary for nutrition in certain genera (mike has listed them correctly-all other animals use it only as a source of dietary fibre-even then, usually unintentionally due to grazing practices) should still be in there, which would...