Id Please For These Two.

[rubberdubber]

I was given these two a couple of months ago and have not manged to get an ID for them.
Any help please. the grey spotty one has what I would call a flat appearance and normal D shaped tail, the dark one with gold stripes has a lovely long tail with two thin whips each nearly the same length as the body.

 

[randallhart]

Your first pleco looks like a gold banded to me.

http/animal.discovery.com/guides/fish/fr...ldbandpeck.html

the second looks like a female bristlenose.

 

[rubberdubber]

Your first pleco looks like a gold banded to me.

[URL="http/animal.discovery.com/guides/fish/fr...ldbandpeck.html"]http/animal.discovery.com/guides/fish/fr...ldbandpeck.html[/URL]

the second looks like a female bristlenose.

Thank you for that.

The second one, it hasn't actually got bristles on its nose, would that be right if its a female?

 

[randallhart]

yep. no bristles=female bristlenose. They either have no bristles or very small ones.

 

[thegeeman]

The first one is L204 Flash Panaque
http/www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/speci...?species_id=126

The other one is a Bristlenose and depending on the size it looks like a female


thegeeman

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

The first one is L204 Flash Panaque
<a href="http/www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/speci...?species_id=126" target="_blank">http/www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/speci...?species_id=126</a>

The other one is a Bristlenose and depending on the size it looks like a female


thegeeman

I agree .

 

[smithrc]

wow - those are some nice pics

looks like a male L204 and a female Ancistrus sp3. (common Bristle nose)

 

[freerunner416]

Absolutely fantastic pics!!! wish i could get my plecs to pose like that!! Are they glamour plecs???

 

[Chuka1212]

I wish people would give me plecs! And I would agree with the previous ID's, though I'm no pleco expert.

 

[rubberdubber]

Absolutely fantastic pics!!! wish i could get my plecs to pose like that!! Are they glamour plecs???

I did have to wait for them to appear so thats why I used the cucumber to brib them, they are just like kids!!!


Thank you to everyones answers, not being an expert I was finding so hard as many look so the same

 

[PlecMama]

Seriously, that first picture is *so* good, you can conjure up the feeling of that plec skin on your hands just looking at it. Beautiful detail.

Nice plecs too