Love This Pleco

[Jamie87]

Anyone know what kind this is?

http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_DWGkEsJ-k

 

[orange shark]

that'd be a zebra plec

EDIT: well i hope it is or i'll look like a right fool

 

[JenCliBee]

yeh it's a type of zebra plec i would have said!!!! but not ya usual 1 that every 1 seems 2 have u mite find it very hard 2 find these 1's

so beuatiful tho.


jen

 

[Jamie87]

yeh it's a type of zebra plec i would have said!!!! but not ya usual 1 that every 1 seems 2 have u mite find it very hard 2 find these 1's

so beuatiful tho.


jen

yeah, I love zebra plecs.. but never have seen one like this.

 

[dnn3]

they have one at my lfs but he's $38.seems a little pricey to me.

 

[Corleone]

There's a couple species of "false" zebra plecs. I've seen ones about like this sold in my area as scribleline plecs.

dnn3: $38 is a bargain for a zebra plec from what I've seen. I settled for a bristlenose instead because the scribleline I mentioned would have cost me $50, and a regular zebra plec would have been a $120 special order.

Edit: Noticed somebody in the Youtube comment section posted this:

A L333 genus is Hypancistrus. If you look carefully at the video you will see that this pleco has a "tooth" in its mouth. This means that its genus is Leporacanthicus! All the plecos in the Leporacanthicus genus are easy to identify for they all have a "tooth" in their mouth including L240, L091, etc...

Aren't zebras Hypancistrus? Though Planetcatfish doesn't have anything in Leporacanthicus that looks like this.

 

[dnn3]

yeah,the guy at my lfs named off some rally expensive ones and he named off one(i can't remember which one)that was like $500.

 

[orange shark]

$38 for a zebra plec is amazing, theyre about £100 here which is about $200!

 

[shelaghfishface]

never mind the plec, i love the oscar in your sig

 

[Jamie87]

Thank you =]

He is pretty amazing.

I gotta get new/more recent pics of him on here tho.