orange pleco?

[longhorn13]

there is a pleco in a show tank in an lfs here that is a bright orange color and one of the employees said it was a "gold pleco, very expensive". i can't find any info on a "gold pleco" and can not figure out what it is. it is a solid orange color, no spots at all. could it be an albino just with great coloring?

 

[SirMinion]

Could be a number of things.

• It could simply be an albino (orange) or leutino (dark orange with pale spots) common pleco, which are quite common and not at all expensive.
• Or it could be an L144 (Black-eyed golden ancistrus).. but that's a bristlenose and quite small
• Another (unlikely) option is that it's the super-rare all gold colour morph of the Sunshine Plec Scobiancistrus auraetus L014
• Then there's L024 Pseudacanthicus cf. serratus which lookes like a scarlet pleco, but is orange all over and gets seriously huge.

My money's on an albino common as all the others except the L144 are rarely, if ever exported from South America.

 

[longhorn13]

ok, i just looked at pictures and it's not a color morph of the L024, it doesn't have the spines all over it. it wasn't a bristlenose (well, i guess it could have been a female), but it wasn't anything like that coloration. it's not the albino orange-ish color, it is a bright orange like nothing i've seen before (in a pleco)

the guy said it was ordered mistakenly or sent by mistake or something like that, but i doubt a distributer would accidentally send a valuable fish.

i really have no idea what it is

 

[Crookster]

Do you know what they feeed it, I've been told bristle noses go orange if you feed them turnip.

 

[SirMinion]

I really have no idea what it is

Can you get a photo?

I'm intrigued!

 

[longhorn13]

i wish i could, i don't have a digital camera, but i'm planning on trying to get one soon. do you have any pics of the gold color morph of the L014?