Both kinds of blue eye (suttoni & cochilodon) Panuque

[Recumbent]

I picked up both a suttoni & cochilodon today. Right now the eye is much more blue on the smaller suttonorum than the larger cochiloderm.

 

[CarvinSigX]

Jealous? Why yes. Yes I am! I couldn't afford them, that's for sure.

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[in2cichlids]

How did you find a smaller a blue eye? I would love to start off with a smaller one of them. Tell me Your secrets! Nice looking plecos! Great pick up

 

[Poklei]

how much was that

 

[Recumbent]

More than I like to think about. At least the ending of the ban is making them more available and a little cheaper. I hope next year availability increases further (LDA105 etc) and prices drop further.

 

[Copp81]

Very nice I love my blue eyes nice pick up!


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[matubula]

They're great looking fish and I've found similar with the prices, starting to get more reasonable now. I think you have the ID the wrong way round, the smaller one is Panaque cochliodon and the larger is Panaque suttonorum.

 

[Recumbent]

Thanks Matubula. I'm new to blue eyes and there is a lot of conflicting information out there this agrees with you:

Let say I name these so-called "P. suttonorum" as BES and a true P. cochliodon as BEC.

Fm a layman point of view and with some photos comparison, here are a few of my observations

BES
grey in color
high head profile - looks alittle like LDA65
large tail proportion as compared to BEC
even a young fish has distinctive rows of spikes by the side

The so called "Panaque suttonorum"
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BEC
typically darker to jet black in color
lower head profile
do not exhibit row of spikes by the side
a much smaller fish

I hope I didn't confuse anyone.

 

[knobhill]

Lucky! I had one like that about 20 years ago. It was $30. Those were the days....


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[mengyone]

way too awesome!