FISH ID "VIEJA" SP.

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Legomypleco

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I bought this fish as a miscellaneous "Vieja" species. ( I know its not called Vieja anymore). ID PLEASE. Sorry for the bad pics, little bugger would not stay still.

Fish is aprox 1.5 - 2 inches




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Here is a young pair of breidhori to compare, around 3-4"
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female left
Their 1" fry
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Hybrid is my best guess too.
 
I'm sure it's a Paraneetropus breidohri. The color is accurate and the broken horizontal stripe is typical of juveniles. They will gradually lose it. Here's a pic of one of my males.
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It looks like some juvie heterospilus I'm growing out - purple at the throat and in the fins and the dark center line. But that face looks breidhori. In a tank of misc. Vieja its possible its a hybrid. I've also got some briedhori growouts at about 2.5 in and they are showing no color yet.

My vote is heterospilus or hybrid.
 
Heterospila are more round bodied, not long like that. I would say it definitely is Breidohri, but because Breidohri have more of a blunt nose and your pics look like yours come to more of a point, it kind of points me towards hybrid Breidohri / ............. also.

Good luck and put some size on it, it may become more obvious as it gets larger.
 
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