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dominicolas

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Im buying this guy tomorrow. It's not a very good pic but can you identify it. I kind of asumed it was just your run-of-the-mill pleco but I'm just now finding out there are like over 200 so if I could get the name that would be great. The seller says it's 3 inches now "and growing fast", but the date on the picture is a month ago. I havn't seen it in person so you know as much as I do.

I can probably put up some more pictures tomorrow.

I'm buying it for $5 and it comes with pleco food and water conditioner. Is that a good deal? I talked the seller down from $20 so I'm pretty happy. She said that her cousin bought it for $15.

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I/m sure Davo or Wyldfya will be along to officially ID, but from pic it looks like a common to me.
 
Cant really tell from that picture, but sure looks like one of the 'Common' species. Could be a P. Pardalis for sure.

As long as you have space for a baby monster pleco, then no problem :D

They are nothing exotic or expensive, but they are a prefectly good monster fish, and whats $5 these days.

Ian
 
Most likely a common. Mabye a Leopard pleco? Hard to tell from the photo.
 
Get a better shot. From the photo, I'd say a Pterygoplichthys species, but I'd lean away from paradalis, as it doesn't have the defining lines along the side of the dorsal.
 
I got the fish. The water it was in was some of the worst i've ever seen. It was in a little goldfish bowl with no filtration and it smelled like @$$. Odly enough the fish looked OK. I hurried to get it into my tank (120 gal) though so I didn't stop to get great pictures.

I snapped a couple pics with my camera, but the flash is broken. My sister has a better one that I was going to use, but she wasn't here. Anyway, with the broken flash this is the best I could get. The shutter has to stay open longer and the pictures come out blurry.

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woodchomper;1911530;1911530 said:
How on earth can you tell that from this photo?
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Better question: How can you pinpoint that it is a Pterygoplichthys pardalis, without seeing any of the marking? From the photo, I cannot see any stripes that are a defining part of the P. pardalis. Of the 14 species of Pterygoplichthys, many of which are sold as 'common' plecos, you can discern which species it is from that photo?
 
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