(Leporacanthicus galaxias)

[Bethany]

I bought this guy about a month ago from a pretty knowledgable guy at 6.99 sold as a bushynose pleco.

But looks like a Leporacanthicus galaxias

 

[Frostyone]

anyway of getting a closer shot of him? Does your camera have a Macro mode feature? It'll help.

 

[Kolossus]

Check to see if it has large teeth in the upper jaw. Also check for a round lower lip and fleshy tentacles on the upper lip. If this is the case, you might have Leporacanthicus galaxias. But from the picture, IMO it doesn't appear that you do. Clearer/closer pictures would help.

 

[Bethany]

mouth shot

 

[Bethany]

a few more

 

[Bethany]

if not, what could he be? doesn't look like a bushynose, my boyfriend has one, solid gray/black and crazy tentacles in the mouth

 

[Bethany]

juvie Ancistrus? [thus still a bushy?]

 

[Terrorblade90]

I think it is a bushynose, he hasn't the mouth of a Leporacanthicus.

 

[Bethany]

when do the bristles develop?

 

[Kolossus]

juvie Ancistrus? [thus still a bushy?]

I think you're right. IMO, its a female snowflake (Ancistrus sp.). The females won't have the bushynose like the males.