New Addition!

[CarvinSigX]

I was pretty much dead set on getting a Panaque, until I came across this one. After searching high and low for "rare" plecos in the St. Louis area, my wife and I decided to take a trip to Springfield. Low and behold, the home of Lincoln brought exactly what I wanted! The decision was tough considering they had a nice L191, but my wife pretty much made up my mind for me. Anyway, meet "Saphira" the beautiful L128. I gave $50 for it, but pickings are slim in my area.

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[lmt6600]

Thats a beauty. If you would have been closer up by me, you could get them at local club for about 35 to 40 for blue and can get as low as 20 for greens.
Feed 'em well and it will be worth it.

 

[in2cichlids]

Nice Pleco! It looks like a green phantom L200 to me though? In that photo it looks greenish? Phantoms are awesome plecos either way.

 

[lmt6600]

It does look like green phantom but sometimes my blue phantoms turns slightly greenish. The most common observation i have notice is that all of my greens only have dots about halfway to the tail and all of my blues have dots all the way to the tail. Any body ever notice this?

 

[lungfishlover]

there is an argument that green phantoms and blue phantoms are the same sp just from different locales giving them a different colour...

 

[CarvinSigX]

Yeah, I read that stuff on planet catfish. It's blue, but I think it was stressed out after an hour long drive home. It was clearly blue before we put it in the bag. I'll try getting another picture today.

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[CarvinSigX]

I'm guessing it's still stressed out because it's blue only 75% of the time. Time to step it up to 3 30% water changes a week.

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[tigerjace]

i'd say its a blue phantom based on the spotting. Blue phantoms have spotting all over their body extending all the way to the back tail where as green phantoms usually have it only on front half of the body. Rarely do green phantoms have spotting all over the body. I myself like blue over green, but in any event if you have a green its a high quality because of full spotting.

 

[CarvinSigX]

Like I said, it's clearly blue a majority of the time. It is hiding a lot, which I'd assume is the stress and acclimation process. So people have had blues that turn a dark green, but do greens ever turn blue? Would I be correct in assuming it's a low quality blue if it doesn't maintain it's color after a couple months? Thanks for all the help guys.

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