orange spotted pleco ID

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lotuslady

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Hi everyone:
I picked up a very nice pleco. been searching all kind of websites to ID it. It does not want to be photographed, it moves very fast, have not been able to catch it on a picture yet.

It is deep black with small bright orange spots. Has a carved tail, very long tail, almost half its body length.
It is not shy but with 2 L134 and 2 very busy panaques it just likes to keep itself hidden in the crevices of driftwood. It comes out when the panaques are busy chewing their vegetables. But it really swims too fast for a picture.
Anyone know who this cute little number is?
 
Cant really tell from the description... Try looking on planetcatfish.com and tell us what species it looks like.
 
I got one that sounds like the same as yours. I bought it as a peach spot pleco about five years ago. Seems to stay small, under five inches. Lyre tail, cream/orange spots, black base. I would guess some sort of hypancistrus given the amount of time it stays on the wood and in crevices.
 
it is indeed an LDA31, peach spot pleco. he is doing fine, until I knew who he was I just put him on my general pleco treatment (a different fresh veggie every day and he has lots of woods and gets algae tablets).
he is beautiful!
 
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