Picked this cat up today for a nice price, please ID for me.

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Speaking of which, in one of my books I have a picture of a L081 Gold nugget with an individual mutation of a hifin. The point of the dorsal is elongated like a whisp and is the bright yellow coloration. Kind of looks like this thing went super saiyan.
 
Ok, so I have gotten many opinions, and it is almost definitely a butterfly pleco. The only thing is, he hides almost directly under a flower pot, and I neder see him move. Is this a bad thing? I would guess he comes out at night and swims around, but I haven't seen him shift positions in almost 2 weeks. He has certainly gotten me interested in more plecos, but is this normal behavior? I'm thinking of getting moonlights so I can try and see it swim...
 
That is very common behavior for most plecos. Species like this, if seen regularly out in the open, generally mean that you aren't feeding enough, and they are coming out even in the day to look for food. Plecos are for the most part nocturnal.

As to a moonlight, I would go with an R2 Moonlight. Just search for them online, they are awesome, and are LED. I have 2 on my 135, and my plecos come out of the wood work, literally, when I turn them on.
 
No scanner, I have tried to find it online, and it is nowhere. I'll work on trying to find a place I can scan it in with, or a camera to take a picture of a picture with.
 
Here you go. This is the picture from the Aqualog book "Loricariidae all L-Numbers", by Erwin Schraml and Frank Schafer, of an L081 individual mutant, mentioned before. Without question this little guys price tag would be a considerable amount more than a "normal" L081 Gold nugget. He is a very young pleco, probably no more than 3". Sorry about the bad quality of the picture, I told you I would find a scanner, but not a good scanner.

L083 Mutation.jpg
 
There are many individual mutant in the book, and many are very interesting, from an L018 that head drops off like a clif, to the more and more common L200 Hifin.
 
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