Pleco ID

[Casper2000]

Picked this 5" guy last week at my LFS for $7. He was labeled as a butterfly pleco but the butterflies I've seen don't look like this. Anyone know?

 

[big54bob]

Probaly a gibby

 

[Frostyone]

Probaly a gibby

 

[woodchomper]

if there ever was a fish that suggest Pterygoplichthys had been crossed it is that one, looks like a gibbiceps+pardalis cross imo

 

[cob201]

Hmmm, looks like a gibbiceps but the head patterning looks a little off, but deffo a pterygoplichthys species. The closest I can think of is this guy - http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/species.php?species_id=915.
Maybe they are starting to hybridize pterygoplichthys species now?
Conrad

 

[davo]

if there ever was a fish that suggest Pterygoplichthys had been crossed it is that one, looks like a gibbiceps+pardalis cross imo

There are crosses.

 

[dmopar74]

looks like a gibby, and im betting you bought it at a petco?

 

[Johny]

def not a butterfly...its a gibby

 

[T time]

They've been occuring in fish farms for a long while now.

 

[goodgene]

just a common fish.