Royal pleco...Whats the difference?

[Fish Room Plus]

Have some large royal plecos comming in. What are the differences between
royal
watermelon
thunder
spotted
broken line(scrible)
No L#, just royal Sp.on order
Thanks

 

[WyldFya]

Send it to me and I'll tell you which one you have.

Royal is a term for all of the different species of panaque with a basic color pattern.

The rest depend on who you talk to, and what the distributor/importer wants to call them.

 

[Fish Room Plus]

just 2 listings
royal 7-8"
royal sp 7-8"
the sp. is 3x the price, so i ordered the sp. Out of Columbia
I am no pleco guy, so i dont know...............

 

[lymiq]

royal is a common name for several L-number species in the panaque group with similar body shape and pattern... different regions have royals of slight different patterns/colors ...some exotic ones are from the orinoco .. spotted will fetch higher price though i doubt 3x at retail ... picture will get a better id than common names i'm afraid ...

 

[Fish Room Plus]

There comming from the same region as the Marble Motoro's, Will have pictures up sunday night. They eat veggies, right?

 

[rook45]

Zucchini, black worms, driftwood, ect

 

[T time]

the difference is slight variations in fish collected in different locations.

 

[woodchomper]

The easiest answer to the orignal question is collection point.

Probably therefore all different species of fish.

 

[lymiq]

There comming from the same region as the Marble Motoro's, Will have pictures up sunday night. They eat veggies, right?

driftwood is a must ... soft decay is even better ... everything else they will touch once they are established

 

[BigJ]

I'm going to need some of these!