Unidentified black and yellow striped pleco

[thefredpit]

I was at my LFS today that usually has a large selection of L number plecos so are pretty knowledgeable well they had a unidentified striped pleco they didn't know what type and neither did their importer so I got him pretty cheap and put him in a tank that gets all types of food until I can figure out what he is


it is hard to see in the picture but he does have a lyre tail

 

[krichardson]

Looks like some kind of peckoltia.

 

[thefredpit]

I was able to get an in tank photo he doesn't seem shy at all even with plenty of hiding places and caves he is staying out in the open =)

 

[thefredpit]

Looks like some kind of peckoltia.

I just went through every peckoltia on planet catfish and while some looked similar either their snouts were to stubby, their patterns just weren't right, or they didn't have lyre tails. The closest I found were L477 and Peckoltia sp. `RIO PARU`

 

[thefredpit]

I sent a picture to a friend that breeds multiple types of striped plecos and has been breeding numerous types of fancy plecos for the 5 years I have known him and he believes it is most likely a Panaqolus species and looks most like an L425

https://www.planetcatfish.com/common/species.php?species_id=2293

I definitely agree on being a Panaqolus and possibly the L425

 

[Warborg]

Looks similar to a Tiger pleco

 

[thefredpit]

Which tiger pleco?

Iquitos Tiger Pleco
king tiger pleco
Prince Tiger Pleco
tiger ''peckoltia''
Magdalena Tiger Chaetostoma

 

[Warborg]

Maybe L398

https://www.planetcatfish.com/common/species.php?species_id=1848

 

[Warborg]

Which tiger pleco?

Iquitos Tiger Pleco
king tiger pleco
Prince Tiger Pleco
tiger ''peckoltia''
Magdalena Tiger Chaetostoma

It was normally called just tiger pleco, I had one back in the early 90's. It was a peckoltia back then but it may have gotten upgraded to panaque like the clown. I'm looking into it more but may have to stop for awhile.

 

[thefredpit]

Maybe L398

https://www.planetcatfish.com/common/species.php?species_id=1848

The the stripes on the L398 have equal proportions between black and yellow whereas this fish has much thinner yellow lines than their black ones and much more yellow lines than the L398. Also in the pictures of the L398(except picture 4) the nose seems more blunted