What kind of pleco is this?

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AnnieExplosion5938
 
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What kind of pleco is this?

by AnnieExplosion5938

I just got a new pleco and I can't figure out what kind it is.
He (or she) is 10" long now and I'm told 2 years old. Creamy
coloured as you can see from the picure. Any ideas? I'm thinking
either albino common pleco or albino chocolate, but I know
nothing about identifying. Help?

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r201 ... C_4136.jpg


seankh
 
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by seankh

looks like it just a regular albino pleco to me. i cant see the front of it but im doubting its a bushinose pleco.


gumbii
 
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by gumbii

chocolate pleco... but i can't tell what genus esacly... can you take him out of the water... they life thier dorsal fins and open up thier tail fins... i need to see how the tail and how many spines it has on it's dorsal... it doesn't look like an ancistrus type... it has no barbs on his cheeks...


AnnieExplosion5938
 
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by AnnieExplosion5938

I don't want to get him out of the water for two reasons, 1 he was out twice yesterday and transported and 2 it's really hard to catch him in particular. He did display his fins for a few seconds and his tail fin is split (I think that's the word) and his dorsal goes pretty far back and is very spikey.


gumbii
 
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by gumbii

sounds like a chocolate trinidad... but usually LFS carry pterygoplichthys scrophus... i think i spelled it right... lol... but they don't usually have spikey doral fins...

they do have lyretails though...

What kind of pleco is this?

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