Hybrid pleco? Is this possible?

CaitxSith

CaitxSith

A little too obsessed with neons.
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as my pleco is growing, (grew around 1 or 2cm so far and i bought him like, 1~2 months ago), i saw a distinct "clown pleco" type body pattern along with the common pleco pattern on his back... just that it's not black and white, just brown and white...

can a hybrid pleco be possible?

let's say the same characteristics of a common pleco, just that some other things (like growth pattern) is different...?

and my cellphone is like, dead and my camera takes 2 seconds for the shutter to go off.
 
plecos will make their body color darker or lighter to match their substrate. common plecos and clown plecos cannot breed with each other.
 
I find that unlikely in the extreme. The glofish were, I think, developed by a specific company for experimental purposes, measuring pollution or somesuch. Marketing them was an afterthought I believe. I can't see why any large corporation would make a pleco hybrid, for no reason that I can think of, and then sell it to a fish store under a different name.

I think that the most likely explanation is just the pleco changing its colour, as wataugachicken stated. By the way, you do realise that common plecos can get to a foot long right?
 
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Usually they have to be in the same genus, hybrids of hypansistrus have been reported. Common & clown are most likely too different, maybe you have something other than a common? There are many kinds of "plecos".
 
..maybe :D


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check the thread out...
 
I used to have a sailfin pleco who could change the light and dark areas within the pattern on its body which made it look like it was a whole new fish. I believe this was due to the substrate and where he was currently hanging out the most. I dont think that a true hybrid like you are thinking is likely or possible with them, but it is important to note (if I remember this correctly) that there are so many types and varieties that they use the L-numbering system. I think yours may just be 'morphing' like was brought up before, but who knows, maybe you have the one and only chemelon pleco (L12398042) in an aquarium! (ok, just kidding and that is all made up, including the number)
 
fishorama said:
Usually they have to be in the same genus.
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There are intergeneric cichlid hybrids on the market. Admittedly, cichlid taxonomy is still a little confused, and maybe some species are more closely related than we think. However, reptile hobbyists have been producing intergeneric hybrids for years (Pantherophis, Lampropeltis and Pituophis species can all interbreed). I see no reason to doubt the possibility — actually, the likelihood — of producing a broad spectrum of interspecific and intergeneric loricariid hybrids in captive conditions.
 
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