Gibbiceps is this true
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Show me the light and I will believe. But I want pictures first!
This is the first I have heard of a 3ft pleco. I have only heard of them growing to a maximum of 2ft in the past. Very clever picture there btw GER1023.
Thanks for the compliments on the pic I made. its a abnormal 3' babby gibby. LOL. Found this info on another sight.
"Genus Glyptoperichthys, Liposarcus, Pterygoplichthys, Sailfin Giants among the Loricariids:
Two species of rather larger "plecostomus" are bred and reared in large quantities for the aquarium trade, pond-techniques perfected at farms in Florida. Liposarcus anisitsi (Eigenmann & Kennedy 1903) is the Snow King Pleco (formerly of the genus Pterygoplichthys), to seventeen inches in length (thirty inches according to Burgess 1989), and the Leopard Pleco, Glyptoperichthys gibbiceps (Kner 1854) (formerly Pterygoplichthys gibbiceps), at about twenty inches maximum. Still these larger aquariums barely begin to measure up to some of the truly big loricariid species. Some approach three feet in length, not a misprint."
"Genus Glyptoperichthys, Liposarcus, Pterygoplichthys, Sailfin Giants among the Loricariids:
Two species of rather larger "plecostomus" are bred and reared in large quantities for the aquarium trade, pond-techniques perfected at farms in Florida. Liposarcus anisitsi (Eigenmann & Kennedy 1903) is the Snow King Pleco (formerly of the genus Pterygoplichthys), to seventeen inches in length (thirty inches according to Burgess 1989), and the Leopard Pleco, Glyptoperichthys gibbiceps (Kner 1854) (formerly Pterygoplichthys gibbiceps), at about twenty inches maximum. Still these larger aquariums barely begin to measure up to some of the truly big loricariid species. Some approach three feet in length, not a misprint."
See even they say only max out at 20" that other plecos reach 3' but not my gibby no Siry bob. They bumped there shnogan (SHNOGAN slang word for head) when they put it could get 3'.
