Ok so instead of having multiple posts of my different fish I decided to take my time and make one long post with all the pictures here.
This is Pterygoplichthys weberi. On PlanetCatfish.com there said to get about 8”. If you look on there list under registered cat owner only 8 people have registered compared to P. gibbiceps who has 188 and P. pardalis having 197 registered owners. If you look for these on the internet you’ll notice there is little information on them and few pictures of them. That’s why I jumped on the opportunity to acquire one. I wanted two but they only had one left and only reason was because someone had went and picked them all up but one was hiding somewhere and well now that single pleco is mine. So here are two pictures of it. I got P. weberi on Thursday 9-23-2010 and is roughly 2”.
Picture of it’s back side.
Picture of it’s slightly sunken in belly. This will be fixed in due time.
Next is P. gibbiceps albino. Unlike the albino chocolate pleco aka P. pardalis the albino for of P. gibbiceps still shows spots on its fins. These can obtain a large size of 18” and can become territorial with there own species and other species that look similar to it. I got this albino and a normal P. gibbiceps. Both are roughly the same size. I got this albino on Wednesday 9-22-2010 and is about 3-4”.
Only a belly shot for now. Fin is broken I’m sure it will grow back with some time.
Now this fish I already own. Why do I want two??? Because I can and because I feel if I had provided a bigger tank my P. joselimaianus would be bigger then it is now. No my big P. joselimaianus isn’t a stunted form only on the small end of its growth range with is 7-9” but from what I’ve been told in rare cases it can get as big as P. gibbiceps. Only one picture of this guy also. Got this guy from the same place I got my albino P. gibbiceps from. Came in the same day as the albino P. gibbiceps as well 9-22-2010. Unlike the other two this one has no fin damage and has a nice plump belly.
Side shot of my P. joselimaianus
This pleco I’ve posted before on here. Just recently actually. There my baby L-144’s. These are of just one of them. I can only tell them apart because one never ever leaves the driftwood the other is rarely on the driftwood as you will see in my next three pictures. I believe there both going to end up being long finned L-144’s.
Baby in between the slot on the bubble stone.
Same baby with a full looking belly.
Belly shot again.
Now for my unknown pleco. This is not a Ptergoplichthys like my other pleco’s but rather Hypostomus. I have no idea which species it is but the best match I see so far is Hypostomus plecostomus. Although the person who sold this to me told me it belonged to his dad and that it had a L number and well H. plecostomus has no L number. So for now I just have it labeled under Hypostomus sp. Either way I was laying on my bed when I saw a photo opportunity and I went for it. This is what I got.
So so pretty. LOL
Last but certainly not least are not another one of my pleco’s but my prized Parachromis loisellei pair. These two have never bred but they seem to get along from time to time lol. Male is a real jerk at times. But yeah here are 4 pictures of the duo.
Female close up and personal.
Male profile shot. Love how his dorsal fins point is so threaded.
Male mug shot. Reminds me of my old Managua.
My P. loisellei pair. They look so happy. 5sec later male chased her under the driftwood lol.
This is Pterygoplichthys weberi. On PlanetCatfish.com there said to get about 8”. If you look on there list under registered cat owner only 8 people have registered compared to P. gibbiceps who has 188 and P. pardalis having 197 registered owners. If you look for these on the internet you’ll notice there is little information on them and few pictures of them. That’s why I jumped on the opportunity to acquire one. I wanted two but they only had one left and only reason was because someone had went and picked them all up but one was hiding somewhere and well now that single pleco is mine. So here are two pictures of it. I got P. weberi on Thursday 9-23-2010 and is roughly 2”.
Picture of it’s back side.
Picture of it’s slightly sunken in belly. This will be fixed in due time.
Next is P. gibbiceps albino. Unlike the albino chocolate pleco aka P. pardalis the albino for of P. gibbiceps still shows spots on its fins. These can obtain a large size of 18” and can become territorial with there own species and other species that look similar to it. I got this albino and a normal P. gibbiceps. Both are roughly the same size. I got this albino on Wednesday 9-22-2010 and is about 3-4”.
Only a belly shot for now. Fin is broken I’m sure it will grow back with some time.
Now this fish I already own. Why do I want two??? Because I can and because I feel if I had provided a bigger tank my P. joselimaianus would be bigger then it is now. No my big P. joselimaianus isn’t a stunted form only on the small end of its growth range with is 7-9” but from what I’ve been told in rare cases it can get as big as P. gibbiceps. Only one picture of this guy also. Got this guy from the same place I got my albino P. gibbiceps from. Came in the same day as the albino P. gibbiceps as well 9-22-2010. Unlike the other two this one has no fin damage and has a nice plump belly.
Side shot of my P. joselimaianus
This pleco I’ve posted before on here. Just recently actually. There my baby L-144’s. These are of just one of them. I can only tell them apart because one never ever leaves the driftwood the other is rarely on the driftwood as you will see in my next three pictures. I believe there both going to end up being long finned L-144’s.
Baby in between the slot on the bubble stone.
Same baby with a full looking belly.
Belly shot again.
Now for my unknown pleco. This is not a Ptergoplichthys like my other pleco’s but rather Hypostomus. I have no idea which species it is but the best match I see so far is Hypostomus plecostomus. Although the person who sold this to me told me it belonged to his dad and that it had a L number and well H. plecostomus has no L number. So for now I just have it labeled under Hypostomus sp. Either way I was laying on my bed when I saw a photo opportunity and I went for it. This is what I got.
So so pretty. LOL
Last but certainly not least are not another one of my pleco’s but my prized Parachromis loisellei pair. These two have never bred but they seem to get along from time to time lol. Male is a real jerk at times. But yeah here are 4 pictures of the duo.
Female close up and personal.
Male profile shot. Love how his dorsal fins point is so threaded.
Male mug shot. Reminds me of my old Managua.
My P. loisellei pair. They look so happy. 5sec later male chased her under the driftwood lol.
