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	yellow seam pleco??
bayara Hobbyist Posts: 139 Kudos: 117 Votes: 14 Registered: 30-Aug-2004	a few weeks back my lfs brought in a yellow seam pleco special for some guy - it was pretty expensive: i think something like $120 for a 3" pleco (then again - up here the fish are pretty much always overpriced...) it looked really cool! but i tried to find info on planetcatfish about it and can't find anything (i even went through all the L- numbers and didn't find one that looked similar...) anyone ever seen these and can give me some info about them? Last edited by bayara at 25-Oct-2004 23:34
Posted 26-Jan-2006 12:06
Cup_of_Lifenoodles Fish Guru Posts: 2755 Kudos: 1957 Votes: 30 Registered: 09-Sep-2004	Gold seams, IIRC, are either 106, 122, or some peckolita sp which I don't know the L number of off the top of my head. Supposedly they are quite easy to wean onto prepared foods, and will accept both meaty and vegetable matter. They sell them at my LFS for 25 bucks a piece, but I'm probably referring to a different species, then. Last edited by Cup_of_Lifenoodles at 25-Oct-2004 23:49
Posted 26-Jan-2006 12:06
bayara Hobbyist Posts: 139 Kudos: 117 Votes: 14 Registered: 30-Aug-2004	hmmm... first off... when did they change the planet catfish website?!?! i can't find a thing in there!!! anyway after much searching, i took a look at all the peckolita species they have listed, as well as L106 and L122 and none of them look like the fish i saw... this guy was a really dark brown, almost black with really thin bright yellow stripes all over his body (bright like the gold nugget pleco is... they had one of those in there at the same time...)
Posted 26-Jan-2006 12:06
Cup_of_Lifenoodles Fish Guru Posts: 2755 Kudos: 1957 Votes: 30 Registered: 09-Sep-2004	Try the hypancistrus genus--it has some plecs that match your description--but then again, there are MANY fish that match that description.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 12:06
bayara Hobbyist Posts: 139 Kudos: 117 Votes: 14 Registered: 30-Aug-2004	excellent thanks! it looked a lot like either L129 or L333 - but i'm leaning more toward L333. looks like L333 has some that have a more whitish colour than yellow - that's probably what threw me off, but it definately looked like this is the guy!
Posted 26-Jan-2006 12:06


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