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Hi folks, new here to the club, thus far, I love this place !!
About a month ago, I picked up 2 plecs' listed as rubbernoses, but these have striking resemblences to the chubby plecos. I a bit stumped, could anyone help/advise please....Thank you !!http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee52/ironhand74/fishthings019_720x480.jpg
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It's important to note that these two species have very similar body shape (wile small) when viewed looking down on them from above.

Without a better pic I can't say 100% for sure what you have. Can you try to get a better side view pic?

From what I can see I would have to guess that it is a spotted bull dog/rubber nose pleco.
http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/species.php?species_id=318

I don't think it's a chubby. Most chubbies when first imported are orange or patch work in coloration. Then changing to the darker color you can see in the pics. chubbies are a very desired and rare species so they fetch a very high price. Last time I saw one available in the US asking price was over 400 USD.
http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/species.php?species_id=82

Time will tell you for sure what you have as the chubby gets much larger than the rubber. The good news is they both have similar care and diet requirements.

Present: L183, L114, L330, LDA33, L059, L340, L136, L399, Clown, Whip Tail

Past: L001, L239, L200, L134, L030, L110, L204, L260, LDA08, L226, Ancistrs sp3 albino as well as calico, L187 (sp2), Common Hypostomus punctatus

I'm thinking that your right, the mouth size and shape just don't match that of a chubby. the best I can locate on the web is "striped rubber-nose" unfortunatly, the best pics I can find are *exact to mine, shape coloration, mouth, no.of fin rays ect. the site is lets say not english friendly lol.
been looking through planetcatfish and fishbase
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.drpez.org/albums/Chaetostoma/chaetostoma-thomsoni.highlight.jpg&imgrefurl=http://atlas.drpez.org/Loricariidae&h=113&w=150&sz=10&hl=en&start=6&tbnid=YObAh4J1RS5kOM:&tbnh=72&tbnw=96&prev=/images%3Fq%3D%2B%2522Chaetostoma%2Bthomsoni%2522%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG
the thing that makes it difficult to get these fellers "on film" they seem more nocturnal, and the pesky grouamis' keep getting in the way, thier such hams !! hehe

had to return to that site to jot down the name of the critter, turns out the site is out of Venezeula, the name given is Cordylancistrus Perijae... a mouthfull in any language lol, gonna look this up on PCF and FB,
Thanks A million !!!

Looks to be a L-187 variant. Cordylancistrus have plated rostral regions, for future reference.I have also never heard of sp. "Perijae". It is possible, though, as cordylancistrus are in the same group as chaetostoma. Depending on who you talk to, some species may have rostral odontodes, too.

Highly possible...some features of a rubbernose, some that of the L-187, anywho, they've been kept for almost 2 months now, growing nicely, appear to be healthy, primarily nocturnal, eat nothing but bogwood and algae on the wood (good thing I had 30 lbs and 5 different types for variety)and they eat like a horse !!!
time will tell, let the physical features mature a bit, maybe set up a species tank for closer behavioral observation, and drop in a post of any interesting events or updates.
Thanks again Aqua-D, Lifenoodles !!

All you really need to know is that they prefer it on the subtropical side, say, 76ish degrees F, regardless of what genera of fish it belongs to, since both are montane stream dwellers