so I was sold this guy as a “Bristlenose pleco” and I’m starting to doubt that (or getting paranoid maybe). I’ve had him since October and he’s gotten 4 inches (pic included) I know bns can get 4-5 inches it was just so fast I’m worried he’s a sailfin or god forbid a common. I really love him and would hate if he outgrew the tank cause I cannot afford the care for a large pleco (hence why I bought what I thought was a bn). he also has no bristles, but he could very well be a female for all I know
Posted by No_Essay2291
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Due to the tiger stripes on the face, looks like a common pleco to me.
Even bristlenose females have more of a spotted pattern and flatter body.
Not a bristlenose.
Looks like either Hypostomus Pleco or the Snow King Pleco.
Not a bristle nose that’s for sure. But that’s where my knowledge ends.
Don’t think it’s a bristlenose. Looks like a common pleco to me
Absolutely sends me when people hold plecos this way
It’s never hypostomus plecostomus, or common pleco. This is probably a sailfin pleco, or at least belonging to the genus Pterygoplichthys.
For starters, don’t take him out of his tank, are you trying to kill it?
Maybe an l306 but I doubt it
This is a sail fin pleco Pterygoplichtys gibbiceps, and it will grow to be around 20 inches
A Sailfin pleco?
1 fish equipped in offhand
Def not a bristlenose. Some kind of common plec. So unfair that the shop is selling animals to people who might not be able to properly care for them when they grow. PS they like to live in water ;P