Michigan Cichlid Association

General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: dexternovice on December 03, 2015, 08:19:46 PM

Title: Any clue on the species?
Post by: dexternovice on December 03, 2015, 08:19:46 PM

One of my son's brought this home for me. Apparently,  it outgrew his buddy's tank in under a month. I apologize for the quality of the pic, he's tough to catch motionless and in a place that I can see all of him. He has very pronounced spikes beginning behind his gill plate and running down his sides to the tail. There are several rows of them. In the five days that he's been here, that's the third color scheme that I've noticed.  The tail is very deeply forked and the dorsal is massive when displayed.  He's roughly five inches. Also, he seems to believe that he's either a bulldozer, mbuna, or a hands on landscape architect.

Thanks for any and all help.

Title: Re: Any clue on the species?
Post by: GrizzlysDad on December 05, 2015, 07:00:40 AM

Really hard to tell from the pic but from your description, including the way it's rearranging the landscape, it seems like Pterygoplichthys gibbiceps fits, aka Marble Sailfin Pleco.
If that is indeed what you have they get big and are quite messy, producing a lot of waste.

Title: Re: Any clue on the species?
Post by: dexternovice on December 05, 2015, 11:45:19 AM

Thank you sir.

Title: Re: Any clue on the species?
Post by: GrizzlysDad on December 05, 2015, 01:45:20 PM

Here's a link with info Dan.

http://www.planetcatfish.com/common/species.php?species_id=148

Title: Re: Any clue on the species?
Post by: dexternovice on December 05, 2015, 03:17:17 PM

Outstanding!  That's what he/she definitely appears to be. Thanks again Tony.

Title: Re: Any clue on the species?
Post by: GrizzlysDad on December 05, 2015, 04:06:16 PM

Anytime partner