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What type of pleco do I have2007-11-24 23:42:37

I have two of them. One is brown with dark brown dots. The other is light brown with dark brown stripes. Do these plecos get big and if so how long does it take for them to get to be over 10 inches. I have had them for about 9 months and they are both about 2 1/2 inches long. they are in a 20 Long tank.

Answers:

The one with stripes is most likely a clown pleco. Sometimes they get mixed in with the regular plecos. They don't get much larger than 6".

The brown one with dark brown spots is a common pleco. With proper care he will eventually reach 24", yes, 2 feet.

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1st one is a gold nugget or something like that. Not sue about the 2nd.

liveaquira.com might help, not sure spelling is right. drsfosersmith.com has the right link if that one doesnt work

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if you have picture, it would be great. The first one sounds like the common pleco. if they live long enough, they can get to be 14 inches. and the second one, isgoing to be 4-7 inches..

the stripped ones don't grow that big.

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Try looking at these sites. There are so many varieties of plecos, they all don't even names, go by L000 numbers.

http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/scate.

http://www.plecofanatics.com/

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www.planetcatfish.com has some wonderful information on thousands of catfish, including plecos, and is very helpful for identification purposes. Depending on what you mean by stripes (thin stripes or thicker bands) the second one could be a clown as some have suggested, or possibly even a tiger, but there are also many commons that are dark with thick, lighter colored bands. The first one is most likely a common. Clowns and tigers generally stay small, below 6", but commons reach massive sizes; there have been many reports of commons in home aquariums reaching sizes in excess of two feet long. Either way, they will most likely need tanks much larger than 20 gallons in the near future, for the large amounts of waste plecos in general produce.