Black and White L333 or L66?
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The wonderful Scribble Pleco.
With the amount of variants, hybrids & scattered imports about right now all you can say with any confidence is it is a lower Xingu Hypan
The L066 was a fish with a large eye and very forked tail and this fish seems to follow that description.
With the amount of variants, hybrids & scattered imports about right now all you can say with any confidence is it is a lower Xingu Hypan
The L066 was a fish with a large eye and very forked tail and this fish seems to follow that description.
I got 5 of them. I have a couple other groups that were real white like these but turned more yellow as they got older. Time will tell.
This Patten/ colour change is some thing I have spent a lot of time studying.
I have noticed in Hypans it’s very much related to food and water conditions.
I had a trio of Lower Xingu Hypans very much along the lines of L400/ L410.
I noticed that as I started feeding meaty food for conditioning they became darker with the silver background / base colour becoming almost white
If I feed a more vegetable based diet the silver returned and the brown / red Patten became much lighter.
Also as I increased the amount of tannin by adding almond leaves and alder cones this became more evident. I have observed this in several Lower Xingu type fish. As for my group of L184, s they seem to change Patten and colour just to confuse me.
I have noticed in Hypans it’s very much related to food and water conditions.
I had a trio of Lower Xingu Hypans very much along the lines of L400/ L410.
I noticed that as I started feeding meaty food for conditioning they became darker with the silver background / base colour becoming almost white
If I feed a more vegetable based diet the silver returned and the brown / red Patten became much lighter.
Also as I increased the amount of tannin by adding almond leaves and alder cones this became more evident. I have observed this in several Lower Xingu type fish. As for my group of L184, s they seem to change Patten and colour just to confuse me.
L333-Alenquer I have some of these same fish from Larry and know where he got them from. I have talked directly to the source...they came in as L333 Alenquer a few years back.
Your L333
My L333
My L066
Going on the tail, I would agree your fish are L333 and very nice too.
My L333
My L066
Going on the tail, I would agree your fish are L333 and very nice too.