ID on this one (L162?)

[arjan.sl]

I would like to know wich type of pleco this is. I gues after seeing pleco profiles that it is Panaqolus/Panaque maccus(L162,LDA22) But I'm not sure

I have 4 of them they are 4 or 5 cm at this time

other question, would they cross breed with ancistrus? (comon ancistrus? bristlenose) I had them seperated fro ancistrus, but smart guys managed to move together. I ask, because I found different coulors of fry (I think the fry is from ancistrus. I bought 20 little ancistrus (dark with spots last year) they where 1 cm then now they 4 to 6 cm. The fry i found is dark with spots and stripes and some are just yellow or white.
I gues the little ancistrus I bought had mixed parents (dark / albino / yellow) ??

 

[bigbird]

i also agree that they are L162 . They will need to grow a little more. Have fun with them and keep everything crossed so they will breed for you. good luck cheers jk :thumbup:

 

[arjan.sl]

This is 1 of the older fry my girlfriend found. I'm not home now, I'm at work. My girlfriend took the pictures and I don't have more or better pictures now.

The other fry (really little) she showed me on I phone. There was some really yellow and a few where white, most of them dark and like the one picture. I thought it's strange so many different colours The parents (ancistrus bristlenose) are dark with grey/white spots

 

[Brengun]

The maccus will not crossbreed with the ancistrus so you're save there. They both however do like to gnaw on wood as part of their diets.

 

[arjan.sl]

Thanks, Yes There is wood in the other tank but they choose to move to the other side, where is not wood at the moment. I will bring more wood when I come home.
I have 3 tanks on a rack 3 times 250cm. (outside, in the garden) all this system is conected to each other by overflow and it all is filtered in a sump (part of the down tank) there is 2 pumps in the sump pumping the water around (up again)
Little fish sometimes move and can even go to other tanks or filter through overflow.
First I did not have wood (because they say it's not good for tanganyika-fish) but a little wood on this big amount of water with good filtering and continue water change does not affect the waterquality. Water here is really hard

 

[arjan.sl]

Here's 2 pictures of my tanks outside (during the building) Now it's all finnished and there is 3 rows of 250cm long tanks (filter is down in the right)
In the beginning the water got green because of a lot of sunlight
(I bought uv filter / not using it all the time) Sometimes I have some algue green threads (i think because of hard water)
The whole system runs only for half a year and it works great. Only need some finishing touch and to fix some little problems that showed up while running. Things always can be done better.