Picked up an L200 this evening

[IanB]

Snapped a couple of quick pics before releasing him (good job really, only caught a couple of glimpses since.. lol)

Bought him from an ad on here..

http://www.plecoplanet.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12764

 

[bigbird]

wow stunning indeed, thanks for taking the photos and sharing...cheers jk :thumbup:

 

[IanB]

Cheers bud.. he's more lemony than he looks in the pic, and one of the Wifes favourite pleco's.. looking forward to (more plecs and) some decent pics of him in his new environment...

 

[Hypanaddict]

Nice pick up Ian :thumbup:

 

[Stan]

nice pickup! I love the 200s:thumbup:

 

[scatz]

nice healthy looking fish, good price too looking at the ads.
Nice pick up

 

[zeebo]

:clap: :yes: :thumbup:

georgie

 

[FF MkII]

The colour reminds me of a hi fin

 

[IanB]

Cheers guys..

This one was a lot more lemony than the rest (I chose him primarily because he'd been living in a planted tank and hadn't scoffed or dug 'em up..), the colour was a welcome bonus :thumbup:

My son decided his name is Charlie (could've been a whole lot worse, we have a 6' Swiss Cheese plant called Keith)..

Saw a couple of flashes of tail fin before bed last night.. he's totally disappeared this morning though.

 

[jamous91]

lovely fish

 

[Mooo]

Very nice, thanks for sharing )

 

[rickyjjuk]

Very nice phantom was it one of the bigger ones?

 

[IanB]

Very nice phantom was it one of the bigger ones?

No mate.. twas a littlun.. those bigger ones are lovely though!!. :thumbup:

He's settled into the back of a piece of wood and we get treated to the occasional appearance of a tail fin.

And one of the dogs stole (and ate) all my algae wafers :wb:

 

[Mooo]

lol My dogs love my fish food, specially the waffers, lol I have two dogs sitting waiting for me to drop some, when I feed up lol...they usually get their wish too :whistle: lol

 

[IanB]

This little s**t opened the cupboard... he steals my GH & KH test kits too..

 

[zeebo]

lol My dogs love my fish food, specially the waffers, lol I have two dogs sitting waiting for me to drop some, when I feed up lol...they usually get their wish too :whistle: lol[/QUOTE

mine too:lol:

 

[IanB]

Quick q...

I guess he's about 4" long now (minus tailfin), if he were a 'hi-fin', how tall would the dorsal be?

Watching him zoom about this afternoon it looks to be a good 1.5", possibly a tad more, when it's fully erect..

Are there any other identifying features?

It doesn't make any difference to him in our care, he's going nowhere.. but it'd be nice to know exactly what we have :thumbup:

 

[zeebo]

oh, he's a beauty for sure ,nice buy !

doggies love fish wafers ,yep, mine too, so you can start your new L200 on zucchini (skin on) as they are very similar to the blue phantoms , and mine love the skin. Also, green bell pepper , red bell pepper favs also.

good luck with him :thumbup:

Georgie

 

[scatz]

if it is a hi fin, there will be a small membrane between the dorsal and adipose fins, there aren't many other difining factors. The Dorsal will be taller on a hi fin, but its not a massive difference and not easy to tell that way unless you see a hi and low fin next to each other

 

[IanB]

Will see if I can grab a look if he pops out later..

So far he has refused cucumber, courgette (zucchini), sweet potato and mango. Got some bell pepper in the fridge, going to have a bash with that.

He has munched on bogwood, peas (defrosted, raw, shelled), algae wafers, shrimp and mussel though. I (think I) know too much of the meaty stuff isn't good for him but it's part of the diet for the rest of the inmates. Not easy to stop him from having a bash at it..