What are these?

[tiffanyjayne]

I've got 9 in a tank, i was sold them all as 333's but then told they were 66's now i'm being told i have a mixture....i've looked in the booked, read on the net and i'm still stuck.

I've got individual images of each one if that helps.

 

[bigbird]

hard to tell, would post individual photos of each. Cheers jk :thumbup:

 

[tiffanyjayne]

i've taken 2 images of each pleco.

 

[Tener ds]

wow they look great,no idea what they are tho.

 

[Zebra Pleco]

Look very similar to my 333's

 

[bigbird]

i will be honest with you. Looking at the tails and patterns it does look like you have a mix, however nowadays with so many types of white black stipes around and possible mix breeding etc, it is a little hard to be 100% correct.
Why is the person who bought these off telling you this ? Have they also got a mix of adults in one tank ? sorry jk :thumbup:

 

[tiffanyjayne]

They are all under breeding age, i bought 2 as l333's from 2 different places and a group of 10 from a breeder who put them up as l333's, some have passed on, others have stayed small.

My breeding groups are kept in separate tanks.

My confusion came from someone who came over to look at the 134's i sold and said what are they, when i said l333's he laughed and said you've been robbed, there l066's.

They have forked tails like l066's but surely 3 separate sellers can't have mis sold fish?
The patterns vary one each one, some paler than others some with thicker banding but looking at my breeding group of l333's they also have forked tails and the patterns vary alot.The person i bought the group of 10 from only had bn's and '333's' in the tank, obviously he could of been mis sold the fish but as far as either of us are aware there is no cross breeding from other hypans.
Argh i'm confused :cry:
But thank you everyone for your help and comments, i guess there a tank of hypans.

 

[bigbird]

yup a tank of hypans indeed. with so many 66 and 333 and so many people confussed, i am sure somwhere maybe intermix fry occurred. Orig the forked tail was an indicator, but now even L333 have forked tail. I have 7 L333 breeding and they all look same but slightly different as well. cheers jk :thumbup:

 

[Zebra Pleco]

lol, I will have to post some photos of my L333's, there all different in a way, from colours to patterns to size and they all came from the same parents.

 

[FF MkII]

You havent been "robbed". Both L333 and L66 are equally as nice and about the same price. Its not like you paid L46 prices and they turn out to be L66, then you would have been somewhat mis-sold.

 

[Jo Crane]

This may help a little they are very obviously different by a glance at the tail the L333 have a much more stumpy tail the L66 have a forked tail as you can see from my adults below

L333

L66

 

[tiffanyjayne]

I don't personally feel robbed, 1 cost me £15 the rest were £6 each...they could be common bn's and i'd be happy with it.

I guess i asked more because if they did breed i wouldn't want to mis-label them once sellable but i can see any decent hypan buyer is happy with the fact they are hypans not just what L number they come under in a book.

Thanks guys for all your help, i've just spotted 15 wrigglers in with my 333 breeding group so it looks like i'll have more 'hypans' to add to my list of who knows what.

 

[tiffanyjayne]

Jozebs, at what point does the tail become more noticable forked? my breeding group have forked tails but yours look considerably longer than any i've ever seen.

 

[Zebra Pleco]

oh noooooooo, I thought I had 8 L333's but all my tails are forked

 

[tiffanyjayne]

These are 2 of the adults from my breeding group one is covered in a network patteren the other thick lines....it's wierd how two of the same fish can look so different.