It looks really close to a L052 Butterfly Pleco. Though seems to be red in tone and a bit bigger stripes. This simply could be a very young fish.
20170110_l052_butterfly_pleco-dekeyseria_sp-233025.jpg

Hi Pniko2443,
Your fish is not a butterfly. Yours resembles Panaqolus maccus .

Cheers, Eric ...

catfishchaos wrote: 15 Jan 2017, 19:23 I agree with Bekateen- That is

Panaqolus maccus

, Definetely not

Dekeyseria sp(l052)

.

I really hope you are wrong on this one. Though he or she does portray similar traits of the clown I do own except the body armor is very different.

It looks really close to a L052 Butterfly Pleco. Though seems to be red in tone and a bit bigger stripes. This simply could be a very young fish.
20170110_l052_butterfly_pleco-dekeyseria_sp-233025.jpg


He is actually very young. According to the lady at the store at most a month after the ...

It looks really close to a L052 Butterfly Pleco. Though seems to be red in tone and a bit bigger stripes. This simply could be a very young fish.

I am passionate about plecos. I have spent somewhere around several days of time by now looking over the many species to eventually own. However I am kind of stumped as 2 are commonly misidentified. I believe I own L015 Candy Stripe Pleco and a L448 Clown Pleco. Often as we are all likely aware ...