Peckoltia or panque ID

Only enemy of the state · Post by **Only enemy of the state** » 14 Aug 2006, 22:15

so i got a new catfish for you to give an ID on, its of a friend and was sold as an peckoltia vitattus

(which obviously should be vitatta) and its not an L080. I checked

i thought it is somesort of a peckoltia but a friend thinks is a sort of panaque,

so here are the pics, what do you all think?

Yann · Post by **Yann** » 14 Aug 2006, 22:34

HI!

This is a blind Panaque aff maccus
Blind because he lost his eye...at least the left one!!

Cheers
Yann

ginosanti · Post by **ginosanti** » 15 Aug 2006, 08:43

Yup, panaque maccus.

Looks strange without the eye!

Only enemy of the state · Post by **Only enemy of the state** » 15 Aug 2006, 11:19

ok tnx for the ID, and yeah its a blind one, lost both of his eyes. at least its taken care of properly, enough wood for him to chew on, same wood as i give my nigro's. and it the only pl*co in the tank, zo now fighting over the food.

tnx again on the ID, i can't be right all the time

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 15 Aug 2006, 11:27

Blind plecos often have different colours than the seeing ones, since the blind ones can't "see" if it's light or dark, so they loose their "daytime/nighttime" colouration...

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Mats

Mike_Noren · Post by **Mike_Noren** » 15 Aug 2006, 12:15

Just out of curiosity... what happened to it? Apart from the missing eyes it's got scars like it's been captured in a gillnet...

moonlightnight · Post by **moonlightnight** » 15 Aug 2006, 12:50

hello everybody... I'm the owner of this fish. Yesterday when OEOTS asked me if he could put my question here I thought good idea... this night I figured I'd even better made myself a member ;)

thanks for the help so far. I'm a beginner in the aquarium business and sometimes do stupid things.

So with the buying of this panaque. I was looking in the shop and seeing this catfish almost the color of the sand... very special I thought... ones in my tank it was very quickly clear the poor thing had been completely overstressed... even only a few ours later he was already darkening. So what has happened to him... no idea, I just hope I'll be able to give him the proper care.

another question... I saw that yams are some favorite food, I'm not familiar with it, I know I can get it here, but do I have to cook it before giving?

sidguppy · Post by **sidguppy** » 15 Aug 2006, 13:52

don't feed too much protein.

The Clownpleco is a woodeater and a grazer. it can have stuff like shrimp-pieces or mussels, but most of its' diet should be vegetarian.

and bogwood is a MUST for this one to keep it healthy in the long run.
It's easy to take care for; a slice of weightdown cucumber, peas (frozen and thawed, not the tincan kind), pleco-tabs, spinache (also frozen and thawed), softleafed plants (P maccus loves to eat Echinodorus) and the occasional piece of unpeeled shrimp, bloodworm etc will keep it healthy.

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 15 Aug 2006, 13:59

Sidguppy has given some pretty good advice. For more details on how to prepare and use "supermarket" foods for Plecos in general, and herbivore/woodeater, look at my article (listed at the bottom of this post as "articles(1)").

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Mats

ginosanti · Post by **ginosanti** » 15 Aug 2006, 14:15

I feed mine yams (zoete aardappel

) raw. Most of my pleco's like it, but my maccus's love it! You can cook it shortly, but these guys can chew bits off a raw piece just fine.

moonlightnight · Post by **moonlightnight** » 15 Aug 2006, 18:07

thanks people for all the good advises...he's hanging on the window wright now. My latest new piece of wood already showing traces of chewing. And a slice of cucumber hanging in the tank wright now