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Which Otocinclus am I?
Posted: 11 Jan 2003, 03:52
by pSynderella
Which Otocinclus do you think this is? I can't decide
Posted: 11 Jan 2003, 04:32
by Silurus
One of the 13 or so species with a color pattern like that. These things are horribly difficult to identify (unless they are dead).
Heok Hee
Posted: 11 Jan 2003, 04:47
by pSynderella
LOL! I was hoping that just maybe I would have one of the identifiable ones! Oh well
Posted: 11 Jan 2003, 11:55
by philtre
pSynderella!
it looks like the little fella I posted! check it out!
http://forum.planetcatfish.com/viewtopic.php?t=164
don't you think ?
Posted: 11 Jan 2003, 13:37
by Jools
Like but not identical, look at the caudal fin. On one fish the black caudal blotch strays well onto the fin and in the other it does not. Also the back patterning looks different, but this can be very misleading as it changes with mood/conditioning. There are some other minor differences.
I've spent many hours trying to ID various
Otocinclus using external characteristics and it's very hard, usually impossible especially if you do not know what part of South America they came from.
The irony of all this is that the easiest to ID member of the genus (the zebra oto) is not described! (Yet).
Jools
Posted: 11 Jan 2003, 15:38
by pSynderella
LOL you'd think zebra otos would at least have a discription. Anyways, about the caudal fin. That's why I'm have trouble identifying. I didn't see any with this particular pattern in the cat-elog...
I was hoping that I could get an at least close positive ID for my website. Looks like it was a vain hope though LOL!
~Kim
Posted: 11 Jan 2003, 18:30
by Coryman
I have studied Scott Schaefer's paper on otocinclus and the nearest that I can get to your fish from a visuall point of view is O. hoppei
Ian
Re: Which Otocinclus am I?
Posted: 11 Mar 2015, 14:04
by Catscatfish
Just making a forum post.
Don't mind me! I also really like Otocinclus!