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From: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria,rec.aquaria
Subject: Re: Feeding Catfish
Message-ID: <24838@gryphon.COM>
Date: 16 Jan 90 21:43:14 GMT
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
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In article <1990Jan16.060658.8570@agate.berkeley.edu> link@stew.ssl.berkeley.edu (Richard Link) writes:
>
>>The only pleco like fish I know
>>that stays small is Peckolia vittatus (or affinis, too, I guess)
>
>Aha! That's it. The Tetra Press book identified the fish as a Peckolia.
>The photo in Tetra Press is evidently the same fish described as a
>Pterygoplichthys in Riehl/Baensch.

Thats a wierd mistake to make. The Pterygoplichthys is a large
fish, chocolate brown with largish black spots. The Peckolia
is chocolate brown with cream stripes.

I recall seeing more than a few mislabeled fish in Baensch; this is
probably one of them.