L081, what a find!

[Ronin]

I was doing a sweep of a lfs, and a saw a gold nugget pleco. Now these might be common in the U.S, but in canada , as far as I know, they are very rare to see. So I immediatly assumed that it would be 30-40bucks(Cdn), and was about to walk to the next tank, but then i saw the price. $19.50 !!! I was amazed so as soon as u can say L081, I ran over to the clerk and asked him to put it on hold till tomorrow since I didnt have any money on me at the time. Anyways I'm real excited and hope to have some pics later tomorrow.*SUPERSMIL

 

[FroggyFox]

Awesome!

 

[Smalltank3]

wow 19 bucks! I found a couple at my lfs and they were 30 U.S. dollars! You have a very good deal!

 

[Ronin]

I had a chat with one of the ppl that worked there and he said they got a shipment of 10 about 3-4 weeks ago. They've been really hard to sell(probably since the average person doesnt know about them), so they sold their first 4, then lowered the price to make way for new fish.

 

[bandito41]

That is awesome. I wish I could find a deal like that around here.

 

[TLH]

Wish I could find bargains like that here.All the nice fish around my area seem to have shot through the roof price wise.I saw some Sterbi Cories a while back for £5.95,this time round they were £9.95.

 

[FishGeek]

THAT AWESOME!!!! I just got my guys a zuccinni tonight!!!

 

[Ronin]

hes home !! da dada daaaaaaaa

 

[FishGeek]

Hes a little guy but still very nice. just dont crowd him and keep in mind he will out grow your tanks. Nice find!!!

 

[Toam]

I'm just down the road from you and I gotta say $19.50 is an amazing price, we gotta let locals know when we find those deals
at my LFS they can get gold nugget's when you ask, but charge $40 for em.
Is $9.99 a good price for a clown pleco out of curiosity?

 

[FishGeek]

Its alright, here for me its $7.99.

 

[kagal]

great deal around here they usually run $30-40 depending on the size

 

[cinlnk]

I have NO bloody clue what the "L" and numbers mean......please tell me? I am clueless when it comes to bottom dwellers....Not a huge fun of them I guess.

 

[wayne]

There are literally hundreds if not thousands of different catfish, with many new ones being discovered and exported/imported. L (for Loricariid catfish) numbers were started by Datz, a german magazine, as some kind of standard naming convention as they are not nearly all scientifically named, and common names fall down between countries, and when you have hundreds of species.
L numbering is not perfect (some species have several different numbers, some numbers - several species) but they do OK.

There are also C numbers for undescribed Corydoras, but their taxonomy is much less confusing than for L species.

That gold nugget looks in decent shape, and not too thin, but small, so get some meaty foods for it to eat quite quickly. It might struggle on the coarse substrate you have as they are detritus feeders, not algae, veg eaters

 

[bala_aquarium]

thats a nice fish you got there Ronin

 

[Platy_breeder]

Are Tefe Gibbiceps Pleco's(L-164) uncommon? The one I have came with my 55g tank(the person who had it had actually forgotten that he had him) but I've never seen any of them for sale around where I live.

 

[Pure]

If it truly is a L164 then yeah that is a fairly rare species of Gibby. The patterning is more spaced out and the sail fin isn't as high.

 

[Platy_breeder]

I'm not completely sure if he is that, but that's what he looked like to me. Here are a few pictures of him. The 2nd one is a bit blurry and miscolored.