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Zebra Pleco with vertical dorsal stripes

Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 2:09 am
by Finley
Hi

What do you guys make of the second fish in this post, which has almost vertical stripes on its dorsal fin instead of horizontal?
http://www.plecofanatics.com/forum/show ... hp?t=45676

Ever seen that before?!? Same species or something new?

Thanks,

Finley

Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 7:04 pm
by Zebrapl3co
Very interesting. Would be nice if there were more pictures. The fin looks a bit blurry compare to the rest of the body. I can't help but wonder if it was phoptoshopped.
If was kind of funny that they name the snub-nose zebra ultraman zebra pleco ... LOL, that just kills me.

Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 10:25 pm
by Finley
I doubt that a senior moderator would photoshop a fish.

Does anyone have any insights? I was really hoping to find lots of ZP experts on zp.com who could shed light on this...

Thanks,

Finley

Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 12:45 pm
by smithrc
insights - no :)

I believe this is just natural variation...

I had a look at ours after seeing this and one of ours has a combination of horizontal with one vertical line - making an updide down T :)

I'll try and get a pic ;)

Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 1:01 pm
by Alistair
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Have a look at one of my youngsters. This was taken when the fish was six months old. The fish is now nearly two and has devoloped quite nicely (lines have thinned and gone slightly wavy with some spotting on the flanks as well), still trying to get a new photo of it though!

Al.C

Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 1:16 pm
by Plastic Mac
Finley wrote:I doubt that a senior moderator would photoshop a fish.
No lol, he certainly wouldn't. :)

I'd imagine it's just a pattern variant, albeit a slightly more varianted version than the usual ones we see but nothing more odd that that...pretty fish though. :)

Plastic Mac

Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 1:23 pm
by John
Eye colour is of L173 :wink:

Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 10:14 am
by gecko
Plastic Mac wrote:
No lol, he certainly wouldn't. :)

Plastic Mac
Yep, I have seen the fish live in person :wink: