Zebra Pleco with vertical dorsal stripes

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Zebra Pleco with vertical dorsal stripes

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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?

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Post 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.
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Post 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...

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Post 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 ;)
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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!

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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. :)

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Eye colour is of L173 :wink:
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Plastic Mac wrote:
No lol, he certainly wouldn't. :)

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