What kind of Pleco?

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Was sold as a Golden Spotted Butterfly Pleco? is there such a thing?

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the sucking kind.
 
Count the rays in the dorsal fin. Try to get a picture with the dorsal fin fully extended. That helps to exclude certain species at least. How old do you think it is? If still a juvi, they are even harder to ID.... at least my previous rescued pleco was, even for the experts on PlecoFanatics and PlanetCatfish... but eventually it grew up to be one of the "common pleco" species.

If you bought it as a "common pleco", read this profile which explains some of the differences... http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/species.php?species_id=88

I should add that mine looked a LOT like yours when it was smaller but grew up to look just like this...

http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/image.php?species=pterygoplichthys+pardalis&image_id=5589
 
Looks like sailfin to me but idk. The sailfins sold at my lfs look like that
 
Pterygoplichthys gibbiceps AKA sailfin pleco
 
Well it definitelyhas more than 10 rays in it's dorsal fin so Pterygoplichthys sp. looks good. Since it's still a juvi, you could browse through all the photos on the below profiles and look for juvi pictures but P. gibbiceps and P. pardalis are two "common plecos" found at pet stores... as well as a couple of other "common plecos". Here's a list of all of the Pterygoplichthys sp. listed on Planet Catfish.

http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelo...s&species_search_type=is&species=&task=Search
 
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