juankgigo wrote:
Thank you for helping me with the ID, I am not a fish expert
I wouldn't call myself an expert either, but I did have them in my tropical tanks back in the day... some people call them sucker fish, they clean/eat the algae off the glass for you. There are several varieties and color patterns. I like their pre-historic look of armor plating. They can grow quite large in the wild and I have seen some that were quite large in the Hillsborough River in Tampa along the shoreline one time, even though I don't think they are native... probably released from hobbyist tanks. I've seen Oscar's and other African Cichlids in the everglades as well, also not native, and as I understand it, they are becoming an invasive species and throwing off the local ecology down there.
Eric
