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Bob Mehen explains why its refreshingly different to branch out and keep more cryptic plecs.

Whats your first image of plec? Chances are its one of a large, prehistoric-looking fish, probably brown, all armour and suckermouth, lumbering around or sticking to the tank glass in search of a scrape of algae.

However, the more enlightened catfish connoisseur may see beyond and have a vision of a strikingly patterned L number cat that has taken the hobby by storm in the last decade with its striking range of colours

Graceful and delicate are words not generally associated with plecs, but the Loricariid catfish family is vast and varied, and seems to have evolved fish to fit into almost any niche in Amazonia where a sucker mouth and a body pro...