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• tankered Posts: 1,656 Captain

  September 2021 #2

  Brown hoplo.
  
  They are everywhere.

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• lemaymiami Posts: 4,849 Captain

  September 2021 edited September 2021 #3

  Florida has serious problems with invasives. - not only fish but also plants, birds and seemingly everything else…

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• RobertR Posts: 431 Deckhand

  September 2021 #4

  I just saw a video of a guy cast netting some at the creek off of 315 at Rodman Reservoir, one throw got him about 20 or more? of these fish. 

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• tankered Posts: 1,656 Captain

  September 2021 #5

  lemaymiami said:

  Florida has serious problems with invasives. - not only fish but also plants, birds and seemingly everything else…

  
  Let's face it....WE are invasive, and wherever we go, stuff follows us. 
  
  If the environment suits it, species will become established. Not just here, worldwide. 

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• tankered Posts: 1,656 Captain

  September 2021 #6

  Nope. Wrong. Not a pleco, it's a brown hoplo.
  
  Pay attention.

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• tankered Posts: 1,656 Captain

  September 2021 #7

  You're strange. Claim to know nothing and everything at the same time.
  
  Bottom line, that fish is NOT what is commonly known as a plecostomus.

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• Flash Posts: 12,528 AG

  September 2021 #8

  tankered said:

  You're strange. Claim to know nothing and everything at the same time.
  
  Bottom line, that fish is NOT what is commonly known as a plecostomus.

  
  But i assume the Pleco is just short for Plecostomus?
  

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• tankered Posts: 1,656 Captain

  September 2021 #9

  Flash said:

  tankered said:

  You're strange. Claim to know nothing and everything at the same time.
  
  Bottom line, that fish is NOT what is commonly known as a plecostomus.

  
  But i assume the Pleco is just short for Plecostomus?
  

  
  Yes. And both them and the hoplo are armored catfish but completely different species.
  
  I'm not sure what point this weirdo is trying to make but the fish in the OP is a hoplo. Definitely not a pleco, as he claimed. 

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• Lostconch Posts: 1,111 Officer

  September 2021 #10

  I don't care what you call them they are a pain in the tass to get out of a cast net 

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• jt904 Posts: 152 Deckhand

  September 2021 #11

  Ya they're all over the place. Ive seen hundreds of them in ponds in orlando 

  176 Key West Stealth 
  
  
  

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• AlwaysLearningMore Posts: 223 Deckhand

  September 2021 #12

  I'm pretty sure that the OP's fish is a brown hoplo.  Definitely does not look like a "Pleco".  But at the risk of muddying the waters on this topic even more, most of the fish that are reported as Pleco's are truly not Pleco's, since Plecostomus are actually not common in most of Florida.  Other similar species of suckermouth catfish are much more common and are usually misidentified as pleco.

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• tankered Posts: 1,656 Captain

  September 2021 #13

  No. It's AN armored catfish.
  
  Getting closer though.

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